Conditions of Entry:

In order for people to enter the challenge they must submit a signed registration form.
Either send this form to the address at the bottom of the form, or fax it to: 08 95342730.

Rules:

No limit to number of members per team.
No limit to teams per state.
The competition is teams vs teams based.
To qualify for a team session, at least two team members must have sailed that day and recorded results. Individual results alone, will not be counted towards a team session. Using only the best team members to post a result is not in the spirit of the challenge.
Sessions will be defined as windsurfing sessions by team members on the same date, however, the location can be different for different team members.

There will be 6 measurement categories.

• 2 sec peak;
• 5 x 10sec average;
• 1 hour;
• Alpha Racing 500m;
• Nautical Mile.
• Distance traveled in a session.

Points will be awarded in each category, and summed for an "Overall" category.

Teams that don't supply a session score/time/result for a category in any month will be awarded the maximum points.

Measurement Definitions:

Each session to be recorded, will be the average score of the team for each category.
Average being the sum total of all the speeds recorded by individual team members in a days session, and then divided by total number of team members participating on that day.

Note:
From the 1st July, only the top two numbers in each category will count towards the average score. This is to encourage all members of a team to post, because the worst that can happen is that their score isn't counted. The best that can happen is that everyone contributes to the team total. This way there is never any pressure NOT to post your times.

Measurement Method:

Speeds recorded must be from using a recognised GPS and recognised software, as described by GPSSS site, NB The Rules Committee may define it's own rules for the purposes of this challenge.

Special Note:

Technical Advisers for the challenge will be as follows: Roo (NAVi GPS) Sailquik (General) and Slowboat (General).

The following GPS's are considered valid for the purposes of the challenge:

• NAVi GT-11 (uses 1 sec recording intervals which is approved for this Challenge)
• Garmin Foretrex Series
• Garmin Gecko Series
• Garmin Edge (1 second setting)
• Garmin Legend Cx (1 second setting),

Other GPS units can be approved by the technical advisers of the challenge.

Sessions for the teams will be submitted by the team captain. The Team Captain will collate team members sessions work out the average team speed and register these on the challenge website. Session results need to be supplied monthly, though every session in a month can be submitted, and the computer data base will calculate which is the best speed to be recorded for the month.. Each team score will be rank ordered against other teams and a score awarded in each category from lowest to highest. eg. if there are 16 teams in a given category that have submitted a time these will be awarded points according to rank ordering. from a 1 for best time/speed, to 16 for worst. This is done in each category, with the team having the lowest points for the month, being the leading team for the month.

Scoring/Results:

Results will be continually updated on the internet website each month. (A month is enough of a period to give hopefully suitable condions for all, and one session per category per month is a way of avoiding data overload). Winning team/s each month can have bragging rights for that month. Verification of results, needs to be possible, therefore each team members session results needs to be available for scrutiny. (This may be requested at random, or all results need to be forwarded to event organiser at end of the month). Ensure that a printed hard copy is kept of each team members session or a data file be kept of each session on your computer. Monthly scores are summed (added) for the number of months the competition runs.

An overall category (And Challenge Winner) is the team that has the lowest score across all 6 categories over the 8 months, and will be GPS Team Challenge Winner/Champion for 2007.

Duration of competition:

First results for the month of May must be submitted by 7th of June 2007 (Note NB> above), as all team speeds need to be recorded within 7 days of the end of each month.

The competition runs annually.