How to Qualify for the ARWorld Championship \'05?

Rob Howard / 07.10.2004

Southern Traverse 2005 has been announced as the 2005 World Championships event, with qualification through the AR World Series, and teams will now be planning their programmes, wanting to be sure to qualify. But how do you secure one of the 60 places available?

It’s a question that’s been asked of SleepMonsters many times recently and as the online partners for the ARWorld Series we asked the series founder Geoff Hunt to explain the qualification process and he set out the following criteria.

Entry will be based on the following priorities, from events in the current qualifying year.

i. free entry to the winning teams of all ARWorld Series events;
ii. next, any team who has placed second in any ARWorld Series event,
iii. next, any team who has competed in and completed any 2 events of the ARWorld Series.
iv. next, any teams who have competed in and completed one of the ARWorld Series events
v. next, teams who have competed and completed in a previous years ARWorld Series events
vi. next, teams who have won other recognised events not part of the ARWorld Series
vii. last, teams from different countries not otherwise represented

Notes:

1. The current year is defined as beginning with the last ARWorld Championship (Aug \'04 Newfoundland, Canada)
2. Participants in the ARWorld Champs 04 in Newfoundland would qualify under section iv.
3. The higher a team is on the qualification criteria the better the chances of being selected for the ARWorld Championship.
4. Teams must contain not less than two (2) members of the team that completed the relevant event.
5. Final race spot allocation is at the discretion of the Race Directors.