Now posted on the website are the shoot times for Bill’s — I think everyone got their first choice.

Also posted are the final results from Coraopolis.

The 48th ANNUAL PENNSYLVANIA J.O.A.D. STATE INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIP will be Saturday April 7th at the State Farm Show Complex in Harrisburg, PA.  You will need to register and pay for this individually.  You can find all the information and a t-shirt order form on the website, or from these links:

• State JOAD Tournament Registration
• State JOAD Tournament T-Shirts

I will be reserving a block of rooms at the Hampton Inn (30 Capital Dr., Harrisburg), and will post information about that soon.  Remember that this is also the weekend of the PSAA State Indoor Championship. Most  Falcon Archer shooters will sign up for the morning line (Saturday and Sunday) at the PSAAs, so for archery families you may choose to make a whole weekend of it.

Coraopolis has moved the date of their JOAD tournament to the weekend of February 9th, 10th, and 11th.  The original dates were March 2-4, but that is now the date for the JOAD Nationals in Harrisonburg Virginia. Please check your preferred times on our signup sheet, and make sure that your selected dates for Coraopolis still work for February 9-11.  The signup sheet can be accessed from our website.

The times for the Crowfoot tournament (Jan 27-28) are now posted on the website, or you can find it from this link.

Reminder that there is no practice tonight, but starting next week (Jan 8th) we will be practicing on Monday nights, beginning at 6:30.  Saturday practices are now over.

We will go over these things during one of the practices, but for those shooting this weekend, it would be a good idea to review these items now.

Things to Remember for Tournaments:

1. Wear khaki pants and your team shirt. If you run into an “emergency”, you can come dressed differently, just be sure to not wear jeans or camo.
2. Arrive 30-45 minutes prior to shooting time.
   • you need time to check-in, put equipment together, & listen to announcements (announcements are typically 5-10 minutes prior to start of shooting)
3. Come prepared
   • be sure you have all of your equipment and enough arrows (in your quiver, not your case)
     • 3 arrows are shot at a time, but you need to have extras in case of damage to, or loss of, vanes or nocks (4 is a minimum & 6 or more is best)
     • ALL of an archer’s arrows MUST match and have their initials on the shafts!!!
   • keep a pencil in your quiver!!!
4. Upon arrival, check in at the registration desk and put your equipment together.
   • you are to verify your merit class, age class, equipment, gender, target type/size
   • sometimes merit classes change often. if you jumped ANYTIME before the tournament (including at the last tournament) be sure to correct it at check-in
   • if you are given your scorecard at the registration desk, you are to place it at the target
5. Scoring:
   • NEVER mark or touch arrows before they are ALL called and recorded!!!
   • no less than 3 archers may score together, typical group size is 4 archers
   • double scoring is always used
   • archers decide who calls, who scores, and who observes
   • do NOT copy scores! i.e. – scorekeepers must do their own addition
   • check scores after every end, before arrows are pulled (even if the other scorekeeper doesn’t want to do this, it is very important and a rule – insist on doing it)
6. Line etiquette:
   • step to the line within the allotted time (10 seconds)
   • if you are late to the line, do not step to line if archer facing you is at full draw
   • take care not to bump those around you on the line
   • do NOT leave the line if a shooter immediately on either side of you is at full draw
7. Verbal communication and coaching on the line is NOT permitted.
   Communication must occur behind the wait line while your line is not shooting.
8. If you are unable to shoot an arrow/end due to an equipment issue, notify a coach and/or line judge. (a line judge MUST be told – a coach can do this for you – BEFORE you miss your time to shoot) If you are on the line, raise your hand to indicate a problem. The line judge will let you know to step off the line and seek help.
9. At completion of shooting, give both scorecards to the host club’s representative. They will return one of them to you.  Keep it for your records, but we will receive the scores from the host club in a few days.
10. Any questions or problems, ask a coach or line judge.

The tournament signup page for 2018 is now OPEN!  You can see it in the “Current Year Info” tab on the website.

There is one small change from last year.  Rather than typing on your time slot preference, you will see all the line times are now listed.  Just mark your preferences 1, 2, 3, and 4.  Like this:

You can mark less than 4 choices if there are some that just don’t work. Like in the sample above, I’ve only marked 3 choices.

The signup form is an open Google Doc, so edit just the line with your archer’s name.  And please don’t email out the link if you can help it.