| How about a tassel competition. We run one through the winter months for club members where we get together one Saturday evening per month and shoot and have cake. Archers are shooting against their own best scores to progress through the different colours. We use a 5 spot face for seniors scoring 5 and 4 only. And a single spot for juniors and longbow which scores 5,4,3,2,1 We also have a 10yd distance for little ones and beginners.
As archers are only realy shooting against themselves it is easy to see improvement over the months without feeling they are competing against each other. However there is always some friendly competition between archers in the same class.
For actual competition we run the Boston indoor series with PAA/18m/25m/Portsmouth and Worcester rounds - all open competition, no handicap but split into the various classes of bow, seniors and juniors, team and husband/wife. We award medals for each round and overall trophies for the series.
I agree with Grimsby_archer in that competition is important and archers want to win - speaking as an archer who usually comes in the bottom 3, it gives me something to work towards ........... one day !!!!
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