a)
Profile of the World Festival Series
b) World Festival Series events 2010
c) Past events
a)
Profile of the IRF World Festival Series
Here follows a short outline of what the IRF World Festival Series is. Countries
bidding to hold one of these events should bear these points in mind when
completing their bid document:
- Name
= World Festival Series (or World Rafting Series in non rafting circles). Each event
is then called the XXXX Rafting Festival, eg Katun Rafting Festival, Gore
Rafting Festival, Nile Rafting Festival,
etc.
- Initially
there will be 4 events a year. One race at least in each region: Americas,
Australasia, Europe/Russia/Baltics, Africa.
- Each
event must be open to anyone from any country and there is no qualification
procedure other than the paddlers must be able to paddle the grade of river
that the event is to be held on.
- The
event should ideally follow IRF rules and Regulations.
- It
is an event that people who enjoy travelling and competing in rafting can
focus on and know it is going to be a good race in a fun location.
- For
the local teams it is great exposure to other teams and rafters
- At
this early stage it is not about the media and hyping the events but about
getting as many teams from as far and wide as possible.
- This
Series will allow 4 races a year to be highlighted in the international
rafting community by the IRF. Later on this number may be increased to 6.
- One
event per region, awarding it to the event that satisfies the IRF's profile
for the World Festival Series the best.
- A
point system will be introduced from the start – the team with the highest
points over all events wins! This will encourage teams to try to get to as
many of the World Festival Series events as possible.
Point system for winning the Series.
At each event teams will get points according to where they place overall.
The points awarded will be:- 100 for 1st , 90 for 2nd,
80 for 3d, 68 for 4th and then all teams down to 32 get minus 2
points. Under this system 32nd receives 12 points and all
subsequent teams can receive 10 points.
At the end of the Series each team’s points
are totalled up to get the Series winner.
b)
World
Festival Series
events 2010
Bids are open for 2010
c) Past events and Rankings
2006 – Katun – Russia -
Results
2008
- Nagara-gawa - Japan - Results
2009 -
Nisava - Serbia -
Results
2009 - Argentina - Results
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