The National Indoor Championships is quickly approaching on July 10-11. The Tournament regularly attracts over 750 archers from across the country making it Australia’s largest target archery event.
As an indoor event, archers aren’t impacted by environmental conditions such as rain and wind, which enables multiple venues across Australia to host the tournament at the same time in different locations. Regional Governing Bodies host events in their area which increases the accessibility of the tournament as archers don’t need to travel as far of take time off from work/university/school and other commitments.
Indoor is also a great equalizer in archery. As it is shot at 18m, archers don’t need high poundage in order to reach the target, unlike many outdoor distances. That means you’ll often get some junior archers outranking their open counterparts.
Enter A Team
Open Team Championships
The Open Team Championships will be contested in the following categories:
- Youth: Recurve and Compound
- Open: Recurve, Compound and Barebow recurve, Barebow compound and longbow
- Master/Veteran/Veteran Plus: Recurve and Compound
Team members may be Archery Australia and non-Archery Australia members. There is no limit to the number of teams that can be entered in each open category.
A person can only enter once into a team for each category.
Click here for the online entry form for Open Team to enter their team details.
Changes to Open Teams can be made up until midnight 7th July 2021by sending an email to amaxworthy@archery.org.au
More details available here. Register your Open Team here.
RGB Senior Team Championships
Each RGB can enter 1 Senior Recurve Team and 1 Senior Compound Team.
Each team shall be made up to 4 athletes, who may be male or female from any age class with a minimum of 1 female and 1 male archer per team. Only 1 team can be entered for both Recurve and Compound (1 for each division) by RGBs. Team entries are due to Archery Australia by 11:59pm AEST time on 5 July 2021.
The top three scores will be used to compile a team score
Please contact your RGB for how to enter a team.
More details available here.
RGB Youth Team Championships
Each RGB can enter 1 Youth Recurve Team and one Youth Compound Team. Each team MUST be made up to 4 athletes, who may be male or female and as per the age class listed below.
Only 1 team in each Division of Recurve and Compound shall be entered by each RGB. Team entries are due to Archery Australia by 5pm local time on 1 July 2021.
The top three scores will be used to compile a team score
Team requirements:
- 4 members in a team – combination in the team MUST be 1 x Cub, 1 x Intermediate, 1 x Cadet and 1 x U/20
- If an archer is selected in a State’s (Senior) Team, they cannot participate in the Youth Team event
- Archers must take the age place in the team which for which they are participating as an individual. To ensure there is no confusion, a cadet aged archer shooting as an individual in the Cadet Division cannot take the U20 place in the State Team. However, a Cadet aged archer shooting as an individual in the U20 division can take the U20 age spot in the state Team (but not the Cadet spot).
More details available here.
Explaining Indoor
All competitors will shoot a total for 120 arrows (total score of 1200) across 2 rounds:
- Double Australian Indoor Round 18m (Vegas style) (2 x 30 arrow rounds)
- Single World Archery Indoor 18m round (60 arrows)
The Australian round must be shot first. Archers will shoot 3 arrows per end with a 2-minute time limit.
Target Faces
Archers may choose to shoot either a single face (40cm) or a triple spot face (vertical for the WA round and triangle for the Australian round).
Scoring
Single faces are scored from 10 points to 1 point. Triple faces from 10 points to 6 points and any arrow outside of the scoring zone scored as a miss. For a triple face, archers can choose to shot the targets in any order but for scoring, there must only be 1 arrow in each target.
In the Double Australian Indoor Round, every archers scores 10s and Xs but the Xs are only used for countbacks on ties.
In the WA round, Sighted Compound are always aiming for the inner 10 (if the venue is not using the special Compound Indoor face). Everyone else, including Barebow Compound, are aiming for the whole 10 ring for a 10 score and any Xs scored as 10s.
Target Allocations
In Indoor events, 4 archers will be allocated to shoot on 1 target. Two archers will shoot, then the next two, before all going forward to score. When given their target allocations, archers will also be given a place that decides their target position i.e. A, B, C or D. In terms of rotation, AB will shoot together and then CD.
In both the AA and WA rounds, there must be 4 targets per target butt. Part of the challenge of the Indoor round is shooting at the correct face. Even if there are only 2 or 3 archers allocated to the lane, there must still be 4 separate faces attached.
Shooting Order
When shooting in the WA Indoor, the order of shooting will rotate each end, as follows:
AB – CD, CD – AB, AB – CD, CD – AB, etc
For the Double Australian Indoor Round, the archers on the lower targets will always shoot first.
After the first 30 scoring arrows the archers will swap target positions – archers shooting on the top will move their targets to the lower positions and the archers shooting on the lower targets will move their targets to the upper target positions.
Target Position
When shooting a single face or triangle three spot target face, which are placed 4 to a target butt, Archer A shoots at the top left target with Archer B shooting at the top right target. Archer C will shoot at the bottom left target and Archer D at the bottom right target.
When shooting vertical triple faces, the four vertical strips are placed side by side and Archer A shoots at the first column from the left while Archer B shoots at the third column from the left. Archer C the second column and Archer D the fourth column.
Shooting Order
For the Double Australian Indoor Round, the archers on the lower targets will always shoot first.
After the first 30 scoring arrows the archers will swap target positions – archers shooting on the top will move their targets to the lower positions and the archers shooting on the lower targets will move their targets to the upper target positions.
COVID-19 Restrictions
Currently the National Indoors are still going ahead as planned, however, we are currently reviewing every states and territories COVID restrictions in relation to Community Sport and we will post any updates on the AA website regarding this.
To enter, please visit your Regional Governing Bodies website for venue locations and registration information.
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