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UK CROSS TRAINING ASSOCIATION UKXTA Ranking listsHome PageLatest newsFrom Oct 2008 we are now starting a new ranking system. Our aims behind the new system are to raise performance levels, raise the numbers of people doing cross training and also to raise the excitement of competing against someone at your own level. As the Octathalon is the UKXTA's top event in the year, in that it currently attracts the best competitors, the top Octathalon times for all competitors will form the basis of the system. This system then divides all competitors into groups. The sub10's, for all those who have done sub 10 mins for the Octathalon Cup course, the Sub10.30's, Sub 11.30's and so on. Each of these groups of people will now be in a ladder system where, depending on race results and times at cross training events throughout the year, your name could get to the top or the bottom of that ladder. The names in the ladders stay the same throughout the year until the next Octathalon Cup when the timings from that event get put into the top 40 list and that may change things. At that point new ladders with the new names in each ladder will start. So if you want to move up a ladder, you will need to improve your Octathalon time. However you cannot move down a ladder, even if you are beaten by someone in a lower ladder, until your Octathalon time moves you down a ladder in the following year. So just like with a 'Squash' ladder in 'Squash' clubs, you can race someone at an event from within your ladder and if you beat them, your name will go above theirs. This should up the excitement in all the races in all the cross training events and, I am sure with courteous requests to organiser's of these events beforehand, a race between two of you in a ladder can be arranged. As this is all done with times, there is actually no need to have a Masters category. Organiser's can also choose to use this list to help with matching people of similar ability and times in their race line ups in order to make for more exciting racing. Moving up and down a ladder can be done in two ways. Priority moves are made when actual races take place at events between two people from the same ladder. If the lower placed person wins, their position moves one above the person they beat. After those changes have occurred all those people in the ladder that obtained a finishing time from the event get a chance to move up, or have to move down one place. If your time was faster than the next person (who raced at that event) above you in the ladder, you move up one place, if not you stay in the same place, unless someone below you in the ladder has a faster time than yours, then they move above you. If the person at the top of the ladder did not do the event, you can only move above that person into 1st place if your time for that event was faster than anyone else's time from the ladder above you. The exception to this is for the premier ladder where the only way to get to first place is to beat the person either in a head to head race or by getting a faster time. Everyone else who has done the Octathalon course and who has a recognised Octathalon time done at a competition, will be put in Ladder 5. If anyone else would like to join this system, please email us and your name will be added to that ladder. This includes people competing at Intermediate level at cross training competitions. Just let us know. This ladder should also encourage greater participation at events which should help organisers get their numbers up. The reason for that is, that if you miss an event, you name might slip down the list. At the end of each year those people at the top of the ladder after the next Octathalon Cup will get rewarded. (TBD) We have added a Mens Open Ladder and a Mens Masters Ladder at the bottom and if there is a preference to do things this way, we will be happy to do so,
Womens Top 21
MASTERS LADDER
MENS OPEN LADDER
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