I understand your idea of team concept. However if this becomes the norm new are up and comming archers will not even try to go shoot one of these events cause they dont think they have a chance to get in the top 20. Then your World Championship will may never really be challenged. You know the saying "On any given day one can beat anyone else" however if you never give the opportunity, it can never happen. Out west there are way fewer qualifing events. Most states have only one and if you have your typical off day then your out. Yes I agree that means something like you sucumb to the stress level or whatever the reason. So the better person wins, but if that person has already won before, then why not take themselves out of the equation.

I am poseing this thread to let everyone know and reply, that they can do this without repercussions. There by letting more competitors join in the experience. Which we all know is the right thing to do to keep our sport from declining in numbers. Now I am wondering why there arent more Clubs in the midwest willing to hold a IBO Shoot. This too is part of the problem. I would think that any club would be happy to hold one event to create more income of both monies and archers. It wouldnt even need to be a Three leg event, just a single shoot would do. Hense opening the door for more new archers to come tryout there new found skill against everyone with the chance of catchin the dream.

Host clubs how much of a task is it to put on one of these shoots? I would speculate that it would take about the same amount of time as a 3D setup. Maybe more due to more stakes and the double scoring time. But isnt the influx of shooters to your club/range worth it? Most clubs I shoot all across the country have a single score card and they let whomever shoot with whomever, which is fine, so long as integerity is there. I do however like the double scoring and spliting up of peer groups to help maintain integrity. I make it a point to only shoot these type of tournaments. I was surprised more clubs dont use the double scoring system. When I inquired about this most told me they feel if someone wants to cheat, to miss mark the score to make it higher then there is really no way of checking for it. I believe most archers dont want a faulty score on record, but I can see how even in two card system it could be corrupted. So how does a organization police this?
Most clubs dont have enough members to ride/walk the course randomly, and I would guess they dont have enough to send a scorer out with each shooting group.

Thanks for your comments, and to the father/son shooter, thank you very much.