07/12/2026
Hello everyone,
Let me up front apologize for the long post. Here we go!
First, I want to thank everyone for making it out to the Championship. We had a total of 73 archers show up, making it one of the largest championship rounds ever. Competition was going great, but after the fourth scoring end around 11:15 am, we had to cancel due to lightning. Just so everyone is aware - I continued to monitor afterwards and the lightning lasted until about 4 pm, so it's a good thing we chose to go ahead and cancel around 12:30 pm instead of chancing everyone's afternoon and drive home. We may have had a short window to get the archers back on the field, but we would have had to stop again soon after.
We are working out the details on getting all the scores sorted and we'll use the four scoring ends as a basis to figure out all division winners. From there, we will contact all the winners regarding the medals. As a reminder, current scores are listed here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1aZKHZsv2XtXNJ3kDGQ4a1rW9M0p-_zHC1JiBxhWloEE/
Second, it has come to my realization that the original information that was posted about the Texas Outdoor Target Series on TSAA's website is now unlisted, so there is much confusion about how the series is ran. This is a failure on our part... even though we have listed brief details on the Sport80 event information page, we could have done a better job being more informative.
When Stacey and I took over as Tournament Directors, our job was to maintain the series with little to no changes. Unfortunately, the TSAA website has little to no information about this currently. Also, as most are aware, Eyes on Score does not tally the scores properly to work with how the series is ran, so we went back to paper scorecards until that system is compatible. Due to this, please disregard the scores listed on TSAA's website as they are not complete nor correct.
Third, I used the Wayback Machine (web.archive.org) to dig up the former TSAA website to verify the TOTS rules: https://web.archive.org/web/20250327025354/https://www.tsaa.us/events/texas-outdoor-target-series-tots/
Here is the gist as well as some snippets regarding the current Field of Play:
- All target distances and faces mirror each age/divisions' USA Archery outdoor target format. Xs and X+10s are tallied for tie breakers.
- Each series or location is three 36-arrow games, of which your best two count towards that series score. It can be the first and third game, second and third, whatever... you don't even need to shoot all three, just two. But note only the first two games (NOT the best two) can be submitted for official records, during a sanctioned tournament only.
- The best two series scores throughout the season get counted towards each archers' cumulative score.
- The championship is a 72-arrow round, multiplied twice (to mimic a 1440 two-day score) and is added to the cumulative score.
- Winners that finish first, second and third receive medals based on their total cumulative score, with two series shoots and the championship required to receive a medal.
- Male and females are awarded separate across all classes and divisions. All age classes and some equipment divisions are combined due to participation numbers.
- Age classes combined for medals:
= Yeoman (U10), U13 and U15
= U18 and U21
= Senior and all Masters
- Equipment divisions for medals:
= Barebow, Traditional and Longbow (combined)
= Recurve
= Compound
= Fixed Pin
= Para Compound
= Para Recurve
= Para W1
- The separate age classes and equipment divisions are still logged in the event that state and national records are broken.
We would LOVE to see changes with separating some of the combined age classes and equipment divisions. Only boosting participation numbers will help. We will review the 2026 season's attendance to propose changes for next season once everything is all wrapped up.
Lastly, to be eligible for the Gallivanter pin, you had to attend three of the four series plus the championship. We were able to distribute most of the pins yesterday, but if you did not receive your pin, please contact us at [email protected] and we will verify and get you your award.
I apologize this is a very complex series and there hasn't been much transparency on how it operates. We're here to continue the legacy put in place in 2013 by John Magera and Tom Barker. If you have questions, concerns or ideas, please speak up at the TSAA public meetings.
-Jessie
