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This year’s Vegas Shoot is the biggest ever – with around 2,200 registered competitors. Attracted by a generous prize fund, the championship division features a large contingent of professional athletes each year – while the flight categories, for amateur archers, have seen a drastic increase in popularity.
Live scores are available throughout the tournament, in which archers shoot 30 arrows at a triangular triple-spot face each of the three days of the tournament. Three of these 300 rounds (an NFAA – the organisers – round in the USA) decide the final rankings at The Vegas Shoot.
Compound archers score the larger (recurve) centre ring as 10 and the inner centre as X – meaning that each year a number of top archers end up with perfect 900s after the three days. An iconic sudden-death shoot-down decides the winner, with the last athlete standing taking top prize.
Last year, United States compound archers Reo WILDE and Erika JONES kept their arrows in the middle the longest.
Indoor Archery World Cup Final
The first two days of Vegas are the last leg of the Indoor Archery World Cup. Series ranking points are awarded on archers’ two-day, 60-arrow scores – and the top 16 over the season are invited to shoot in the head-to-head Final that evening.
Erika JONES and Jean-Charles VALLADONT each walked away from Singapore and Telford with golds – and hold clear leads in the Indoor World Cup rankings. The question is… will that be enough? Find out on Saturday!
Follow live scores, World Archery’s Facebook and Twitter – and join in using the hashtags #IWCFinal and #VegasShoot.
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