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Bridgnorth Regatta - 8th June 2013

Last Updated on Tuesday, 21 May 2013 23:26

Regatta Poster

This year's event will take place on 8th June 2013.

The Severn challenge this is a fun event and can be entered on the day...it is not on BROE. please email us to reserve a place 

BRC is pleased to announce that we are keeping the round-robin regatta format that has been so well recieved in recent years. This will be used on all our events, giving crews at least two races, guaranteed, and eliminates straight finals.

We will update this page with information as we have it.

We will be offering many non-qualifying primary events, for those new to the sport or just looking for a fun race, and we are adding the new 'Severn Challenge Cup' for the best mixed crews to battle it out. We will also be offering qualifying events for the more experienced crews to fight for more than just our lovely pottery pots.

Our Events

See our poster for full information.

Primary Events - for Novices and Junior maidens

1 = Morning Division

2 = Midday Division

3 = Afternoon Division

Those new to the sport can enter our primary events. Winning these won't give you any rowing points, only one of our handmade pottery pots. Primary events will be open to novices and juniors who have not yet won a qualifying event. Designed to give those new to the sport their first experience of competition, you can't have points to enter these, and also won't receive a point for winning these events.

Qualifying events - up to IM2

1 = Morning Division

2 = Midday Division

3 = Afternoon Division

We will offer events up to IM2 status across the regatta. These are qualifying but our round robin format guarantees at least two races each (even if you lose the first race), and no straight finals...there are no 'easy points' at Bridgnorth Regatta.

Seven Challenge Cup - open mixed

All clubs are invited to put their best mixed 4s and 8s crews into the open 'severn challenge cup'. No status crew is too high or low, as everyone gets at least two races (there is no risk of being knocked out in an early round at our regatta). This is a fun event, and like all other mixed events in our regatta, will be non-qualifying.

Our Course

All events take place over our 535m course:

Event Format

Due to the popularity of Bridgnorth regatta in recent years we have adopted a format which guarantees two races for each crew, and allows us to give the most crews an opportunity to race. The events will run in the following way:

• Format A: In small events (up to 4 crews), each crew will race two others. The crew with the most wins will win the event.
• Format B: In larger events (5-8 crews), the event will be be divided into two groups. Crews in each group will race each other, as in format A. The winners of each group will face each other in a final.
• Format C: In really large events (9 or more crews) we will split the event in half and award pots to the winner of each half. Each event half will run in either format A or B, depending on number of crews.

In the case where no winner can be decided by number of wins, the crew with the fastest winning time will be declared the winner. Losing times do not count, so it is still possible to win an event after losing your first race (likewise, do not take it easy after winning in the first round).

See Race Examples for clarification on our event format

We will always try to find crews to create an event with 3 or more entries, but in the rare occasion we need to run two-crew events, the two crews crews will race each other once on each side of the river and the crew that wins twice will win the event (or failing this, the fastest time will win).

Masters events

In previous years, we have found masters entries can be spread across many events, with only a few events reaching enough entries to run. We encourage all masters entries and will do our best to accommodate them, however, Masters crews may wish to co-ordinate entries with other clubs to guarantee a race.

UPDATE 01 June 2012 We welcome doubling up of masters entries and will endeavour to schedule events to make this possible. Please contact us to do this as the online entry system does not allow this

Entry Notes

If your crews have any preferences on rowing up or merging with other events please use the notes field when entering using the Online Entry system - we will take this into account in our draw.

Draw

The Draw will be held on Sunday 3^rd June commencing at 9am at Bridgnorth RC, Severn Park, Bridgnorth.

Last year

Results

Last years photos [taken by CountryStyle]