Announcement: ASRA Downhill Rankings
Welcome to the launch of the perpetual ASRA Downhill Rankings. 2010 has seen an explosion of downhill races throughout Australia, so from this moment on we're going to start collating the results and officially ranking all downhill riders in Australia.
We will start the rankings from January 1, 2011, which means the winner of the first race next year will become the No. 1 ranked rider in Australia, at least for a little while. Subsequent races will be added, and once 12 months have passed we will start removing older results to ensure that only a rider's pervious 12 months results are included.
Which races are included?
There are four categories of races that will be included:
- IGSA World Cup in Australia - ie, Newton's Nation.
- IGSA/ASRA Australian Nationals - the IGSA limits these to one per year, and ASRA is currently in negotiations for an ASRA/IGSA Nationals in 2011.
- Australian Regionals - includes all legit (non-outlaw) downhill races in Australia
- Outlaws - the more people that attend your event, the more ranking points they are worth.
Only downhill races are included - no push races, carpark races, ditch races or slalom races.
Which people are included?
We'll collate rankings for:
I'm organising a race, and I want it to be included in the rankings. What do I do?
Do these things:
- Create a public event for your race on this website at least one month in advance.
- Run the race. There must be a minimum of 16 racers for skateboard races and 8 for luge races.
- Within one week of the end of the race, post the results on the Event page, along with a Podium Picture, and a short report on the event.
The results must include:
- Racer's first name (no nicknames!)
- Racer's last name (no nicknames!)
- Racer's date of birth
- Racer's place in race.
4 Send the results to asra@skateboardracing.org.au
We encourage you to use the results spreadsheet when you send us your results.
Note: ASRA reserve the right to exclude a race for any reason. Significant doubts over the credibility/fairness of the results would necessitate excluding a race.
The points system
The following table shows the points for each of the race categories. Click it for even more detail.
Update: The rankings are now live. Click here to see them.
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Premium Member Comment by Trav on February 6, 2011 at 17:16 -
MOTH was the first
http://www.skateboardracing.org.au/page/asra-downhill-rankings
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ASRA Admin Comment by Bugs on February 6, 2011 at 17:17 -
The Pumpy did that, and the rankings are here for all to see. The Kongwak race might be the second to count. Then Bomb the Snowies.
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Comment by Ashley Armitage on February 6, 2011 at 17:24
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Cheers Guys!
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Comment by Sakamoto on February 6, 2011 at 21:57
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Bomb the Snowies is the first legit event, Ash, the other two were/are outlaws.
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Premium Member Comment by Ian Coggan on February 6, 2011 at 22:15 -
@bugs bro is the Kongwak race gonna count towards it, i wanna know whether i book a plane there or not.
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ASRA Admin Comment by Bugs on February 7, 2011 at 7:02 -
Ian, at this stage it's up to the Kongwak organisers. I've asked them, but haven't gotten a response yet.
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Premium Member Comment by Trav on February 7, 2011 at 7:48 -
as there are only 32 race spots for Bomb the Snowies, if you don't qualify does your qualifying overall position going to count in the points system?
for example if you qualify 35th, do you get points awarded as a normal 35th person or do you get nothing because you're not technically racing. ??
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Premium Member Comment by Trav on February 7, 2011 at 7:52 -
sorry 2nd question, does private invite only events count?
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Comment by Robbo on February 7, 2011 at 8:22
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Qualifying result regardless of if it places you in the main draw will still give you a result and ranking points. DNS in qualifier and than not being included in the main draw will not. DNF in qualifier will still give you points.
I would say no with the private events. You can of course as a race organiser restrict entrants for any reason including rider cap, seeding and what not. If it is made invitational and only those people are your friends in the absence of some other criteria eg Top 20 seeds, I don't think we could let that through and could be included under the 'ASRA reserves the right to not include an event for any reason' condition.
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Premium Member Comment by haggy on February 7, 2011 at 8:25 -
Trav - I think it makes sense to give everyone who doesn't qualify for the racing bracket a ranking based on their qualifying run. We'll bring it up with the organisers.
2nd question - that's a tricky one. don't think we considered that option when we set this up... let me get back to you on that one. probably the answer would be no.
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