Rules for Sixday

Candi Murray

2013-06-23

SIX DAY RULES

- OVERALL WINNER DETERMINED BY CUMULATIVE LAPS AND POINTS FOR ALL RACING.

- POINTS AND LAPS WON OR LOST BY RIDERS IN INDIVIDUAL EVENTS WILL BE ADDED
TO TEAM TOTAL.

- TEAMS THAT ACCUMULATE 100 POINTS PRIOR TO THE LAST DAY WILL HAVE THOSE
POINTS CONVERTED TO A LAP GAINED.

- POINTS FOR INDIVIDUAL EVENTS WILL BE AS FOLLOWS:

1st # of riders in field + 5

2nd # of rider minus 1 + 3

3rd # of riders minus 2 + 2

4th # of riders minus 3 +1

5th # of riders minus 4, etc.

- DAILY PLACE DETERMINED BY TOTAL TEAM POINTS AND LAPS FOR THAT DAY.

- DAILY PLACE AND PRIZES(IF ANY) WILL BE AWARDED AT THE BEGINNING OF THE
NEXT DAY'S RACING OR AFTER RACING SATURDAY. Daily Prizes will be awarded to
the Men A and Women's fields only. Men's B field will have final prizes to
the top 3 teams.

- TEAM RIDERS MUST WEAR SIMILAR JERSEYS.

- TEAMS MAY BE EXCLUDED FROM RACING IF EXCHANGES ARE INADEQUATE OR FOR OTHER
DANGEROUS RIDING. THIS DECISION IS MADE BY THE CHIEF OFFICIAL.

- RIDING BELOW EXCHANGING PAIRS AND MAKING EXCHANGES HIGH ON THE TRACK ARE
EXAMPLES OF DANGEROUS RIDING. EXCHANGES MADE AFTER THE 200 m LINE FOR
SPRINTS MAY BE CONSIDERED DANGEROUS RIDING. RELEGATION, POINTS PENALTIES,
LAP PENALTIES OR DISQUALIFICATION MAY BE ASSESSED FOR INADEQUATE EXCHANGES
OR OTHER DANGEROUS RIDING.

- MADISON PURSUIT

DISTANCE IS 12 LAPS (2 MILES)

MINIMUM 4 EXCHANGES MUST BE MADE

OFFICIALS MAY WAIVE MINIMUM EXCHANGE REQUIREMENT

POINTS AWARDED FOR FINISH

1ST 20

2ND 12

3RD 10

4TH 8

5TH 6

6TH 4

- MAXIMUM FIELD SIZE IS 9 TEAMS. MORE THAN 9 TEAMS WILL BE SEEDED INTO
SEPARATE FIELDS BASED ON THE COMBINED CATEGORIES OF THE TEAMMATES AND
RESULTS IN THE MADISON PURSUIT. TEAMS MAY BE PLACED IN A HIGHER OR LOWER
FIELD IF, IN THE JUDGES OPINION, THE EFFORT IN THE PURSUIT WAS INADEQUATE OR
IF THIS WOULD IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE COMPETITION.

- MAXIMUM FIELDS WILL BE 2 MENS FIELDS (18 TEAMS, 36 RIDERS) AND 1 WOMENS
FIELD (9 TEAMS, 18 RIDERS). SHOULD THERE BE MORE THAN THE MAXIMUM ENTERED
TEAMS WILL BE CUT FROM FURTHER COMPETITION BASED ON THE FIRST DAY PURSUIT.

- SHOULD FIELD SIZES DECREASE, FIELDS MAY BE RECOMBINED WITH THE LEADING
TEAM FROM THE SLOWER FIELD PLACED 2 LAPS BEHIND THE LAST TEAM IN THE FASTER
FIELD AND FOLLOWING TEAMS PLACED ACCORDINGLY, EACH TEAM RETAINING THEIR
POINTS.

- SHOULD 2 TEAMS EACH LOSE A RIDER THE REMAINING RIDERS MAY BE COMBINED.
THE COMBINED TEAM WILL BE THE ADDED POINTS AND LAPS OF THE 2 TEAMS ROUNDED
DOWN TO THE NEAREST EVEN NUMBER AND DIVIDED BY 2.

- SHOULD A TEAM LOSE A SINGLE RIDER, A NEW RIDER MAY BE BROUGHT IN. THE NEW
TEAM WILL RETAIN POINTS AND LAPS WITH 2 LAPS DEDUCTED.

- A TEAM OF 2 NEW RIDERS IS NOT PERMITTED.

-Random daily prize draw for those teams not eligible for daily prizes