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Tournament Report
Apr. 23rd, 2006 09:13 pmWestern Regional College Championships: Full outdoor FITA, plus elimination rounds
This was my first outdoor tournament. Ever. I barely know my sight settings for 90 meters, let alone consider my bow well-tuned. I shot a practice FITA on Thursday, and was not particularly pleased with the results. That said, I was hoping to shoot 1000 (of 1440 theoretically possible), and ended up shooting 1030 in sixth place, so I'm happy. I also got to experience olympic-style elimination rounds: You shoot against one other person, twelve arrows each, at 70 meters; higher score continues to the next round, lower score goes home. I shot my first round against a Stanford grad student, and won handily; second round (quarter-finals for the tournament) I was shooting against UCLA's best male archer, so was beaten just as handily. I did manage to surprise myself, though - of the first six arrows on the second end, five were within three inches of each other, on the edge of the 9-point ring. Unfortunately, on the second end the group moved the wrong way and got bigger, so they were my last. It speaks well for my ability to shoot under pressure, anyway, which damn will I need.
Next goal: shoot better than that at USIACs, one month away.
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This was my first outdoor tournament. Ever. I barely know my sight settings for 90 meters, let alone consider my bow well-tuned. I shot a practice FITA on Thursday, and was not particularly pleased with the results. That said, I was hoping to shoot 1000 (of 1440 theoretically possible), and ended up shooting 1030 in sixth place, so I'm happy. I also got to experience olympic-style elimination rounds: You shoot against one other person, twelve arrows each, at 70 meters; higher score continues to the next round, lower score goes home. I shot my first round against a Stanford grad student, and won handily; second round (quarter-finals for the tournament) I was shooting against UCLA's best male archer, so was beaten just as handily. I did manage to surprise myself, though - of the first six arrows on the second end, five were within three inches of each other, on the edge of the 9-point ring. Unfortunately, on the second end the group moved the wrong way and got bigger, so they were my last. It speaks well for my ability to shoot under pressure, anyway, which damn will I need.
Next goal: shoot better than that at USIACs, one month away.
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