Competition Info

SAFTEY
Each University is responsible for the safety of their own members. If you think that someone is likely to swim, please have some one ready to give them a hand. We will have a trained safety team on hand to help retrieve swimmers and pinned boats.

If you are interested in being a hero and would like to help out on our safety team please get in touch.

CATEGORIES
K1: The competition commences with an extreme slalom in which competitors are required to perform a variety of stipulated moves on designated parts of the course. Judges will be in place throughout the course to score the moves from 0-10. Naturally bonus points will be on offer for originality and humour. The competitors will then be split, according to the results of the extreme slalom, into different categories, with 3 tiers in the Mens' event and 2 in the Womens'. The freestyle event will be conducted according to such categories. The expert heats will implement a typical freestyle scoring system designed to award the difficulty and variety of the moves performed. However, the novice and intermediate categories will be scored with a much larger emphasis placed on determination and humour.
Be warned a totally new radical judging system will be put in place for the mens expert finals. Watch out for more information.

K1 Open: This is run from the original heats to the finals using the same freestyle scoring system as the K1 experts.
C1 Competitors will run the extreme slalom just like the K1 event. The top six from the slalom will then go into a freestyle competition.

Squirt : The squirt will be run as a straight final. We will be looking to have a coaching session available before the event so this will be a perfect chance to work on your skills.

Topo Duo: This infamous event often involves few clothes and/ or inflatable toys. First a head to head down river race will be held with the best of the best moving through to the freestyle heats. The freestyle section will be judged with a large emphasis on old skool moves such as pop outs and paddle twirls.

King of the Wave: This event will be open to the top male and female paddler in the extreme slalom from each university, there will be seperate male and female events. There will be a two minute slot where anyone can drop down on to the top
wave (and get out and come back round if they are quick), after that nobody is allowed back on to the wave and the last person surfing the wave is the winner, simple but brilliant! All paddlers will be entering this event having signed a disclaimer and entered entirely at their own risk :-).