[CUCBC Contacts] May Bumps 2022 - Getting On Race Divisions and Information

[Luke Pattison]

Hi all,

We’ve have a few queries over how we determine which crews need to participate in the Getting-On race - I realise we hadn’t been overly clear on the number of divisions that will run this year, which may explain the confusion, so apologies for that. I’ll attempt to explain the process now:

The number of lower boats each college enters year to year changes the most, after entries close the Senior Committee have to make a decision on how many divisions to run based on the number of entries, this year there will be 9 divisions. The composition of Women’s and Men’s crews in the split division is based on the proportion of entries from Womens’ and Mens’ crews - this year the 9th division will comprise of 6 Women's crews and 12 Men’s crews. CUCBC then take off an equal number of boats as those ‘new' entries for the Women’s and Men’s competitions, up to a max. of 18 to determine which crews must race the Getting-On to ‘qualify’ for the main Bumps races.

Due to the number of divisions and entries from Women's and Men’s crews changing each year (including the loss of crews that competed in the last round of Bumps, but did not enter this year), the the cut off point for determining which crews have to compete in the Getting-On race will change each year - i.e. crews are not guaranteed their place in Bumps if they finished 17 positions from the foot of their competition the last time Bumps was run. Those crews required to race the Getting-On race this year, who have a position from May Bumps 2019, will be put back on the 2022 start order where they finished in 2019, if they are among the crews that ‘qualify’ for Mays 2022; new entries that ‘qualify’ will be inserted to the bottom of their competition randomly. 

Hopefully that explains why some of the crews you expected not to have to compete in the Getting-On race will have to qualify for Bumps this year.

Best wishes,

Luke

> On 1 Jun 2022, at 10:46, Luke Pattison <luke at cucbc.org> wrote:
> 
> Morning all,
> 
> The Mays Getting-On Race webpage has just been updated with division times / racing order, this can be viewed at https://www.cucbc.org/mays/gor <https://www.cucbc.org/mays/gor>.
> 
> Please also find attached detailed information for competition crews, which includes marshalling instructions - please ensure all coxes and bank parties have read these instructions carefully, these can also be accessed through the Getting-On Race webpage.
> 
> We are aware of the large number of exams taking place on Friday 10th and appreciate that many crews will have a preference to race in the later (6:30 pm) division, we are however limited by the number of crews we can safely run in each division - the current split of crews between the two divisions has been made randomly and equally for Mens’ and Womens’ boats. If your crew needs to swap divisions, it would help us if you could find a crew from the other division to swap with, swaps will need to be confirmed by both clubs concerned via email (to committee at cucbc.org <mailto:committee at cucbc.org>) before 5pm on Thursday 9th June.
> 
> If you wish to scratch a crew, the deadlines for informing us, by emailing commitee at cucbc.org <mailto:commitee at cucbc.org>, are as follows:
> The deadline for scratching completely for a full refund is Wednesday 8th June at 17:00.
> The deadline for scratching completely for half a refund is Thursday 9th June at 17:00.
> If you would like to switch a crew to racing for time only, you are eligible for a half refund so long as you tell us by Thursday 9th June at 17:00.
> 
> Crews which haven’t scratched and don’t race will still be charged the full entry fee.
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Luke
> CUCBC Executive Committee
> 
> <Mays22_GoR_CompetitorInfo.pdf>

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