This year 35 British archers have travelled over to take part in The Vegas Shoot, to join over 3800 other archers.
The Vegas Shoot, for those that don't know, is the biggest indoor competition on the circuit. It attracts the best of the best, Olympic Champions, World Champions, compound and recurves, barebow and crossbow alike.
There are two main divisions of the competition, the Championship, and the Flights.
The competition consists of three days of shooting 30 arrows each day at a ‘Vegas face' (pictured below). For recurves, it's normal WA18 scoring, for compound, they get recurve scoring (with the recurve 10).
Saturday night is the World Indoor Series Final, with the first 60 arrows of the Vegas Shoot counting towards final rankings. Archers have to have shot at three of the events, including Vegas in order to be able to qualify for the finals. The top eight archers of each division then shoot in head to head style matches, until the winners are crowned.
After the first 30 arrows of Vegas Shoot, just one-third of the way through, let's have a recap of where we are!
Championship Compound Open
53rd Chris White - 300
107th James Mason - 299
240th - Alan Kingsley-Dobson - 294
260th - Philip Kingsley-Dobson - 275
Championship Compound Female
19th - Bayley-Rose Sargeant - 298
26th - Ella Gibson - 298
32nd - Lucy O'Sullivan - 297
Championship Recurve Male
56th - Gavin Watson - 245
Bowhunter Flights
99th - Matthew Montgomery - 287
155th - Andrew Maybin - 279
Compound Flights
51st - Tom Duncan - 299
65th - Carl Richards - 299
197th - Dean Hamilton - 296
264th - Lee Miller - 295
320th - Adam Ravenscroft - 295
371st - Jonathan Maher - 294
525th - Dean Thornton - 291
639th - Colin Geenes - 289
695th - Verity Gray - 288
733rd - Francis Rocha - 287
767th - Cecile Midrouillet - 286
895th - Philipa Lowe - 282
971st - Kevin Cassidy - 279
1081st - Victoria Duncan - 274
1136th - Angela Perrett - 272
1231st - Charlie Cassidy - 262
Recurve Flights
54th - Colin Simpson - 273
59th - Chris Marsh - 272
70th - Sophie Meering - 270
157th - Kevin Macey - 257
253rd - Daniel Sims - 234
Recurve Barebow Flights
55th - Peter Lowe - 235
66th - Simon Kennedy - 230
83rd - Heath Perrett - 224
Compound Youth Female
26th - Sinead Byrne - 287
Tomorrow night is the World Indoor Series Finals, and the first 60 arrows of this event are used as a qualification to award points towards the finalists.
Full results can be found here: https://www.ianseo.net/Details.php?toId=6284
