ASCI Friday Night Fun: IR Giant Slalom 6/20

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Yes this is another plug for the Friday Night Fun Series – Immersion Research Giant Slalom July 20th

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Giant Slalom

If you are planning on coming to ASCIi for the Close Boat Nationals, consider coming on July 20 to the Giant Slalom Race. It will be the first time gates will be available on the course (gates will be up for the week before Nationals too). The timing system that will be used for Nationals will be in use as well. The Giant Slalom Race will be held on the upper more difficult section of the course.

So what is Giant Slalom?

Its our attempt to spice up things and make slalom more accessible to more people. To that end, there are classes fop boats under 8' 6", plastic boats over that length, a ducky class, and a slalom boat class. These are then divided by boat type, gender, and experience/skill level.

Format:

A head-to-head, knock-out format with parallel courses resulting in 2 boats racing directly against each other. Each racer gets a run on each course with combined time and penalties determining who goes on to the next round. Penalty points will be given for hitting a gate (1 second) or missing a gate (10 seconds).

If we have a large number of registrants we may have to add a qualifying round to keep the event running within the time available due to light. If numbers are lower we may add a consolation bracket to race back into the main competition.

The courses will be roughly 300 yards long (from the pool through adjustable feature "A"). It will have no more than 11 gates and either no up streams or 2 up streams (a right and a left) in each course (I'm working on the specific course layout still).

It will likely be hung using a single color for each course regardless of upstream or down stream. Also, to ensure fair courses, they will likely cross each other at least once. Runs should be right around 60 seconds in length.

Schedule

Registration 5:00 - 6:30
Course opens for practice at 6:00
Athletes meeting at 6:30
First runs start at 7:00

Any questions please post or email me directly at:

westernmddem@gmail.com

Nathan Blatchley
Yough Paddling Club President