REMINDER: Entries close Friday 21st May.
If you would like to just watch/listen, please contact Peter on the email address below for the meeting link.
| Date: | Saturday 22nd May 2021 |
| Starting time: | 9:45 for 10:00am |
| Ringing Room | https://ringingroom.com/798465123/wp_competition |
| For more info and to enter contact: | Peter Niblett 1 Oakland Road, Whitchurch, RG28 7HH email: pdn3270@gmail.com Tel: 01256 893997 Mob: 07825 657662 |
| Closing date for entries: | Friday 21st May 2021 |
While we’ve all missed being able to do much serious tower bell ringing over the last year, many of us have made use of the opportunities provided by the Ringing Room platform to stay in touch with each other, practice a different kind of ringing and maybe even learn some new methods.
I’m sure we are all looking forwards to getting back to real bells, but we thought it might be fun for the bands who have been using Ringing Room to get together and have an informal virtual ringing competition.
The idea is to run it like a traditional striking competition, but with the judges and participants joining via Zoom and naturally the ringing will be using Ringing Room. We will send a Zoom meeting link out closer to the date, but if you have been using Ringing Room during the lockdown (either regularly or only just now and then) please get together with your fellow ringers and put in a team.
It’s intended to be a bit of fun and not get too serious, so no prizes, cups or certificates. However it wouldn’t be a striking competition without some rules, so we have put together a set that try and adapt the traditional format into a virtual event. Please feel free to ask questions or comment.
Rules:
- All ringers in each team must be Guild members and should have been ringing together on Ringing Room during the lockdowns.
- A participant may ring in more than one team, provided that the number of participants doing this is not excessive.
- No more than half of the members of a team can ring in another team
- Each team shall contain 6 ringers, each ringing the same single bell throughout the test piece.
- Each team may have four minutes ringing in which to prepare for the test piece. The treble bell shall then be rung several times to indicate that the team is about to start the test piece.
- The competition ringing will comprise 120 changes in any Doubles or Minor method(s) of the team’s own choice, rung on the Tower Bell setting of Ringing Room.
- The test piece will be rung with a whole pull of Rounds at the start and with no additional Rounds at the end. The initial Rounds will not be judged, but the final row will be judged.
- Each team will be able to communicate with each other via Zoom during the practice ringing and the test piece, however they will be placed in a separate “break-out room” so their conversation will not be overheard by the judge or by other teams.
- The judge shall have discretion on how to score the test ringing and how much allowance, if any, to make for Internet-related issues. A team will be allowed to restart the test piece if a significant technical issue occurs (for example a ringer getting disconnected from the Internet during the test piece).
- The decision of the Committee shall be final in any matter concerning the conduct of the competition and the interpretation of these rules.
