Selby Postal League 2009

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Club members not affiliated through Arundown to GNAS can represent Arundown in the Selby League as long as they don't represent another club within the Selby League in the same season.

We now have dates for the Selby League shoots. Due to a packed summer calendar there are clashes, so all archers will not be able to attend every shoot. Please don’t think you won’t be needed as the more recurve archers that shoot the better!

May 24th
June 14th
July 5th
August 9th
September 6th
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We welcome all Arundown recurve archers to participate in this year’s tournament. Each month the top 9 scores are taken, but the more archers the better! You may find you do much better than you think and if you don’t you just won’t have your score selected that month. If you have any questions, speak to me (Richard Cobden) at the club.

Similar to the winter BA Postal, we will shoot against other clubs in our leagues but we do not actually meet. At the end of each month I will post (or email) the results to the organiser and the apposing team.

This year I have entered 3 recurve teams named Arundown A, B and C. Each month we will shoot the Selby on a given day (Summer Calendar appearing soon). At the end of every shoot the score taken from the highest three archers will make up Arundown A, then the next three Arundown B and so on.

Each team will be placed in a different league (Arundown A being highest ranked then B and so on...). Each month during the summer season we will shoot against one other team in that league. At the end of the season all teams would have competed against each other and the team with the highest number of victories wins that league. If two teams have the same score, the one with the highest number of points wins overall.

To complicate matters, each league has what is known as a Threshold Score. If all three archers score over the threshold you are penalised and points are deducted. This balances each league and is in place in case a team is placed in too lower a league. If we are placed in the correct leagues, we should not hit the threshold score. Last season was our first Selby and our leagues were too low for us and we often hit the threshold. This year our rank will be based on last years performance, although I have suggested a score for Arundown C as we rarely had a full three archers last year for C.

The round is a Short Metric which consists of 3 Dozen at 50 meters & 3 Dozen @ 30 meters on a 80cm face. For those who don't have a 30m & 50m sight mark, make sure you get one soon. I suggest you turn up at the start on a Friday or Sunday session and ask if you can get targets set up at these distances (or set one at 50m and then move it forward). Even better, shoot a full Short Metric round for practice.