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Points Score Contest Rules

The rules are based on the Association of Surfing professional's competition rules and are a standard used by most clubs in Australia.

The contest is made up of two rounds of 20 minute heats and a final.
Your best 2 waves are used to calculate your overall position in the heat.
Only the score from the 2 heats count towards the end of year total, mind you it still feels good to win a final.

What about the famous Bondi Drop In?
The rule for drop-ins/interference is now that you leave their highest scoring wave alone, providing it isn't the wave that the drop-in occurred on, and you halve their second highest scoring wave.
So if a surfer, gets four waves and scores a 7.0, 3.2, 4.4, 6.6 where the 4.4 wave was the one they dropped in on. That wave score would now revert to Zero, and would only be considered in the case of a count-back.
They would have thier second highest scoring wave (6.6) halved = 3.3, so thier cumulative score for that heat would be 7.0 + (6.6/2) = 10.3
This rule was changed a while back by surfing Australia because it was felt that sometimes a drop-in or interference can be genuinely accidental, and it was felt that including that Zero score in the total was a bit tough.
As it stand now, loosing half of your second-best wave is still going to make it hard to win anything, unless you are a cut or two above the other surfers in your heat. So to summarise the rule change, the tallier counts the highest wave score and halves the second highest wave score.

At the start of each Points Score Contest, contestants are randomly selected for the heats in round one. When round one is over the contestants are grouped with surfers who got the same result as them in heat 1. All the 1st surf together, all the 2nd surf together and so on.

	The green flag goes up for the first heat at 8.00am sharp. Each heat starts when this flag is raised, regardless of whether all the contestants are ready or not.
	The yellow flag goes up when there is 5 min left in the heat. Contestants in the next heat who are not already in the water should get a wriggle on. If you are already waiting in the water for your heat to start please be patient and do not try to catch any waves yet.
	Times up. No waves caught after this flag is raised will be scored. If your heat is over remove your identifying rash vest and make your way in so the next heat can have a fair go.

1st	place in a heat earns you	6	points
2nd	place in a heat earns you	5	points
3rd	place in a heat earns you	4	points
4th	place in a heat earns you	3	points
5th	place in a heat earns you	2	points
6th	place in a heat earns you	1	points

For example, if you came 3rd in heat 1 and 1st in heat 2 your total score for that Points Score Contest will be 4 + 6 = 10.
Your highest 8 contest scores are added up and are used at the end of the year to calculate your overall position within your age group.

To make the final of a Points Score Contest, you must have come 1st in both rounds or 1st in one round and 2nd in another. Final's places are limited so only the highest scoring contestants will make it in.

Judging

You judge the heat that starts two heats before yours. e.g. if you are in heat 3, you judge heat 1, heat 4 will judge heat 2, heat 5 will judge heat 3, and so on.
If you have not judged before do not panic there are lots of experienced judges who are happy to help you learn. Everybody is required to judge in order to keep it fair. Judging heats will also help you to understand what the judges look for in a ride and this in turn will benefit you in your heat.

Judging Tips
The point scoring system is 0 - 10, broken into one-tenth increments.
Use the following five scoring categories:

Bad wave	no manoeuvres or minor manoeuvre with little or no control	0.2 to 2.0
Poor wave	minor manoeuvre or basic manouvre with control	2.1 to 4.0
Average wave	basic manoeuvres 1 major and minors with control	4.1 to 6.0
Good wave	radical major manoeuvres with speed, control and power	6.1 to 8.0
Excellent wave	radical major manoeuvres with speed, control, power with elements of progressive committes surfing	8.1 to 10

Start the heat using whole and half points as much as possible Judge the manouevres not the wave or the length of ride.

Points to consider in judging longboard heats:

How well were the manoeuvres connected together? Did the surfer walk foot over foot along the board or did they shuffle?
Are the surfers toes really hanging over or are they back from the nose?
Has the surfer used the whole length of their surfboard? Compare outside manoeuvres to inside manoeuvres.
Are they major or minor manoeuvres? (Major - hang ten and hang five, walking foot over foot, re-entries, cutbacks, floaters, tubes and cover ups Minor - Cheater/stretch five, shuffling along the board, top turns, fades, head dips, spinners - 360' )
Compare take off areas and compare how deep the surfer was at the initial point of take-off
Consider how the surfer utilised the wave
Consider the ability of the surfer to make sections and whether the manoeuvres were functional in doing so.
Did the surfer actually complete the manoeuvre and with control?
What did the surfer complete before falling?
Don't be fooled by tricks (eg. head stands) or arched backs.
Judge the real manoeuvres
Most importantly the rule book states "long boarders will be judged on a 50% - 50% combination of traditional and modern manoeuvres with control being the major factor"

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