Sovereign Lake Nordic Club
HAYWOOD NORAM

November 25 & 26, 2006

SATURDAY, NOV. 25, 2006

• Madshus National Sprint Series
• Sprints, Classic Technique

SUNDAY, NOV, 26, 2006

• Men's Pursuit without a Break
• Women's Pursuit without a Break

Competitors in the JUVENILE and older categories (born in 1990 or earlier) must have one of the following:

• 2006/07 CCC competitor licence
• International FIS licence
• 2006/07 CCC ski licence

Competitors in the MIDGET classes (born in 1992) do not need a licence to ski in the event.
Only competitors entered in the OPEN categories with a valid CCC and/or International FIS licence are eligible to receive cash prizes.

For open class races, the current seeding period points lists (SPL's) for both distance races and sprint races prepared from the Canada Points list will be used to determine seeding.

For all races the Senior Men and Junior Men and the Senior Women and Junior Women classes will be combined for seeding purposes and run as single open classes. The open classes will be separated into individual categories (Senior Men, Junior Men, Senior Women and Junior Women) for awards and results listing.

Mass start
In the mass start race (Pursuit without a Break) Open Men and Open Women classes will be seeded by using the Distance SPL. The best skier gets position one in the start grid. Those not on the Distance SPL will be drawn as a group and placed behind the last SPL skier.

Sprints
In the sprint races seeding for the qualification round for Open Men (Senior Men and Junior Men) and Open Women ( Senior Women and Junior Women) will be done by Sprint SPL. Skiers will be grouped and bib assignment within the groups will be by Sprint SPL ranking. Skiers with CCC licences but no CCC points will be grouped and drawn together and skiers with CCBC ski licences will be grouped and drawn together. All other age classes will be grouped according to licences. National licence holders will be drawn before Provincial licence holders.

In the open class of NORAM races, CCC or FIS licenced skiers will receive preferred seeding and all other entries will be seeded lower.

Foreign competitors with FIS points will be included in the top seed and placed in that seed as best possible by comparing their FIS points to those of the Canadian competitors.

A skier registering without a valid licence will be issued a CCC Ski Day Licence ($5.00) and be seeded accordingly. The charge for the licence will be added to the entry fee.

A CCC Ski license issued by skiers club after registration will not be valid for this event.

CCC Competitor Licences must be ordered in advance through the competitors' club and cannot be issued by the race organizers.

Please ensure that your licence is up to date and that you know the number when you register for the race.
Registrations must have valid licences to be accepted.

A completed Online Race Entry Form and Event Participant Waiver Form must be received by Sovereign Lake Nordic Club by deadline Sunday Nov. 19, 2006- 7:00pm.

All competitors except those holding valid CCC licences must sign waiver form.

On-line registrants can sign waiver forms the morning of race at bib pick-up.

ON-LINE: Please click for Online Registration on Zone4

LATE ENTRIES WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED

To give coaches and skiers an opportunity to check entries a list of the skiers registered for the races will be posted on the Sovereign Lake Nordic website and at the Sovereign Lake day lodge after the race entry deadline on Sunday, November 19 - 7:00pm.

Competition Secretary must be notified about changes and corrections by Tuesday evening.

Please contact:
Email: romeiplummer@shaw.ca
Phone: 542-1336 (Olaf Plummer, office hours 9am-5pm)

The draw for each race will be done under the supervision of the TD or a designated Jury member prior to the race and in time for the coaches meeting. The draw will be done using Zone4 Race Management System.

Draw for Saturday's Individual Sprint Qualification round will be held on Friday and start lists distributed at the Friday coaches meeting.

Draw for Sunday's mass start Pursuit without a Break for men/women will be done Friday and start lists will be available on Saturday morning.

Coaches meetings will be held as follows:

• Friday Nov. 24th, 2006 at 7:00pm downstairs at the Sovereign Lake day lodge.

ENTRIES MUST BE PAID FOR BEFORE BIB PICK-UP.
Start lists for Saturday Nov. 25th Sprint Qualification Round for men/women will be available at the coaches meeting Friday Nov. 24th and on Saturday morning. Bib pick-up will be on Saturday morning at the Sovereign Lake day lodge between 7:30am- 8:30am.

Start lists for Sunday Nov. 26th Pursuit without a Break will be available Saturday and Sunday morning. Bib pick-up will be Sunday morning between 7:30am- 8:30am at the Sovereign Lake day lodge.

RACE DAY #1

Individual Sprints (classic technique)
Category	Distance
Open (Senior & Junior) Men / Women	1000-1200m
Junior Boys / Girls	1000-1200m
Juvenile Boys / Girls	500m
Midget Boys /Girls	500m

The Individual Sprint competition will consist of a classic technique Interval start qualification round of all skiers in each class with the top skiers from the qualification round advancing to the heats and quarter final heats. For the qualification round the Senior and Junior Men/Women will be combined in an Open Men/Women class. The top 30 Open Men/Women will advance to the Senior Men/Women heats and quarter final heats and the top 16 Junior Men/Women will advance to the Junior Men/Women quarter final heats.

The Juniors who qualify in the top 30 of the Open class in the qualifying round will race in the Senior quarter final heats.

In all other classes 16 skiers will advance to the quarter final heats.

RACE DAY #2

Pursuit without a Break Men / Women (classic - free)
Category	Distance	Courses to be used
Senior men	7.5km C + 7.5km F	(3 x 2.5km C + 3 x 2.5km F)
Junior men	7.5km C + 7.5km F	(3 x 2.5km C + 3 x 2.5km F)
Junior boys	5km C + 5km F	(2 x 2.5km C+ 2 x 2.5km F)
Juvenile boys	2.5km C + 2.5km F	(2.5km C+ 2.5km F)
Midget boys	1.5km C + 1.5km F	(1.5km C + 1.5km F)
Senior women	5km C + 5km F	(2 x 2.5km C + 2 x 2.5km F)
Junior women	5km C + 5km F	(2 x 2.5km C + 2 x 2.5km F)
Junior girls	5km C + 5km F	(2 x 2.5km C + 2 x 2.5km F)
Juvenile girls	2.5km C+ 2.5km F	(2.5km C+ 2.5km F)
Midget girls	1.5km C+ 1.5km F	(1.5km C + 1.5km F)

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