Archers: Archers interested in competing in the MICA can register with their club, or a local club that has registered a MICA site. Archers in good standing with Archery Canada, which is a member of World Archery Americas, are eligible to shoot the Multi-sites Indoor Archery Championships of Americas. These archers can shoot at any approved Host Site throughout the Americas.

Clubs: The MICA competition day at your club must be registered in the Archery Canada tournament registration system, I@nseo. The host site has the option of registering the event for World Records; this is not done automatically. MICA Sites are subject to Archery Canada registration fees, as outlined below:

• Registration with Archery Canada only: $35.00
• Registration with Archery Canada & World Archery: $60.00

If you need assistance registering your site, please visit the I@nseo resource document.  When registering the event in the calendar, the organizer should ensure MICA is in the title of the event and check off in the options that it is a MICA Site.

Archer’s registration fee’s are determined by the host club. Please contact the club for more information.

Club fee’s are subject to the Archery Canada tournament registration fee, as outlined below:

• Registration with Archery Canada only: $35.00
• Registration with Archery Canada & World Archery: $60.00

Registering with World Archery is optional.

Individual Competition:

Eligibility: Archers in good standing with a National Archery Federation member of World Archery Americas are eligible to shoot the multi-site 18-meter Archery Championships of Americas. These archers can shoot at any approved Host Site throughout the Americas.

Distance: The event consists of the 18-meter World Archery Round, i.e. One (1)round of sixty (60) arrows.

Categories:

U-15:

• Compound Women
• Compound Men
• Barebow Women
• Barebow Men
• Recurve Women
• Recurve Men

U-18:

• Compound Women
• Compound Men
• Barebow Women
• Barebow Men
• Recurve Women
• Recurve Men

U-21:

• Compound Women
• Compound Men
• Barebow Women
• Barebow Men
• Recurve Women
• Recurve Men
• Compound Women Open (Para)
• Compound Men Open (Para)
• Recurve Women Open (Para)
• Recurve Men Open (Para)
• W1 Women (Para)
• W1 Men (Para)

Senior:

• Compound Women
• Compound Men
• Barebow Women
• Barebow Men
• Recurve Women
• Recurve Men
• Compound Women Open (Para)
• Compound Men Open (Para)
• Recurve Women Open (Para)
• Recurve Men Open (Para)
• W1 Women (Para)
• W1 Men (Para)
• VI and 2/3 together

50+:

• Compound Women
• Compound Men
• Barebow Women
• Barebow Men
• Recurve Women
• Recurve Men

Equipment divisions

*  Recurve division, according to World Archery Rules.

*  Compound division, according to World Archery Rules.

*  Barebow division, according to World Archery Rules.

Age Classes

• An athlete may participate in the U-15 Class if he/she is younger than 14 or if his/her 14th birthday takes place during the year of the tournament. For
  the 2025 MICA: archers born in 2011 or later.
  • An athlete may participate in the U-18 Class if he/she is younger than 17 or if his/her 17th birthday takes place during the year of the tournament. For the 2025 MICA: archers born in 2008 or later.
  • An athlete may participate in the U-21 Class if he/she is younger than 20 or if his/her 20th birthday takes place during the year of the tournament. For the 2025 MICA: archers born in 2005 or later.
  • An athlete may participate in the 50+ Class if he/she is older than 50 or if his/her 50th birthday takes place during the year of the tournament. For the 2025 MICA: archers born in 1975 or before.
  • All ages are eligible to compete in the Senior Class. U15, U18, U21, and 50+may choose to compete in a Senior class at their discretion.
  • U18 also may choose to compete in the U21 class at his/her discretion.
  • Should the number of individual archers in one age category be fewer than 8, the registered participants in this category may be moved to the next eligible individual category.

Para Categories: In 2025, WA Para categories (Compound, Recurve and W1) except for the VI, will be offered in the Senior and U21 Categories only. The VI category will be gender-free and only one in terms of age. There will be no separate U18 or 50+ para categories.

Para classification: Only archers who have a valid international or national classification card will be accepted in the para categories. A copy of each archer’s
classification card (national) must be submitted to World Archery Americas together with the results list, unless the archer’s classification card is already in the World Archery Americas classification database. 

Archers with disabilities who have not been classified may compete in the able-bodied categories.

Distance

The event consists of the 18-meter World Archery Indoor Round, i.e. One (1) round of sixty (60) arrows.

Target Face

• The Recurve, barebow and W1 categories shoot at a 40 cm diameter face, a 40 cm vertical or triangular face, whatever the age and gender, and do not
score with the inner ten ring. The diameter of the 10-ring for the recurve, barebow and W1 categories is 4 cm.
• The Compound divisions shoot at a 40 cm vertical or 40cm Triangular faces, and do score with the inner ten, whatever the age and gender. The diameter of the 10-ring for the compound division is 2 cm.
• All faces must be produced by a manufacturer licensed by WA.
• For the VI, the target face used is the full-size 60m target face. (see World Archery rule 21.12.8.4)

Warm-Up

A warm-up or practice period must be organized in each Host Site. The tournament may commence as soon as the practice (warm-up) is over, and the judges
are ready. During the warm-up period, the archers may shoot as many arrows as they wish during the practice ends.

Format of the event

At each Host Site the format must be 3 arrow ends, forty / thirty seconds per arrow (the choice between 40 and 30 to be made by each national federation).

Registration: The Host Club is responsible for setting the date, registration, promotion and timetable of the events.

Judging: The Host Club is responsible for providing the appropriate number of judges, and the Director of Shooting. (At smaller Host Sites this may be the same person.)

Score Cards and results report: Score cards are to be retained by the host site coordinator until August 1st at which time they may be destroyed. The number of tens and nines shot by each archer and team must be included in the excel template to report results to the MICA Coordinator. If no tens or nines are reported, the archer or team will get zero for these totals with the disadvantage of losing any possible ties.

Multiple face scoring (individual)

Three possible situations may occur when shooting at multiple faces (either vertical or triangular).
1. More than one arrow is shot at a single five-ring face. In this case, the highest of the two values becomes a miss, but still counts as a value (M) for this end. For instance, if there is a 10 and an 8, the 10 becomes a miss, and the score of the two arrows on this face will be 8, M.
2. More than three arrows are shot in one end. This may mean that either two arrows were shot at one single face, or that one of the four arrows did not hit any of the three target faces. If two arrows were shot at one single face, the procedure described in paragraph 1 above should apply first. For instance. A 10 and an 8 in the upper face, a 9 in the middle face, and a 7 in the lower face. The ten in the upper face becomes a miss, but we still have four values: 9, 8, 7, M. When there are four values, you score the lower three: 8, 7, M. If there are four arrows, but one of them did not hit any of the three faces, the fourth
arrows will be a Miss, and you will score the three lower values.
3. An arrow shot out of time. The archer loses the highest scoring arrow for that end.

Should it happen that in one end the archer makes the three “mistakes” described in the paragraphs above, they should be handled in the same order as in 1, 2 and 3 above.

Categories

There will be a team event in each of the categories accepted for the individual event.

Team Composition

A team is made of three (3) archers from the same club, regional association, league or other local archery organization who have the same gender, age class
and equipment division. If an archer belongs to several clubs, he/she will be allowed to shoot for the club through which he/she became a member of his/her National Archery Federation. If a team is formed by archers in different age groups, the results of the team must be reported in the senior category (or U-21 if the team is formed by U-21 and U-18 archers only). For the Para Categories, a team (double) shall be formed by two archers in the same category as determined by their classification. This means that W1 archers cannot be paired with archers in the open categories.

Eligibility

The teams/ clubs composed of archersin good standing with a National Archery Federation, which is a current member of World Archery Americas, are eligible to shoot the Multi-site 18 meter Championship of the Americas.  Each team must be registered by the Site Coordinator before the first scoring arrow of the team event.

Team format and distance

The event is shot according to the rules for the 18-meter Match Round team event, but without DIRECT opponents. The team event consists of 4 ends of 6
arrows (two per archer) shot in 2 minutes at 18meters, for a total of 24 arrows. Only one round is shot. Recurve and barebow teams will shoot for score (24 arrows) and not following the set system. Para doubles will shoot 4 arrows per end (2 per archer) in 80 seconds.

Equipment divisions

*  Recurve division, according to WA Rules.

*  Compound division, according to WA Rules.

*  Barebow division, according to WA Rules.

Minimum number of teams

A team category will receive medals only when the number of teams with reported results is equal or larger than four.

Target Face

• The Recurve, barebow and W1 divisions shoot at 40 cm diameter faces, or 40 cm vertical or triangular face, whatever the age and gender and do not
  score with the inner ten ring. The diameter of the ten-ring for these categories is 4 cm.
• The Compound divisions shoot at 40 cm triple or triangular faces, and do score with the inner ten, whatever the age and gender. The diameter of the ten-
  ring for these categories is 2 cm.
• When triple faces are used, the team will have two triple faces, and one arrow is shot at each center. Para teams will shoot at 4 faces.
• All faces must be produced by a manufacturer licensed by WA.

Warm -up

A warm-up period or practice must be organized at each Host Site.  During this warm-up period, teams may shoot as many arrows as they wish in each two (2) minute period.

Shooting format of the team event

At all the Host Sites, the team shooting format shall be in 6 arrows ends, shot in 2 minutes. During the 2 minutes each of the 3 team members
must shoot 2 arrows. During this period a maximum of one team member should be on the shooting line, while the 2 other team members should be behind a one-meter line. The World Archery rules for the WA 18-meter Match Team Round apply. Para teams will be formed by two archers and will shoot their four arrows in 80 seconds.

Ties

Because there is no possibility for breaking ties using shoot-offs, ties will be administered as follows:
• Ties for all positions will be solved considering the number of 10s and then 9s shot by a team. If this system does not break the tie, the following will apply:
• If there is a tie for first place, 2 (or as many as are tied) gold medals will be awarded and a bronze (if there are more than 3 tied, there will not be a bronze.
• If there is a tie for second place, Gold, 2 (or as many as are tied) silver medals will be awarded and no bronze; • If there is a tie for 3rd place, Gold, Silver and 2 (or as many as are tied) bronze medals will be awarded.

Score Cards

Score cards are to be retained by the host site coordinator until August 1st, at which time they may be destroyed.

Multiple face scoring (team)

The procedure will be similar as described for individual scoring.
The team will have 6 faces, while in the individual there are only 3, but the same principles will apply in case more than one arrow is found on one single face, and if the total number of arrows exceeds six.

All results should be sent to mica@archerycanada.ca no later than December 21st, 2025.

World Archery America’s will distribute the results to their members, and Archery Canada will post and distribute once available.

Medals are determined by World Archery America’s and shipped to the Archery Canada office. Once received, Archery Canada will ship to the medalists club from distribution.

Exact dates cannot be determined for shipping medals. On average, they are sent to the Archery Canada office from August-September.

• Reporting Spreadsheet – March 2020
• Individual Scorecard: PDF – Updated March 2020
• Team Scorecard: Word  | PDF

Score Cards: Score cards are to be retained by the host site coordinator until August 1st at which time they may be destroyed.

NOTE:

Scores must be submitted to mica@archerycanada.ca using the excel sheet. Entering scores into I@nseo is not sufficient for result entry for this championship

Before the tournament: Download the Excel reporting spreadsheet (provided above) and make
sure you are familiar with how to use it. Ensure that you are capable of entering the information and
sending it as an email attachment.

After the tournament: Send the individual and team results from your Host Site to your National MICA Coordinator via email using the Excel spreadsheet provided. Include your Host Site name in the name of the Excel file. Please be sure to include all information required, including the number of 10’s and 9’s.

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