Age classifications

Archers are grouped by age as follows:

	Senior Gentlemen (18+)
	Junior Gentlemen (U18)
	Junior Gentlemen (U16)
	Junior Gentlemen (U14)
	Junior Gentlemen (U12)
	Senior Ladies (18+)
	Junior Ladies (U18)
	Junior Ladies (U16)
	Junior Ladies (U14)
	Junior Ladies (U12)

Senior Gentlemen will normally shoot the outdoor round mentioned first in each of the families of rounds listed below. Under 18 Junior Gentlemen and Senior Ladies will normally shoot the second round and so on down the age classifications and families. There is nothing to stop an archer shooting either longer or shorter rounds than their age classification indicates, but medals, and sometimes records, cannot normally be won for shooting a shorter round than would be expected.

Descriptions of the families of Outdoor Rounds

Rounds fall into families which share the same pattern of numbers of arrows shot and numbers of distances involved (for example the "York" family all involve shooting six dozen arrows at one distance, four dozen at the next shorter distance followed by two dozen at a still shorter distance). The starting distance in each family gets progressively shorter from the first mentioned to the last.

Descriptions of the Indoor Rounds

Indoor rounds are more individual and everyone tends to shoot the same round at the same time.

Oddities are:

• the Stafford, which is most often shot outdoors for lack of space indoors
• the Worcester which uses a special five zone face with a white centre circle and the remainder of the face black
• the Vegas where a special face with three targets arranged in a triangle is used and numbered arrows have to be shot at the correspondingly numbered target