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You can save yourself a bunch of time, money, and effort and just buy the shirt!

 
You can save yourself a bunch of time, money, and effort and just buy the shirt!

Great Advice! #Truestory.
 
You can save yourself a bunch of time, money, and effort and just buy the shirt!

And I was just telling you I needed a shirt!!!
 
You can only get that shirt with a person's name who is on actually on the SR. Team. You cant put your name on it unless you earn the place on the team.
The money you put towards the shirt with the archers name goes to help that archer out!

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I can always Permanent marker my name on there. No shame, no shame.
 
I suspect they mean the cost of traveling to all the qualifying events.
I would say $5000 is a very conservative number depending on your location in the US and whether you travel alone or not. I’ve been afraid to look at our total spent from 2021.
 
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I don’t know that I buy that. We really need more alternates than shooters?
Well, you want to cultivate a team. You cannot be sure how many will remain the USAT from year to year. Eight gives you a solid line up from which to build on and allows more participation. You need to have a system that not only supports the top archers of that year, but also supports new archers. Having just one alternate gives very little room for error: if two archers drop out, you have gutted the team. Also, it allows more participation of USAT members in competitions to keep the team visible. Like the Koreans, I am sure USA Archery has figured out that 8 gives a good benefit cost ratio.
 
But the USAT is symbolic. Selection for specific world events has nothing to do with USAT rankings. Most events have individual qualifiers. World Cups use this, which is different from USAT selection.

Still not sure what your getting at. Do you not want a USAT ranking? Do you only want a top three usat ranking?


Usat rankings do matter. There are several shoots a year. Pan Am games this year in Nova Scotia is just one example. Top three are guaranteed a spot and get the call first. However sense USA archery isn't funding that shoot some of the top shooters elect to drop out. Next in line gets to go.

I dont agree with it! I think the shooters shouldn't have to fund themselves to represent the USA in an international shoot.





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But the USAT is symbolic. Selection for specific world events has nothing to do with USAT rankings. Most events have individual qualifiers. World Cups use this, which is different from USAT selection.

Well, if I read this right, USAT rankings are based on NRS. The NRS is used for selection. You can only have a NRS score if you compete in USAT tournaments.

Not exactly symbolic.
 
Well, if I read this right, USAT rankings are based on NRS. The NRS is used for selection. You can only have a NRS score if you compete in USAT tournaments.

Not exactly symbolic.
The rankings have mattered for a long time. The USAT itself, not so much.
 
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