Local Leagues

There are a number of local leagues that CTRA pariticipates in across the Indoor and Outdoor season each year.

Andy Harris League

The Andy Harris League is an indoor competition run every year for clubs in Essex and Suffolk. Teams are made up of 5 archers with the Andy Harris round being a short distance 15 yard round on a 40cm target. Each archer shooting 12 ends of 3 arrows for a maximum score of 360. Each month during the season a team has a virtual match against a team from another club. There are several divisions within the league so that each team has a manageable number of matches. Currently CTRA has 3 teams participating. If you wish to participate make sure you have a chat with our Leagues Officer.

Bray League

The Bray League is an indoor competition run every year for clubs in Essex and Suffolk. Teams are made up of 5 archers shooting a standard Bray I round. Each month during the season a team has a virtual match against a team from another club. There are several divisions within the league so that each team has a manageable number of matches. Currently CTRA has 3 teams participating. If you wish to participate make sure you have a chat with our Leagues Officer. As an official round if you shoot well enough you may be able to use your scores to contribute towards a Classification.

Albion League

The Albion League is an outdoor competition run every year for clubs in Essex and Suffolk. Teams are made up of 8 archers shooting an Albion round with the best 5 scores counting on the day. Each month during the season a team will have a home or away match against another club. Currently there is a single division and CTRA has a team representing us. If you wish to participate make sure you have a chat with our Leagues Officer. As an official round if you shoot well enough you may be able to use your scores to contribute towards a Classification.

Windsor League

The Windsor League is an outdoor competition run every year for clubs in Essex and Suffolk. Teams are made up of 8 archers shooting a Windsor round with the best 5 scores counting on the day. Each month during the season a team will have a home or away match against another club. Currently there is a single division and CTRA has a team representing us. If you wish to participate make sure you have a chat with our Leagues Officer. As an official round if you shoot well enough you may be able to use your scores to contribute towards a Classification.

Tournaments

CTRA host an indoor and outdoor tournament each year. During the indoor season we host the ECAA Indoor WA18 and during the outdoor season we host a WA70m tournament

ECAA Indoor WA18 Tournament

CTRA host the ECAAs annual Indoor WA18 tournament. This is a World Record Status event run over a weekend with multiple sessions. For full details and booking look here.

CTRA Double 720

CTRA host a Double 720 every summer. This is an individual competition where competitors shoot one of the WA rounds (WA70/60/50) and have the option to shoot the same round twice (once in each session).

We have collated the following useful information for archers at all levels.

• Archery Rounds
  A guide to the various Target Archery rounds and scoring. >>>
  
  
• Archery Classifications
  Archery Classifications are a way of recognising your level of achievement. Classification tables exist for Imperial and Metric rounds, and show the necessary score levels required for each round. >>>
  
  

Recently GB Archery has introduced a new series of classifications for both Outdoor and Indoor archery. Both Indoor and Outdoor classifications are based around 3 tiers of Classifications, Archer, Bowman and Master Bowman. Within these tiers there are sub-levels illustrated in the table below. The new classifications replaced the old classifications during the 2023 outdoor season for the Outdoor classifications and the 2023/24 indoor season for the Indoor Classifications.

Generally each tier requires a certain number of arrows to be shot to qualify e.g. Indoor Archer level requires 10 dozen arrows rather than a certain number of rounds. These can be across a number of different rounds as long as the total number of arrows shot across the rounds reaches the number required. As an example, a Portsmouth round and Worcester are both 5 dozen arrows, an archer who has shot one of each will have reached the threshold for the Indoor Archer tier of 10 dozen arrows.

The second requirement is to is to achieve each a certain level of scoring within the rounds, these are based on the handicap level assigned to the rounds. The exact handicap score required is the same across different rounds but varies depending on the archers gender, bowstyle and age. GB Archery have published a number of documents that break this down. Its recommended to have a look at the relevant page for your categort and style which will list the scores/handicaps required for different rounds for the different classifications.

The third requirement is the level of event that the scores are achieved at, Archer level is any event, Bowman has to be a competitive event and Master Bowman requires the rounds to be shot at an official Record Status event.

The fourth requirement only applies to the Outdoor classifications, and is that the rounds shot must be at longer distances or prestige rounds to achieve the higher tiers. For example Men (non-Senior or Junior) shooting a Windsor round the highest classification that can be achieved is a Bowmen 3rd Class. The Bowmen 2nd Class would require an 80 yard round and Bowmen 1st Class a 100 yards round.

The prestige rounds part of this requirement applies to the Master Bowmen Tier where rounds from the York/Hereford/Bristol, WA1440 and WA720 families need to be shot.

The old outdoor classification badges

And some of the new ones...

In Archery tournaments, and often during practice, we shoot what we refer to as a 'Round'. The tables below show the various rounds including the distances and number of dozen arrows shot per distance. For example, if we shoot an Albion round we shoot 3 dozen arrows at 80 yards, 3 dozen at 60 yards and then 3 dozen at 50 yards. This means we shoot 36 arrows at each distance, 108 arrows in total. As an Albion round is an imperial round with each arrow scoring up to 9 points, the maximum score will be 972.

Imperial Outdoor Rounds

5 Zone Scoring  - 9 (gold), 7 (red), 5 (blue), 3 (black), 1 (white)

Imperial Indoor Rounds

10 Zone Scoring  - 10 (inner gold), 9 (outer gold), 8 (inner red), 7 (outer red), 6 (inner blue), 5 (outer blue), 4 (inner black), 3 (outer black), 2 (inner white), 1 (outer white)

Special Indoor Rounds

Metric Outdoor Rounds

10 Zone Scoring  - 10 (inner gold), 9 (outer gold), 8 (inner red), 7 (outer red), 6 (inner blue), 5 (outer blue), 4 (inner black), 3 (outer black), 2 (inner white), 1 (outer white)

Metric Indoor Rounds

10 Zone Scoring  - 10 (inner gold), 9 (outer gold), 8 (inner red), 7 (outer red), 6 (inner blue), 5 (outer blue), 4 (inner black), 3 (outer black), 2 (inner white), 1 (outer white)

Special Indoor Rounds