2007 Prize details:
It must be noted that the race committee will have a right
to distribute the prize winnings in a manner that is most fare to all the
participants.
- When
drop of birds come together, they will be declared equal. This may be
equal 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc…Under this
condition the combined prize pool of the birds on the drop will be
distributed equally amongst the birds declared to be on the drop.
Example:
- 1st
drop consisting of five birds. Total prizes for the 1st five
positions are added up and divided equally.
- After
the 1st drop 6th bird comes alone. This bird will
take 6th prize.
- After
the sixth, 10 birds come together. They take combined winnings of the
next 10 birds and these are split equally.
- After
this 10 birds land together. Again they will be declared equal. At this
point there are only four remaining prizes as total of 20 are awarded.
These birds will take the combined remaining prize total and it will be
divided equally.
- For a bird to be declared single, the
bird must be separated by at least 10 seconds from the other clocked birds
and noted visually as a bird that landed or came alone and ahead of
others.
- Race committee
reserves the right to declare the definition of a common drop. In a broad definition
it will be a flock of birds arriving together and entering the loft before
other birds come.