RULES & GUIDELINES for 2011/2012

      Round to be Shot

·         Bray I (i.e. 30 arrows at 20 yards at a 40cm FITA Face) under GNAS Rules.

·         The Bray I Round is an Indoor Round, but it may be shot Outdoors.  

Club League Secretaries

·         Clubs must appoint a League Secretary whose familiar with using Email and the Internet.

·         Each Club’s League Secretary duties will include:-

1.    to register all the their club's teams, ensuring the correct payment is sent to the League Organiser.

2.    to gather together their Club's scores, work out their Club’s Teams and submit them correctly each month not later then the end of the 3^rd day of the following month.

3.      to communicate back to their Club, the League's Divisions, Fixtures, Results and Latest League Tables. This can done by encouraging their members to use the Cheshire Archery Association’s Website – www.cheshirearchery.org and following the link to the Leagues Website by clicking on the Winter Leagues Button and/or printing off the Divisions, Fixtures, Results and the Latest League Tables for posting on their club’s Notice Boards/Websites.

4.      Distribute any Medals won by their Club’s Teams sent to them by the League Organiser.

 Registration of Teams in the League 

• Club’s League Secretaries must submit their Clubs Teams with Bow Type (Compound, Longbow or Recurve) and Estimated Team Score (if a new team for the 2011/2012 season). This Estimated Team score or the aggregate team score from the 2010/2011 Season is going to be used to decide which Division a team competes in so please to be fair to other Club's do not under estimate your team's score.  

• Club’s must register their interest and each team’s details via the website (‘Register a Team’). Once the League Organiser receives the Registration, he will confirm your details via Email and also supply the Name and Postal Address to send the Entry Fees for the teams that have been register to.  Once the correct fees have been received each Club League Secretary will be confirmed by Email and also be allocated a Userid  & password to allow them access to the Submit A Team Score page.

• Registration of teams (including payment) must be completed by no later than 15th October 2011 in order for the Divisions and Fixtures to be calculated. Once these have been calculated they will be posted on the Website as well as a copy being sent to each Club’s League Secretary ready for the 1^st November, the start of the matches.

Team Make up

• The estimate Team score or the aggregate Team score from 2010/2011 season score will be used to determine what Divisions Teams will be placed.
• Separate Divisions for Compound, Longbow and Recurve.
• There is no limit on how many teams a Club can enter into each of the Leagues. However, there maybe a restriction depending on how many teams register and how many Divisions can be formed from the teams registered. Final Decision will lie with the League Organiser.  
• Team Sizes: For Compound and Recurve Teams - 3 Archers per Team and for Longbow - 2 Archers per Team.
• Teams are made up of each club’s top scoring rounds – If more than one team is entered from a Club for a Bow type then the Team is made up of the top 3 scores for that month and the B team is made up of the 4^th, 5^th and 6^th top scores for that month and so on.  
• Archers can shoot as many rounds as they like each month, submitting only their top scoring round to their Club’s League Secretary for assessment.
• An Archer may shoot in one or more of the Leagues, but can only represent their club once each month in each off these leagues.

    Matches

• 5 Monthly matches starting in November 2011, ending in March 2012.
• Points will be awarded as follows: WIN - 3 points  DRAW - 2 points  LOSS - 1 point.
• If a Team fails to submit a Team score then please Submit a Team Score of NIL with 'DID NOT SHOOT' as the first Archer Name as this useful for the Organiser to know.
• To gain any points a team score must have at least one score in a team.
• All scores MUST to be submitted online via website. The County League Organiser will confirm receiving each Clubs teams score. That way we can practically eliminate invalid submissions.
• An extra Point will be awarded each month in each division for the highest individual score in that month.
• At the end of the season (after the March Matches) a team has managed to win all their 5 matches then 4 extra Bonus Points are awarded to that team to ensure that they win their respective Division.
• Scores from clubs for each month’s matches must be submitted no later than the end of 3^rd day of the following month and it is each Club’s League Secretary responsibility to ensure the County League Organiser has received these scores.
• Where a Team's fixture is set as a BYE they must shoot and submit a Team Score to gain the maximum points. 
• At the end of season, after the March Matches, 4 Bonus points will be awarded to the team winning ALL of their 5 monthly matches , should it be necessary, to ensure they finish in 1st place in their Division.

    Payment

• Entry Fee for each Team is £5.00.
• Payment for each team registered to compete in the league must be received by the Organiser by 7th October, 2011.
• Cheques for Entry Fees must be made out to 'Cheshire Archery Association'.  

    Awards

• Medals will be awarded to the top team in each of the divisions in each of the leagues - A Medal for every Archer who has shot for the winning Team over the 5 months the league has been operating. 
• Medals will be presented to the Winning Club League Secretaries at the May 2012 County Meeting. All Club League Secretaries are invited to attend this meeting.

    General

• All communications is via Email with exception of the payment of Entry Fee.
• The League Organiser has the final decision with matters concerning these Leagues.