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PVA National Trapshoot Circuit Rules

updated March 12, 2009

PVA National Trapshoot Circuit competitors will not be required join the ATA, PITA or any other organization in order to participate. ATA rules, with the following additions and/or modifications, will apply at all shoots.

Each of the tournaments making up the PVA National Trapshoot Circuit will consist of 100 Singles, 100 Handicap, and 50 pair of Doubles targets. Only these 300 clays will be used for Circuit score totals. Any tournament can throw additional targets as decided by the tournament director; however, additional targets will not be included in year-end scoring.

Competitors will be classified by the tournament director using the latest "Known Ability" data available including, but not limited to, PVA National Trapshoot Circuit results and averages and ATA or PITA averages.  Tournament Directors will rely most heavily on past PVA Circuit results when available.  PVA will continually track circuit event scores, calculate averages and re-assign classes at each tournament according to the following parameters:

CLASS	SINGLES	DOUBLES
AAA	97% and up	95% and up
AA	91% to 96%	87% to 94%
A	87% to 90%	78% to 86%
B	82% to 86%	70% to 77%
C	77% to 81%	62% to 69%
D	below 77%	below 62%

Note: Yardage will be assigned shooters of high scores at each tournament as detailed in the Earned Yardage Table.

EARNED YARDAGE TABLE
# of entries	1st	2nd	3rd
15 to 39	1/2 yard
40 to 69	1 yard
70 to 124>	1 yard	1/2 yard
125 and up	1 yard	1 yard	1/2 yard

SAFETY: When assigning handicap shooters with 18- and 19-yard handicaps, only one yard will be allowed adjacent shooter and only two yards overall on the squad.

Any score of 96 will earn 1/2 yard, scores of 97, 98 and 99 will earn 1 yard and a score of 100 earns 1 ?  yards provided that these scores do not earn at least that amount under the EARNED YARDAGE TABLE.

PVA has developed a HANDICAP REVIEW SYSTEM to appropriately increase or reduce a shooters assigned handicap. Each Circuit participant’s Handicap average will be reviewed after the completion of each Circuit. Details about this are available at www.pva.org or by request to PVA Sports. Any shooter may request a Special Review for his/herself. Any Tournament Director can request a Special Review for any shooter. All requests must be received in writing by PVA Sports and must explain the reasoning behind the request. Reviews will be conducted at the next appropriate meeting of the tournament directors of the PVA National Trapshoot Circuit.

Each tournament will recognize, at minimum, at least one award in each of the following categories: High Overall, Handicap [Extra Long (27-yard line), Long (24-26), Mid (21-23) and Short (18-20) yardages], both Doubles and Singles in the each of the following classes: AAA, AA, A, B, C, and D classes, respectively. The hierarchy of prestige of the mandatory awards coincides with the order of listing in the preceding sentence.  Additional awards may be presented at the discretion of the host chapter.  If 2nd place awards are presented, they will follow the same hierarchy.

Starting with the 11th Annual Trap Circuit, National PVA Sports and Recreation will host the year-end circuit tournament on a range of National PVA’s choosing.  All participants in the End-Of-Circuit Tournament must have participated in at least one tournament for that specific circuit.  In addition to the above described tournament awards, National PVA will provide the End-Of-Circuit awards.

PVA will recognize year-end Circuit winners with awards in the same categories, plus the Chad Crowley Award which goes to the PVA member with the highest overall total score (maximum of 4 trapshoot scores) that was shot from a wheelchair, as well as an additional High Overall and a High Overall Wheelchair award.  Year-end award hierarchy is 1) Chad Crowley, 2) High Overall, 3) High Overall Wheelchair, and then as at any other Circuit tournament.  Ties at any circuit event will be decided by the longest run, front to back in the tied event, then in the additional events in the order of the prize hierarchy, and then a coin toss.   Ties eligible for Chad Crowley will receive duplicate awards.

Circuit year-end awards will be given at the class and yardage the participants have at the end of the year.  If a year-end winner is not participating in the year-end event, and is tied with a participant for a year-end award, the award winner will be determined by a coin-toss.  If both parties are absent, a coin-toss will also decide. 

Circuit winners will be decided by the sum of their five highest scores out of the Circuit shoot scores. The lowest additional scores will be dropped.  An individual must attend three (3) shoots in order to win an award.  Circuit winners are limited to one individual award.

Any individual shooting with a chapter team must be either a PVA member or an Associate Member of the chapter whose team they are shooting with.  A chapter's team must be declared before the shoot that they are competing in begins. A chapter may submit as many teams as they desire. The team must have at least three wheelchair shooters on a shooting squad at all times. A maximum of two of the team shooters may be non-wheelchair users. No one may be listed on more than one chapter team roster in the same circuit year.
 
The Chapter Team Trophy will go to the chapter team with the highest total score on a maximum of five shoots. If a chapter has a team competing in more than five of the shoots, the lowest scores on any extra shoots will be dropped.

PVA TRAP CIRCUIT HANDICAP SYSTEM

1.  Yardage will be automatically earned by shooters of high scores in all PVA National Trap Circuit Tournaments according to the following ATA table:

EARNED YARDAGE TABLE
# of entries	1st	2nd	3rd
15 to 39	1/2 yard
40 to 69	1 yard
70 to 124>	1 yard	1/2 yard
125 and up	1 yard	1 yard	1/2 yard

2.  Any score of 96 will automatically earn ? yard, provided it does not earn at least that much under the earned yardage table.  Any score of 50 x 50 or 75 x 75 in events of that length will automatically earn ? yard, provided it does not earn that much under the earned yardage table.

3.  Any score of 97, 98, and 99 will automatically earn 1 yard, and a score of 100 will automatically earn 1 ? yards provided these scores do not earn at least that much under the earned yardage table.