Unofficial UK Slalom BBS

Problem is that a spin only worked well if (a) you stayed close to the downstream pole of 12 and (b) you did the spin between the wave and the downstream pole. Anyone starting early/going wide could be carted off to the far side of the channel - which made the entry into 13 even slower. A very subtl...

For me, two stand out today (Sunday July 29th): Helen Reeves' Gold Medal for Diplomatic Persistence as she eventually managed to persuade her fellow commentator (who has been doing it for years) that the Qualification is now on best of two runs, not aggregation of those runs - after he had announced...

Well, it didn't take long for the timeliness/accuracy conflict to crop up (and I am sure that it is not the first time this year) On Saturday 14th a KIM2 paddler at the Washburn saw he had 811 points, and calculated that he needed to come 2nd on Sunday to get promoted. He did so, and assumed that he...

Peter says that the Committee want official results to be 'both accurate and timely'. Well, we are a long way from that, given that at present no official results are ever published: certainly not timely, and who knows if they are accurate? Problem is, 'both accurate and timely' obscures the questio...

I have a 4-metre boat in as new condition - supports 13.5 stone comfortably, whatever that is in Kilos - free to a good home Problem: I will not be at Fairnilee: Washburn Div 1 is my next destination; but in any case, having been out with injury for 4 years, I do not have a roof-rack for my present ...

I repeat what I said last night: without official results there cannot be an official ranking list: and there are no official results

And we need something that addresses the questions raised at double events

Sorry, people, but it is much worse than that Not only are there no official ranking lists until the end of the season, there are no official results for an individual event either - and whereas the official ranking list is published at the end of the season, official results for a particular event ...

I have just recalculated the 2012 results the way they were calculated in 2008. The point I made above (7th/7 gets the same points as 7th/21) causes problems: but the biggest problem comes with boats not entered: in 2008 they were given number paddled +1 in 10-boat classes, +2 in 20 boat classes, an...

Ken Unfortunately when I decided that my strategic course was run I ditched about half a ton of paper results going back into the 70's. But I do not remember a system which gave the 5th C2 in a class of max 10 boats the same points as the 5th KIM in a class of max 30 boats (although it seems to have...

The present ranking system has a bigger flaw which would not be solved by rolling rankings - Prem paddlers (indeed all paddlers) are only compared against other Prem paddlers (or the paddlers in their division) - not against all paddlers. Some Prem paddlers have not had to measure themselves against...

Robin 1) Not as you seem to suggest a new system invented to produce a particular result - that is how the system worked back in the early 90's when I first became involved in the Inter-Regionals 2) Each category winner gets 30 points - last one in each category (when all teams enter) gets almost no...

Such a resolution was proposed at the 2011 ACM (by Kingston & Ribble Canoe Clubs), requiring events to be cardless from 2013, giving a year to work out how to do it However this was effectively blocked when the Executive put in a motion, which was passed, saying that any club wishing to run cardless...

Simon/Dave

With respect - Harrogate Knaresborough Tadcaster is pretty much Lower Wharfe country