Races & Scoring

The 2012 Vodafone National Series is comprised of the following races:

Sprint

12^th May - Zurich Valentia Island Triathlon

20^th May – Northwest Sprint/Liam Ball

3^rd June – TriAthy Sprint

9^th June – Crooked Lake

16^th June – Hook or By Crook

30^th June – triAthlone Sprint

28^th July – King of the Hill Triathlon, Kilsale

5^th August – Brian Boru Sprint

15^th September – Pulse Triathlon

Olympic

29^th April – Joey Hannan (standard)

2^nd June – TriAthy Olympic

23^rd June – Hell of the West

30^th June – triAthlone Standard

7^th July – Mourne Triathlon

14^th July – Lough Ine Challenge

22^nd July – Beast of the East

5^th August – Brian Boru Olympic

11^th August – Caroline Kearney Memorial Triathlon

26^th August – Dublin City Triathlon

22^nd September – Blacksod Point Challenge

Middle

2^nd June – TriAthy Double Olympic

19^th August – Half Ireman

8^th September – Lost Sheep Triathlon

National Championships

Kinetica Sprint Distance National Championships   Zurich Valentia Island Triathlon  12^th May

Kinetica Olympic Distance National Championships   triAthlone  30^th June

Middle Distance National Championships   Half Ireman  19^th August

Duathlon National Championships   Northwest Duathlon  22^nd April

Aquathlon National Championships   Galway Aquathlon  14^th July

Children’s Triathlon National Championships   Loughrea Children’s Triathlon  9^th Sept

Children’s Aquathlon National Championships   Fingal Sprint Junior Aquathlon  20^th May

How you score points in the Vodafone National Series

Individual Rankings

For each race in the Vodafone National Series (“NS”), only full, student, junior and life members receive points. Total score for the season will be the sum of the scores for the competitor’s -

*       Two best standard distance races that are part of the Vodafone National Series ;
*       Two best sprint distance races that are part of the Vodafone National series;
*       The next best scoring race (standard, sprint, or other distance) that are part of the Vodafone National Series

(Note: the term ‘best’ above means best in terms of points earned in the race – not finishing place).

Points Are Calculated in the Following Way:

Divide the finish time of the TI member who is at the thirtieth percentile by your own finish time, and multiply the result by 100. (The person at the thirtieth percentile is the person who is last place within the top thirty percent of the race competitors who are full, junior, student or life TI members). Calculate to the third decimal place (e.g., 1.123). The nearer the first place you finish, the higher your score. If you finish ahead of the person at the thirtieth percentile, your score for that race will be greater than one hundred.

For example -

If there are 200 competitors in a race but only 100 of them are full, student, junior, and life members, then the competitor at the thirtieth percentile is the person who finishes thirtieth out of all those who are full, junior, student or life TI members (i.e., non-members and associate members are not considered).

If all 200 competitors are full, student, junior, and life members, then the competitor who finishes in sixtieth place is the person at the thirtieth percentile, and everyone else’s race times should be compared to that person to calculate NS points.

Let's say there are 200 people in a sprint race, all of whom are full, junior, student and life TI members, and the person in 60th place has a time of 1 hour 20 minutes and zero seconds (that's 80 minutes).  If your finishing time is 1 hr 10 minutes and zero seconds you'll score 114.3 points [(80 divided by 70) x 100].  If your time is 1:40 you'll score 80 points [(80 minutes divided by 100 minutes ) x 100.

Club Rankings

There are three “Club Championship” awards:-

Male Club Championship

The Male Club Championship will be calculated by adding the individual scores of the top 6 male athletes in each club.  The winning club will be the club with the highest combined score.

Female Club Championship

The Female Club Championship will be calculated by adding the individual scores of the top 6 female athletes in each club.  The winning club will be the club with the highest combined score.

Mixed Club Championship

The Mixed Club Championship will be calculated by adding the individual scores of the top 3 male and top 3 female athletes in each club.  The winning club will be the club with the highest combined score.

How to Score Points for your Club

Please note that individuals can only be considered for inclusion in the club rankings if they are attached to a club on the TI membership system before the Club Championship rankings are finalised. 

To check if you are currently attached to your club, or to attach to your club, please click here. 

Please note that once you attach yourself to a club, you will not be able change clubs during the current year’s membership.