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The NFAA INDOOR State Championship will be as follows: NO DATE SET YET

E. NFAA Indoor Round:

1. Standard Unit:

Shall consist of 60 arrows, shot as three games, at a distance of 20 yards. Each game shall

consist of four ends of five arrows per end.

2. Targets:

2.1 The target shall be 40 cm. in diameter and shall be of a dull blue color. The spot

shall be two white rings with blue X in center ring. All inscribed scoring rings shall

be white.

2.2 The bullseye shall be 8 cm. in diameter with a 4 cm. X-ring.

2.3 The Tournament Director may allow the archer to use the Five Spot Target. (See

paragraph 5 below for description of target and method of scoring).

2.4 The Tournament Director may substitute the Vegas 3 spot face or the Vegas 40 cm

face as official faces in place of the 40 cm blue target or the Five Spot Targets,

with scoring as follows: 10 through 1 on the single spot target, 10 through 6 on the

three spot target. 5 ends of 3 arrows will be shot per game. Tournament Director

will decide if 2, 3, or 4 Games will be used, scoring 300, 450, or 600, respectively.

A time limit of 2½ minutes per end will be used.

3. Shooting Positions:

Shooting positions will provide sufficient area to enable two archers to safely shoot

simultaneously at one target butt.

4. Shooting Rules:

4.1 An archer must straddle the shooting line or distance marker. A disabled archer

shooting from a chair or wheelchair will place the chair legs or wheels straddling

the shooting line or distance marker.

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4.2 The time limit shall be four minutes per end.

4.3 The method of breaking ties will be at the discretion of the tournament director.

4.4 In the event of equipment failure, the archer will have fifteen minutes repair time

without holding up the tournament. One practice end will be allowed. The archer

shall be allowed to shoot any arrows he or she did not shoot during the fifteen

minutes repair time, after the final end.

4.5 Two ends of practice will be allowed at all Indoor National and Sectional

Tournaments and be optional at State Level and below.

5. Scoring:

5.1 The scoring is 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 from the spot out.

5.2 X-rings shall be counted and used as tie breakers and will be considered part of the

official score.

5.3 Archer shall record X’s and numeric values of each arrow in each scoring box

before touching or drawing any arrows from the target. No archer may touch the

target face before all arrows are scored.

Example:

Arrow Score End Score X’s

X X X 5 5 25 3

X X X X 5 25 4

X X X X X 25 5

X X X X 4 24 4

5.4 An arrow cutting two rings shall be scored in the ring of greater value. Scoring is

determined by the position of the shaft. In all NFAA Rounds, an arrow shaft need

only touch the line to be counted in the area of next higher value.

5.4.1 In the event the scoring ring has become distorted due to torn or missing paper,

the scorer shall visually reconstruct the natural arc of the scoring ring to

determine the value of the arrow(s).

5.5 Witnessed bounce outs or arrows passing completely through the target will be reshot.

5.6 Hits on the wrong target will be scored as misses.

5.7 When an arrow is dropped while the archer is in the act of shooting, he/she may

shoot another arrow in place of the dropped arrow if any portion of the dropped

arrow is within ten feet of the shooting line.

5.8 If an archer shoots more than the prescribed number of arrows in an end, the excess

arrow or arrows of higher value will not be scored. A penalty of one point will be

assessed for each arrow shot over the prescribed number of arrows.

5.9 If an archer shoots less than the prescribed number of arrows in one end he/she

may shoot his/her remaining arrows if the omission is discovered before the end is

officially completed; otherwise they shall be scored as misses.

5.10 When using the NFAA Indoor Five Spot Target:

5.10.1 An archer may shoot the 5 spot target in any order and shoot as many

arrows into any spot as the archer desires, not to exceed the prescribed

number of arrows per end.

5.10.2 Scoring shall be five points for the combined four cm. X-ring and 8 cm.

white ring and four points for the combined twelve cm. and sixteen cm.

blue rings.

55.12 The target group, which generally consists of four archers, will select a score

caller, two scorekeepers, and a target captain. The target captain shall be the judge

of disputed arrows on his/her target. When a captains arrows are in question, the

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majority of the group shall decide the status of the target captains arrows. When a

line judge has been appointed by the tournament director and an appeal is made to

the line judge, the line judges call will be final