I am new to archery having taken up recurve as a middle-aged hobby two years ago. Right now I'm 'first class' hoping to get to bowman this season, although I have yet to shoot any bowmen scores.
The point I would like to make is that simply by turning up to a few shoots locally I will probably end the season ranked in the top 250 or so nationally. This is nonsensical.
Surely it would be better to have a best scores system (as they are now doing for barebow and longbow) plus rankings for the tier1/ tier2 H2H shoots?
Best score rankings have the huge advantage of actually being meaningful to any normal archer (the current ranking system does work at the pointy end i.e. demi-gods only). Also Imperial shoots would become more relevant. And you could easily extend it into the indoor season for year-round interest. And it would encourage more people to compete in the smaller under-subscribed comps.
The point I would like to make is that simply by turning up to a few shoots locally I will probably end the season ranked in the top 250 or so nationally. This is nonsensical.
Surely it would be better to have a best scores system (as they are now doing for barebow and longbow) plus rankings for the tier1/ tier2 H2H shoots?
Best score rankings have the huge advantage of actually being meaningful to any normal archer (the current ranking system does work at the pointy end i.e. demi-gods only). Also Imperial shoots would become more relevant. And you could easily extend it into the indoor season for year-round interest. And it would encourage more people to compete in the smaller under-subscribed comps.