ISAF Sailing World Cup Announces Revised Scoring System For 2009-2010

The ISAF Sailing World Cup scoring system has been revised for the 2009-2010 season, which begins in Melbourne, Australia later this month.

The ISAF Sailing World Cup 2009-2010 incorporates seven events. Sailors can score points at each event to count towards their ISAF Sailing World Cup series score.

At each event, only the 20 boats ranked highest in the overall ranking of the event will be scored. The boat finishing in first place will be scored 20 points, second place will be scored 19 points, third place 20 points and so on through to 1 point for a twentieth place finish. A boat finishing in twenty-first place or worse is scored 0 points. A boat which does not compete in an event is not awarded a score.

Discard Introduced
The ISAF Sailing World Cup series score for a boat will be the total of its event scores excluding two events according to the following criteria:

a. After three events, a boat’s worst event is excluded

b. After six events, a boat’s worst European event* and its remaining worst event are excluded.

If a boat has two or more equal worst scores, the score(s) for the event(s) sailed earliest shall be excluded.

*The European events are: Trofeo SAR Princess Sofia MAPFRE - Palma de Majorca, ESP Semaine Olympique Francaise – Hyeres, FRA Delta Lloyd Regatta – Medemblik, NED Kieler Woche – Kiel, GER Skandia Sail For Gold Regatta - Weymouth & Portland, GBR

Breaking Ties
If there is a series score tie between two or more boats, each boat’s event scores (ie. E1, E2, E3 etc) shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first point(s) where there is a difference, the tie shall be broken in favour of the boat(s) with the best (i.e. highest) score. No excluded scores shall be used.

If a tie remains between two or more skippers, they shall be ranked in order of their event score in the last event. Any remaining ties shall be broken by using the tied skippers’ scores in the next-to-last event and so on. These scores shall be used even if some of them are excluded scores.

The 2009-2010 ISAF Sailing World Cup series kicks off with Sail Melbourne in Australia starting 14 December 2009. Next stop is Miami, USA for US SAILING’s Rolex Miami OCR in January followed by quintet of European events: the Trofeo SAR Princesa Sofia MAPFRE in Palma, Spain; Semaine Olympique Francaise in Hyeres, France; the Delta Lloyd Regatta in Medemblik, The Netherlands; Kieler Woche in Kiel, Germany; and finally the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta at the 2012 Olympic sailing venue at Weymouth, Great Britain.

To find out more about the ISAF Sailing World Cup go to: www.sailing.org/worldcup

Source: ISAF