The 2018 World Rulebook was recently updated to Version 3. The link to it is below.There are a number of changes from v1 that to make life a little easier and to avoid excessive use of printing ink are summarised on the first four pages before the index.

Tournament World Rulebook 2018 v3

As we have now reached the magic number of 100+ tickets at least for the August draw we thought it was an appropriate time to update you all on the Friends of Tournament achievements so far.
The 200 Club Lottery stated in January 2017 with 35 ticket holders and has grown month on month to at least 102 for the August 2018 draw.
As a reminder the results of the draw are published each month on the BWSW Website, (www.bwsw.org.uk), the Tournament Waterskiing website (www.tournamentwaterskiing.org.uk) and our Friends of Tournament Facebook page. The monthly draw is videoed and normally takes place in the first 10 days of the month for the previous month.
The 200 Club has raised a total of £31,325 since the start and paid out £9,667.50 in prizes. So this together with some donations, sale of badges and money raised at last years Tournament Ball has left us with available funds of £25,841.77.
There have been 57 prizes so far and two people have won four prizes each, two have won three times, and seven have won twice. Some people are born lucky. Several winners have used their winnings to buy a second ticket.

We paid out £5,550.00 in 2017 supporting 22 skiers who represented GBR at World and European events. In 2018 the money has gone towards running six Development Days, three Squad Training Days and each GBR Skier attending this years World and European Championships will receive £300 towards their travel and other costs. This will be a cost of around £14,225.
Our aim is that 50% of the monies raised will be used for Development activities and 50% to support Team Travel and Training through individual grants.
The grants are paid directly to the skiers concerned with a covering letter explaining where the money has come from.
I hope you all agree that you are making a positive difference by your participation in the 200 Club..
Our thanks go to the clubs that have run the Development Days and to Dams Watersports at South Lake for hosting the Squad Training Days.

Please help us to sign up more members and as one suggestion why not see if your Club would buy a ticket. Sign Up forms are available on the Resources page so please help us find new participants and move us towards the 200 number.

The Stokes Pro-Am Jump Competition took place last week sponsored by John and Sylvia Phillips. Featuring the best Water Ski Jumpers in the World and some pretty good amateurs we were treated to two days of exciting jumping. The cash prizes for the Pro’s totalled $27,000 and the first prize of $9,000 was won by Ryan Dodd with a huge leap of 71.6 metres.
Thank to all the Hazelwood familyfor hosting the event and to John and Sylvia for making it possible.

The Combined National Championships took place at Gosfield Lake recently and despite a somewhat windy weather forecast for the Saturday some schedule changes ensured that the Championships were completed. The Combined format worked well and seemed to be well received by all the competitors.
A big thank you to Vince and Emma Turp for their great work in organising the event and to all the Turps family for their hospitality. Also thanks to all the Officials who worked tirelessly over the four days to ensure all worked well. It takes a great team to make sure that an event like this goes well and from the Jetty Crew, rescue team, Judges, Drivers, Scorers and Homologator we certainly had that.

The draw for July took place at Dams Watersports at South Lake during a Squad Training Day funded by Friends of Tournament.
The Winners are:
1st Vince Turp £360 No.3
2nd Patric Foley-Brickley £240 No.17
3rd Jill Howard £120 No.65
Congratulations to them and thanks to the ticket holders for your generosity in supporting this fund raising initiative.
We had 96 balls in the bag for the July draw but anticipate that we will exceed ONE HUNDRED in August.
So far this year FoT funds have helped run six early season Development Days for skiers who are mostly not yet competing, two Squad Training days and the six skiers who represented GBR at the World Youth Championships in Sesena will shortly be receiving a £300 contribution towards their costs of travel,training etc for this event.

FoT 200 Club July Draw

We added another two ticket holders for the June draw bringing our total to 92…..another step towards the magic 100.
There are already another two included for the July draw which will take place early August, maybe during the Stokes Pro-Am jump event at Hazelwoods.
So only 6 more needed to meet our 2018 target of 100.

Congratulations to our June draw winners:

1st Jodi’s Ski School £345 No. 150
2nd Val Parkin £230 No. 20
3rd Colin Horne £115 No. 23

FoT has already provided financial support for six development days at various ski clubs where young skiers have had a day of coaching and have been given a Competitors Tournament Licence. So hopefully we will see some of them in future events. In addition FoT has organised two Squad training days to take place at South Lake with Damien Ackerer in early August. Collective squad training has not been possible for some years due to funding levels, so here is a great example of where FoT is making a difference. Around 30 Youth, U21 and Open skiers representing GBR in European and World events will receive at least £300 towards their travel and participation costs this year.

200 Club June Draw video

200 Club Sign Up form on the Resources Page

We are a week away from our Combined British Nationals at Gosfield and are hoping that this good weather will continue for the event. The official closing date for entries has now passed but late entries can still be accepted for the payment of a small extra fee.
Having reviewed the schedule we have decided that on Day 1, Wednesday 25th July we will start at 9.00am rather than 8.00am. The other days remain with an 8.00am start.

Bulletin Number 3 has been published for the E&A 35+ Championships to be held in Halle Germany from 23rd to 26th August. This Bulletin contains some updated information including the Official Familiarisation schedule which has been developed strictly in accordance with the E&A Additional Rules.
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The 2018 Combined National Championships at Gosfield are only just over two weeks away. The closing date for entries is 16th July so if you are still considering taking part its not too late. Some people have asked why the Championships have been combined this year. We the main reason is that no Club bid to host the Senior Championships so the only solution thanks to Vince Turp and Gosfield was to combine them. We have organised the schedule so that Senior Slalom Skiers do not need to attend on Day 1.
We hope that the format will generate a great atmosphere over the four days of Competition.

The Bulletin and Entry Forms can be downloaded from the following link.

Nationals 2018 Bulletin

This years 35+ Europe & Africa Championships will take place in Halle, Germany from 23rd to 26th August.
Bulletin 2 has just been published and can be found at the following link.

E&A 35+ Bulletin 2