Diablo Shores Pro-Am 2007 Rules and Advancement Criteria

Tournament Officials

• Chief Judge-Sally Mecham
• Pan Am Judge-Richelle Matli
• Chief Scorer-Judy Stanford
• Chief Driver-Bob Hardeman
• Chief Safety-Eric Yamasaki

General Tournament Rules

1. A skiers list will be posted on the website subject to change. Any skier with an asterisk next to their name on the skiers list must come prior to the tournament to prove their scores.
2. The final running order will be posted 15 days prior to the tournament.
3. All rules will be posted on the website and it is the skier’s responsibility to check the website for the rules and any changes.
4. There will be a skiers meeting 30 minutes prior to the start of the tournament on the first day to answer questions and clarify any of the rules for the Head-to-Head events.

Professional Skiers

• The rules below apply to both Open Men and Open Women skiers.
• The Professionals have to ski a minimum of two rounds to compute an average score (best two rounds) in order to advance to the Head-to-Head event.
• The Head-to-Head event will be on Sunday.
• Open Men skiers will start at 32 feet off for the tournament rounds.
• Open Women skiers will start at 28 off for the tournament rounds.
• The two best scores of three rounds will be averaged and the calculated average score will be ranked highest to lowest.
• The top 8 averaged score will advance to the Head-to-Head competition.
• In the event of a tie to advance into the Head-to-Head event, the highest score of the first two rounds is used to break the tie. In the event that score is also tied, the score from the third round will be used to determine the tie breaker.
• The Head-to-Head event will put Skier 1 against Skier 8, Skier 2 against Skier 7 etc.
• Open Men Skiers will start the head-to-head at 32 off and subsequent rounds at 35 off.
• Open Women Skiers will start the head-to-head at 28 off and subsequent rounds at 32 off.
• The time in the water will be 50 seconds on the 1^st boat and 35 seconds on the 2^nd boat. The time in the water will 35 seconds for each skier thereafter.
• If both skiers duplicate a line length in a pass, and both skiers agree, they can drop a pass.
• The scoring criterion for the Head-to-Head is straight buoy count and line length only.
• There will be no tiebreakers to advance in the Head-to-Head event. If the second skier of a bracketed pairing fails to beat the first skier, the first skier wins.

Amateur Skiers

• All Amateur Skiers must have completed 5 tournaments by September 7, 2007 to compete in the Head-to-Head event.
• No new scores will be considered after September 7^th.
• There will be two Head-to-Head events for the Amateur Skiers.
• A Semi-Final Head-to-Head Event will be held Saturday afternoon before the end of the day, weather permitting.
• All skiers have to ski a minimum of two rounds to compute an average score (best two rounds) in order to advance to the semi-final Head-to-Head event.

First Head-to-Head Advancement Criteria

• The top score of any three rounds for all skiers will be ranked from highest score to lowest score. The top six scores will advance to the Final Head-to-Head competition.

Semi-Final Head-to-Head Advancement Criteria

• We will average the highest two scores of the three rounds for all remaining skiers.

Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Average
69	68	70	69.5

• We will subtract the difference between the two round average (best of two rounds averaged) and the AWSA National Ranking Score.

AWSA National Ranking Score	Two Round Average	Difference
68.2	69.5	1.3

• The difference will be sorted highest to lowest.
• The top eight between the two round averages and the AWSA National Ranking Score will advance to the Semi-Final Head-to-Head event on Saturday afternoon.
• In the event of a tie to advance into the semi-final Head-to-Head event, the highest score of the first two rounds is used to break the tie. In the event that score is also tied, the score from the third round will be used to determine the tie breaker.
• The starting rope length for the semi-final head-to-head will be determined from the skiers three tournament rounds.

Semi-Final Scoring Criteria

• Each skier will compete against their Two Round Tournament Average in the Semi-Final Head-to-Head event.
• Each skier has to achieve a higher difference versus their Two Round Average compared to their competitor to advance to the next bracket.
• There will be no ties. If second skier does not beat first skier by a number greater than the first skier difference, the first skier advances.
• The Head-to-Head competition will put Skier 1 against Skier 8, Skier 2 against Skier 7 etc.
• The time in the water will be 50 seconds on the 1^st boat and 35 seconds on the 2^nd boat. The time in the water will 35 seconds for each skier thereafter.
• If both skiers duplicate a line length in a pass, and both skiers agree, they can drop a pass.
• The top two skiers in the semi-final Head-to-Head will advance to the final Head-to-Head event on Sunday.

Amateur Skiers Final Head-to-Head Event

• The scoring criterion for the Head-to-Head is straight buoy and line length only.

All skiers in the Final head-to-head event must start at 28 off.

Junior Skiers

• All Junior Skiers must have completed 5 tournaments by September 7, 2007 to compete for the prizes.
• No new scores will be considered after September 7^th.
• Junior Skiers will compete in a Junior Head-to-Head final event on Saturday or Sunday.
• The two best scores of three rounds will be averaged and the average scores will be ranked highest to lowest.
• We will calculate the difference between the two round average (best of two rounds averaged) and the AWSA National Ranking Score. The difference will be sorted highest to lowest.
• In the event of a tie to advance into the Head-to-Head event, the highest score of the first two rounds is used to break the tie. In the event that score is also tied, the score from the third round will be used to determine the tie breaker.
• The top four Junior Skiers will advance to the Head-to-Head event.
• The scoring criterion for the Head-to-Head is straight buoy and line length only.
• Junior Skiers will be eligible for merchandise prizes only.