Setting up a trials competition questions

Hmm, i don't think you need too many rules.

First select a line, the difficulty of it shouldn't really matter, some
lines will be hard, some will be easy. IF the ride can make that line
without wrecking, let say they get 5 points, if they make it without
wrecking but it was sloppy, 4 points, if it takes 2 tries to get the
line, 3 points, If they use 3 tries to get the line, 2 points. If it
takes anything more than 3 times to get the line, 1 point.

You may want to section difficulties though, just to be fair, some
people wont be able to ever clear the lines some are clearing without
another few months of practice.

A tiebreaker could be adding street into the trials, jump from this
rock to this rock while doing a unispin, but then again, not everyone
can bust out street\freestyle moves. Another way could be to get chalk,
and put them on the tire, so have one person go first, and when he
jumps hell leave an imprint on where he jumped and landed, have the
other guy try to make the same line, Like the game HORSE used in
skateboarding and basketball.

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You could also lean more towards the biketrial set of rules, which has
dabs. This all very much depends on the skill level of your riders, and
the difficulty of the sections. In biketrialing, when you put your foot
on the ground, one point is substracted from a total of five. Putting
both feet on the ground means losing all five points. Ofcourse this
idea doesn't work directly for unicycles because when we dismount, we
put both feet on the ground straight away. You could just make it -1
for each dismount. You can fiddle with lots of things.

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If i tie was to occur maybe consider getting the tied riders to attempt
a moderately difficult line, but time them. The rider with the quickest
time wins the comp.
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Another good tie breaker would be to do a least hops rule. Whoever uses
the least amount of hops wins. This would clean up the line by getting
rid of all those hops used to gain balance.

Once again this one dthem redoing a line and each person may want to do
a different line so a substitute to this could be a still stand
competition or counting a long or high jump scores into the trials
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My personal favourite tie breaker is Rock Paper Scissors. I do believe
that Kris Holm and Ryan Atkins have settled a tie this way, and I
myself had a three way tie at TOque 2005 for second place in Sport
Trials, we decided it by rock paper scissors. I think that according
to Kris's rules, the tie breaker is to be decided by the riders that
tie. However, RPS is my favourite.

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another good tie breaker: have an nearly impossible "bonus" line that
can only be completed after all the others. if a tie *still* results.
rock/paper/scissors is a sensible method.

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I don't know if they use this in trials comps or not, but I think if
two+ people cleared the same section, a tie breaker could be whoever
can clear that section in the least amount of hops, corrective hops,
etc.

EDIT: never mind.

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Well for a trie breaker the 2 or more who tied could have a short street
comp...That was the trials riders have to be more rounded...

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I think the easiest set of rules would be the ones you have in your
first post.

Riders have as many tries as they can to clear as many sections as they
can in a given time limit. Depending how many sections there are, im
thinking an hour might be too short.

The good thing about this method is that you dont need alot of judges
to be watching over every section. At NAUCC 2005 you had a little check
sheet, and another rider participating in the competition would watch
you attempt a section. If you were successful they would sign there
name next to the section # (all sections had numbers).

There are no partial credit points, you either clear the entire section
or you dont. All sections were worth 1 point.

For judging, I would have maybe 3 categories (beginner, sport, pro like
in bike trials for example. or just beginner, intermediate, advanced).
Another option could be age groups, although I think categories would
be better.

You could put a B, I, A on each section to point out its difficulty.
Also i remember at nationals (05), there was more than line on the same
set of obstacles (just a harder variation of it).

As for ties i would say let the riders decide, or make sure to make
some sections hard enough that even they might not beable to complete
it.

Im guessing you might already know all this, but i hope my post wasnt
totally useless.

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teachndad said:

Hi Everyone,

On June 3, 2006 I am organizing the Los Angeles Unicycle Roundup with
the help of John Long (vivalargo). As part of the activities we are
working towards doing a trials competition on the man made rock
formations around the children’s play area.

I am looking for suggestions on how to set up the scoring for the
competition. One way would be to use the Kris Holm trials rules found
here http://www.unicycling.org/iuf/rulebook/trials.html However, this
is a small affair and I don’t think we need all the rules and penalties
at this time.

At the Cal MUni weekend last year, the trials competition scoring
system was really simple and seemed to work very well. Riders were
given a certain amount of time to ride all the sections. I think it
was an hour. Each time a rider completed a section, they received one
point from an observer/judge. Riders could attempt a section as many
times as they wanted. I am leaning towards this idea, but I am also
looking for any other ideas that could be considered.

Also, there are some very strong riders in the trials group that might
be able to clean all the sections. Does anyone have any ideas for a
tie breaker?

Finally, I am considering using chalk to mark the sections. At the
Keyesville trials competition, the sections were laide out using
plastic ribbon that was taped down onto the rocks with duct tape. Does
anyone have any other suggestions? The man made rock formations are
made out of concrete, but from a few feet away, they appear to be
real.

Thanks

The trials rules that you linked there are actually out of date. The
one point per line scoring method that you mention is in fact the
latest incarnation of the KH trials scoring system. Having been
involved in setting up a lot of trials comps, I would recommend the
latest KH rules.

The only thing required to set up such a competition are some clear
line descriptions. Tape or other markings are not always necessary, if
the lines are clearly described. Good lines often consist of very
simple instructions, IE: "get to top of pole", or, "get from this rock
to that rock without touching the ground" (as long as it is clearly
indicated which poles and rocks are in question). The idea is to define
a challenge and let riders creatively find a solution.

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Thanks everyone. All the responses are very helpful. I really
appreciate all the help!🙂

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