GRAW Team Events
A few years ago Team events were introduced into the GRAW matches. The objective was to encourage clubs to come along and enter some of the events with that 4th person who maybe would not have entertained coming along by themselves but would come to make a club team up.
After a fairly slow start the matches started to get fairly popular and then all of a sudden over the course of a season (last season – 2012) have essentially died a death.
A number of questions?
- What is the reason?
- Was 2012 a blip?
- Are their too many team events, too few, wrong events?
- Is the definition of a club team too loose?
- Are to many well known ‘X class’ teams putting off others entering? Does some sort of handicap system need to be employed to encourage shooters of any ability to compete on equal footing?
- Is a 4 person team to heavy on numbers – should they be pairs or teams of three?
- Has the novelty just worn off?
- Any other reasons?
Decisions will have to be made fairly soon because if nobody is going to enter we may as well pull them from the peripheral meetings (that means SAW) and just keep them maybe for the Phoenix. Appetite even at the Nationals last year seemed lacklustre.
Comment back, let me know, email me, Tweet me, Facebook me – whatever… Otherwise I’ll be making this decision myself and I’ll probably get it wrong. Please don’t tell me I told you so after the event.
Current 4 person team matches
- 25m Precision GRSB
- 25m Precision GRCF
- Timed & Precision One GRSB
- Timed & Precision One GRCF
- Timed & Precision One SG
- Multi-Target GRSB
- Multi-Target GRCF
- 1500 GRSB
- 1500 GCRF
- Advancing Target GRSB
- Advancing Target GRCF
