Any Archery Canada club or registrant can participate. You can either participate as an Individual Archer or with a Team! Below are some of the benefits to participating in the mailmatch competition:

• Convenient, compete in a National Competition, without travelling farther than your home club
• Online Live Results
• Fast Results Reporting

In order to host the Indoor Mail Match, a host club must be an Archery Canada affiliated club.

Exceptions are made for extenuating circumstances (e.g., athletes attending post-secondary school in the United States).

Archers can register/submit payment online here: Register for 2025 Indoor Mailmatch – beginning Dec 1

Participating clubs, should appoint (1) person to act as the mailmatch coordinator. This person will collect and update the scores for all participants at your club with Archery Canada. You can register anytime before February 17th, anytime after that, will not allow for enough time to obtain the (6) scores required for a final score

Club Coordinators should contact the Indoor Mailmatch Coordinator to receive their clubs score sheet: indoormailmatch@archerycanada.ca 

It only costs $15.00 (+ processing fee’s if registering online) per archer to participate. Club Coordinators need to register all club participants to the Indoor Mailmatch coordinator by February 17th. Clubs or archers registered after this date, will be asked to pay a $25.00 late fee on top of the archer’s registration fee

The rules below provide just a brief summary. For a full list of all the rules, please consult Archery Canada Rule Book 2.

Individual Archers:

1. Each Archer can submit (1) score per week for this event
2. Scorecards need to be signed by another Indoor Mailmatch participant, or another Archery Canada Member
3. Scorecards need to be provided to your club’s coordinator to upload
4. Payment should be submitted along with the first score submission.
5. To contend for medals, each participant must submit a minimum of (6) scores
6. Participants must be Archery Canada members in good standing

Teams:

1. The team must consist of 3-4 members from the same club
2. When submitting the first score for the team, team members names must also be recorded
3. Teams must have the following composition:

• • At least (1) Finger Shooter
  • At least (1) Release Shooter
  • at least (1) woman, para, or JR or younger archer

4. There can only be (1) team per club
5. All team members must be an Archery Canada member in good standing. 
6. The team scores will consist of the scores from all (3) arches, as outlined in point 3. Not the best 3 scores out of 4 archers

Both individual and team scores will be from a Canadian 300 Round, shooting 30 Arrows. A Canadian 300 Round is using a 40 cm Triple Face or the full 40 cm face. 

A 60 cm triple face, or a full 60 cm face can be used for the following categories:

• Cub Recurve
• Cub Barebow
• All Pre-Cub Categories

You can consult rule 4.5.2.9

As we continue the trial of the inclusion of the Traditional and Instinctive Categories. They will use the 40cm face.

Live Results will be posted on the Archery Canada website throughout the competition. The top 3 archers in each category will be awarded a medal for their achievement. Additionally, a Gold Pin is award to the top score within each Archery Classification. Classification groups are as follows:

All new competitors will be unclassified until the end of the competition period, where there score will then determine the section they are competing in. If you have a classification from a previous year, you will compete in that classification the following year, even if the archer scores outside of the score range for that class. 

An Archer can apply for reclassification, and must direct any applications to the Indoor Mailmatch coordinator, who will act as the authority for the decision. 

Additionally, if an archer shoots two consecutive ends of three arrows in the 10 ring, or one end of six arrows in the ten ring, they can be awarded a Six-for-Sixty pins. These pins are available to purchase by the club(s) following score verification

 Each scoring week runs from the Monday to the Sunday.

The 2024 Live score sheet will be available here!

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Any Archery Canada affiliated club or members can participate in mailmatch.

The mailmatch can only take place at an affiliated club or range.

Archers are registered online via the Archery Canada Registration system. The club coordinator will need to contact the Archery Canada Mailmatch coordinator (indoormailmatch@archerycanada.ca) to inform them that you will be participating this year. From there, you will be provided with all the items you will need to report the names of the archers and the sheets to upload the scores, as you receive them .

The cost is a flat rate of $15.00 per archer to participate (+ processing fee through the portal). Notification of participation needs to be sent to the Archery Canada mailmatch coordinators by February 17th latest. If notification of participation or the scores for the first 6 weeks are submitted to the Archery Canada Coordinators after February 17th, then a late fee of $25.00 will be added on top of the archers registration fees.

• Each Scoring week runs Monday – Sunday
• First week scores can be submitted: January 5th
• Final Date for Notification of Participation/First Score Submission with no late fee: February 15th
• Final week of eligible scores: March 24th-30th
• Final Date to submit Scores: April 4th
• Scores to be finalized and posted week of April 7th

All participants, especially those contending for a medal will need to be an Archery Canada member. They can begin to participate from when they renew or become a member. Therefore, if they shoot all throughout January through to March, and do not become a member until April, there scores will not be in contention for the competition. If they become a member the end of January, and shoot all throughout February and March, they can be in contention for medals

The final score used is the average of their top 6 scores. As long as they submit (6) scores, they will receive a final score and classification.

The club should arrange it so all participants are in, and shooting for mailmatch at the same time. They should only be shooting to obtain a mailmatch score once per week.

Score cards should be double scored, and/or witnessed by another indoor mailmatch participant or Archery Canada member. This needs to be verified by the Club coordinator upon collection of the scores/scorecards. The mailmatch shoot will either need to be supervised by a local judge, or the Club’s Mailmatch Coordinator.

Once you notify the Archery Canada Indoor Mailmatch coordinator of participation, they will send you all the items you will need for you archers and their scores. A online Google Sheet will be provided to you. Here you can input all the participating archers names, their categories and scores. These entries will be automatically inputted into the overall master score sheet, posted live on the Archery Canada website.

Archers can shoot in as many equipment categories as they wish, but they will be required to pay the $10.00 registration fee per category they register. Please note, an archer can compete in multiple equipment categories but only in one age group.

Send an email to information@archerycanada.ca providing the score cards, number of pins needed, mailing address and a contact email. A member of Archery Canada will follow up on the request.