Field Shooters Challenge: Spring, April 26 & 27
Location: Ellensburg, WA
Shooters: 32
Round Count:100-250
Cost: $150 includes t-shirt
Caliber: Any Standard bolt face caliber, NO MAGNUMS!! (TRUST ME YOU WON'T NEED OR WANT ONE!)
*No Restriction on bolt or semi auto*
PREFACE:
This match was inspired by a combination of being a competitor/match director and long time basketball player. I have always loved the effort and emotions that are brought out by a tournament. I have noticed that to be a successful match shooter you need a combination of accuracy, efficiency, precision movements, and adaptation. This equates to being able to engage multiple targets from multiple distances, possibly from multiple positions. This is purely based on hosting/competing in many precision rifle matches (I have no military experience in this field, I just love shooting!).
COF:
Without further adieu I bring you FSC 2014 a Head to Head Match Tournament. To start things off there will be two rounds of shooting for seeding which will be roughly 2.5 min and 12-16 rds each. Seeding rounds will be followed by a seeded Head to Head double elimination tournament. Each round will consist of roughly 5 min and each shooter will fire 26 rounds. In each round you will fire from 4 different barricades and two different distances (between 250-700yards), each barricade will be at a different distance and different positions. Be prepared to shoot from rooftop, doghouse, sitting, kneeling, prone, or other adapted positions. Targets will be multiple sizes and have varied point values based on size and first round hits. Scoring for the seeding and head to head tourney will be based on targets hit. Ties will be decided based on fastest time to complete cof.
Based on the nature of this head to head shooting challenge, there will be two of everything built and targets will be designated by large colored cones to eliminate confusion. Participants will shoot at the same time and the winner moves on to continue the tournament. To make sure everyone has a chance to shoot a fair amount and give shooters the chance to come back from a bad round it will be a double elimination tournament. Even the shooter that is out after two rounds will shoot 78 rounds or more from other stages. The tournament will be true bracket style with 32 shooters. There will be 4 brackets seeded 1-8. The top four shooters in the seeding rounds will be the four number 1 seeds. Shooters 5-8 will be the number 2 seeds, 9-12 the number 3 seeds, etc... To win the tournament from the winners bracket it will take 7-8 wins, from the losers bracket 8-9 wins. The winner of the winners bracket will shoot against the winner of the losers bracket for the title. For the winner of the losers bracket to win the title he/she must beat the opponent two times.
Motivation:
This will minimally be a 50% payout tournament so with 32 shooters it will create a $2400 cash payout to the top 4 shooters. There will also be a prize table but will be based on how much we can get donated in the next 5 months (we already have commitments from Benchmark Barrels, JC Steel targets, Sage Flats Shooters, with more to come
Top Shooter will take home at least $1000 if there is 32 shooters.
Additional Events:
To make things more interesting we will also have two buy in stages that will also be 50% payout stages and there will be daily winners. There will be a minimum of 2 pay to play stages at $5 per attempt at a stage. Shooters will be allowed to shoot each stage up to 3x a day and winners will be determined at the end of the day. So if there are 30 attempts at a stage there will be a $75 prize. This will give you time to shoot more and make additional money! One stage will be a long range stage 800-1300yds, and the other will be an unidentified barricade under 800yds.
Donations: $1 of each entry fee from pay to play stages will go to Camp Patriot (My way of thanking of Carl Taylor for what he has done for camp patriot!! He and his event donate so much more in both time and money!)
Range Officers: Due to the fact it is hard to find range officers I will be giving the range officers of these two stages $1.50/shooter in there event. RO's are free to donate there earnings to Camp Patriot if they desire. Also Range Officers for the tournament will be paid $50/day (2 needed) which I know isn't much, but not bad for getting to watch some pretty awesome shooters competing!
Registration link will be open Feb 1 at 9am. ( I will put a link to the registration on here and it will go active at 9:00am, you will get an email notification of being in the match) After being accepted you will have 14 days to get you check in to me otherwise you will lose your spot.
If you have any questions feel free to post them on here.
Location: Ellensburg, WA
Shooters: 32
Round Count:100-250
Cost: $150 includes t-shirt
Caliber: Any Standard bolt face caliber, NO MAGNUMS!! (TRUST ME YOU WON'T NEED OR WANT ONE!)
*No Restriction on bolt or semi auto*
PREFACE:
This match was inspired by a combination of being a competitor/match director and long time basketball player. I have always loved the effort and emotions that are brought out by a tournament. I have noticed that to be a successful match shooter you need a combination of accuracy, efficiency, precision movements, and adaptation. This equates to being able to engage multiple targets from multiple distances, possibly from multiple positions. This is purely based on hosting/competing in many precision rifle matches (I have no military experience in this field, I just love shooting!).
COF:
Without further adieu I bring you FSC 2014 a Head to Head Match Tournament. To start things off there will be two rounds of shooting for seeding which will be roughly 2.5 min and 12-16 rds each. Seeding rounds will be followed by a seeded Head to Head double elimination tournament. Each round will consist of roughly 5 min and each shooter will fire 26 rounds. In each round you will fire from 4 different barricades and two different distances (between 250-700yards), each barricade will be at a different distance and different positions. Be prepared to shoot from rooftop, doghouse, sitting, kneeling, prone, or other adapted positions. Targets will be multiple sizes and have varied point values based on size and first round hits. Scoring for the seeding and head to head tourney will be based on targets hit. Ties will be decided based on fastest time to complete cof.
Based on the nature of this head to head shooting challenge, there will be two of everything built and targets will be designated by large colored cones to eliminate confusion. Participants will shoot at the same time and the winner moves on to continue the tournament. To make sure everyone has a chance to shoot a fair amount and give shooters the chance to come back from a bad round it will be a double elimination tournament. Even the shooter that is out after two rounds will shoot 78 rounds or more from other stages. The tournament will be true bracket style with 32 shooters. There will be 4 brackets seeded 1-8. The top four shooters in the seeding rounds will be the four number 1 seeds. Shooters 5-8 will be the number 2 seeds, 9-12 the number 3 seeds, etc... To win the tournament from the winners bracket it will take 7-8 wins, from the losers bracket 8-9 wins. The winner of the winners bracket will shoot against the winner of the losers bracket for the title. For the winner of the losers bracket to win the title he/she must beat the opponent two times.
Motivation:
This will minimally be a 50% payout tournament so with 32 shooters it will create a $2400 cash payout to the top 4 shooters. There will also be a prize table but will be based on how much we can get donated in the next 5 months (we already have commitments from Benchmark Barrels, JC Steel targets, Sage Flats Shooters, with more to come
Top Shooter will take home at least $1000 if there is 32 shooters.
Additional Events:
To make things more interesting we will also have two buy in stages that will also be 50% payout stages and there will be daily winners. There will be a minimum of 2 pay to play stages at $5 per attempt at a stage. Shooters will be allowed to shoot each stage up to 3x a day and winners will be determined at the end of the day. So if there are 30 attempts at a stage there will be a $75 prize. This will give you time to shoot more and make additional money! One stage will be a long range stage 800-1300yds, and the other will be an unidentified barricade under 800yds.
Donations: $1 of each entry fee from pay to play stages will go to Camp Patriot (My way of thanking of Carl Taylor for what he has done for camp patriot!! He and his event donate so much more in both time and money!)
Range Officers: Due to the fact it is hard to find range officers I will be giving the range officers of these two stages $1.50/shooter in there event. RO's are free to donate there earnings to Camp Patriot if they desire. Also Range Officers for the tournament will be paid $50/day (2 needed) which I know isn't much, but not bad for getting to watch some pretty awesome shooters competing!
Registration link will be open Feb 1 at 9am. ( I will put a link to the registration on here and it will go active at 9:00am, you will get an email notification of being in the match) After being accepted you will have 14 days to get you check in to me otherwise you will lose your spot.
If you have any questions feel free to post them on here.
