After a slight delay, the various performance tables have been updated with the Drum Manor results.
The official NI Series tables can be downloaded from the NIOA website, but a copy can be viewed at “OneDrive Public>NI Series>NISeries20024.pdf”.
The colour standards table can be viewed at “STANDINGS>Colour Standards>Colour Standards.pdf” As was warned after Drumkeeragh 4 events would drop out of the 12-month window before Drum Manor so quite a few folk have lost their current colour status.
The hCOW tables can be viewed at “STANDINGS>hCOW>hCOW2024”. The Event2… table shows that only 2 out of the 38 results showed an event speed slower than handicap. After the terrain and weather difficulties of Drumkeeragh the easier going and the benign conditions of Drum Manor seem to have been taken advantage of. The hCOW table (that’s place points for regularity i.e. running to handicap) will not really become meaningful until folk start to record a minimum of 5 results (out of the 8, or possibly 9, events). The handicap table shows how your handicap has changed and should be used when reviewing your performance to see why and where you did well (or badly!). In the Regatta table (place points for improvement of handicap) it will again need 5 results to count but a dnf, or dns, attracts points of one more than the last finisher so everyone’s in the mix.