The provisional Tournament Calendar for 2019 is now available via the Calendar 2019 link at the top of the page. There may still be further changes as we move towards the new season. In particular the World U21 Championships do not yet have confirmed dates or venue.

Calendar 2019

The October draw for the FoT 200 Club took place at the Tournament Ball last weekend. The 200 Club has raised over £48,000 over the last two years and now has 108 monthly ticket holders. £36,000 has been paid out in lottery prizes, skiers travel grants, development days, squad training days and Handicap League prizes. This leaves in excess of £12,000 going into next year when we have two long haul World Championships to support. The October draw double up winners are: no 180 Peter Collins £787.50, no 36 Robert Rowlands £525.00, and no 26 Nick McGarry £262.50. Congratulations to the winners and a great big thank you to all who support this initiative. You are making a difference. ??

FoT October 200 Club Draw

The four E&A Championships have come to an end with the E&A Open Championships which were held in Greece last week. These in addition to the World Youth Championships in Sesena Spain a while ago. Our Skiers in all age categories have once again done us proud with some great results. Most notable were the U21 Championships in Roquebrune, France where the Team took Gold ahead of France and Italy. Joel Poland took Gold in Jump with Robert Hazelwood picking up the Silver and Joel also took Gold Overall with Robert the Silver. Robert came home with a haul of five medals having the Bronze in both Tricks and Slalom. Amazing results from all our Skiers.

The Slalom and Jump Timing Charts have been updated with additional information.
On the Slalom Chart shortening speeds for each Age Category has been added along with additional timing for speeds down to 25 kph.
The Jump Chart has been reorganised and additional information about Age Category Ramp Heights and Maximum Speeds has been added.
So all ready for 2019. As well as the links below the revised charts can be found on the Resources page.

Jump Times 2019

Slalom Timing Chart 2019

The August Draw of the Friends of Tournament 200 Club took place during a Development Day at Church Wilne recently. For August there were 104 Ticket Holders and we already have at least one more for September.
The results were:

1st prize of £390 went to Lee Jackson, number 82.
2nd prize of £260 went to Karine Emmett, number 51
3rd prize of £130 went to Neal Critchley, number 120

Congratulations to our prize winners.

The August draw for the 200 Club Lottery will take place in the next week or so and we are pleased to announce that we have broken through our 100 Ticket holders target with 104 in the next draw.This means that for every month through the rest of this year we will add £1,820 to our funds after lottery prizes. A big welcome to our new participants and thanks to all of you that make this possible……and good luck in future draws. The monthly prizes are now £780 and for the Double Up month will be £1,560.
This year the Tournament Ball is a week or so earlier than usual to allow some people to attend who will then be zapping off to Chile for the 35+ World Championships at the end of November.
So we have decided that the October draw will be done at the Ball on 17th November for this years Double Up prizes. So if you have been in the 200 Club since the June draw any winnings will be doubled. So please think about coming along. Last year we had a Ball if you will excuse the pun.

Ali White has written a very useful document to introduce newcomers to Tournament Waterskiing and the challenge of participating in competitions for the first time. You can find it in Resources or click the link below. So if you are a newbie check it out and avoid the pitfalls.

Welcome to Tournament Waterskiing

The 2018 World Rulebook was recently updated to Version 3. The link to it is below.There are a number of changes from v1 that to make life a little easier and to avoid excessive use of printing ink are summarised on the first four pages before the index.

Tournament World Rulebook 2018 v3

As we have now reached the magic number of 100+ tickets at least for the August draw we thought it was an appropriate time to update you all on the Friends of Tournament achievements so far.
The 200 Club Lottery stated in January 2017 with 35 ticket holders and has grown month on month to at least 102 for the August 2018 draw.
As a reminder the results of the draw are published each month on the BWSW Website, (www.bwsw.org.uk), the Tournament Waterskiing website (www.tournamentwaterskiing.org.uk) and our Friends of Tournament Facebook page. The monthly draw is videoed and normally takes place in the first 10 days of the month for the previous month.
The 200 Club has raised a total of £31,325 since the start and paid out £9,667.50 in prizes. So this together with some donations, sale of badges and money raised at last years Tournament Ball has left us with available funds of £25,841.77.
There have been 57 prizes so far and two people have won four prizes each, two have won three times, and seven have won twice. Some people are born lucky. Several winners have used their winnings to buy a second ticket.

We paid out £5,550.00 in 2017 supporting 22 skiers who represented GBR at World and European events. In 2018 the money has gone towards running six Development Days, three Squad Training Days and each GBR Skier attending this years World and European Championships will receive £300 towards their travel and other costs. This will be a cost of around £14,225.
Our aim is that 50% of the monies raised will be used for Development activities and 50% to support Team Travel and Training through individual grants.
The grants are paid directly to the skiers concerned with a covering letter explaining where the money has come from.
I hope you all agree that you are making a positive difference by your participation in the 200 Club..
Our thanks go to the clubs that have run the Development Days and to Dams Watersports at South Lake for hosting the Squad Training Days.

Please help us to sign up more members and as one suggestion why not see if your Club would buy a ticket. Sign Up forms are available on the Resources page so please help us find new participants and move us towards the 200 number.