2012 Hennessy’s-WPA World Championships Qualifying Criteria

Qualifying Criteria:

1. Finish in the top 30% of your board division at the 2011 Hennessey’s-WPA World Championships (Championship race only).
2. Finish in the top 30% of your board division at the 2011 Hennessey’s-WPA U.S. Paddle Championships (Long course only).
3. Qualify for a Regional Championship in 2012 by finishing in the top 50% of your board division and or ranking age divisions (see rule 15) in a WPA regional series in 2012.
4. Finish in the top 20% of your board division at a “WPA National Race” in 2011. (must be a ranked division and have a minimum of 5 participants)
5. Finished in the top 20% of the selected international events to be announced.
6. The WPA and Hennessey’s reserves the right to hold spots open to invite selected paddlers to participate in the 2012 Hennessey’s WPA World Championship race that may not have access or the ability to participate in any or limited points races and events listed.
7. All qualifying spots will be determined from a person’s highest qualifying option as listed  1 – 6.  If a person qualifies from option 1 and option 2 their spot in option 2 would be passed to the next person not qualified and so on.

Participants do not need to be current WPA member if you have qualified under options 1 & 2.

2012 WPA Ranking Points System

Points will be given to all finishers in each division meeting the minimum participant requirements stated in rule 13.b in all sanctioned points races in each region with only the top six races for each participant to be totaled for yearend rankings.  Points can be earned by Regional and National race series to qualify for a Regional Championship and World Championship races.   Points will be offered for both Short and Long course participants in sanctioned events based on the following points scale:

ELITE- long Course (5+ miles) Points breakdown

• 1^st = 1,000
• 2^nd= 750
• 3^rd= 550
• 4^th= 400
• 5^th= 325
• 6^th= 250
• 7^th= 200
• 8^th= 150
• 9^th= 125
• 10th= 100
• 11^th= 99, 12^th= 98, 13^th= 97, 14^th= 96 and so on with one less point for each place to 90^th with each place after receiving a minimum of 10 points.

OPEN- short Course (2-4 miles) point breakdown

• 1^st = 500
• 2^nd= 375
• 3^rd= 275
• 4^th= 200
• 5^th= 160
• 6^th= 125
• 7^th= 100
• 8^th= 80
• 9^th= 65
• 10th= 50
• 11^th= 49, 12^th= 48, 13^th= 47, 14^th= 46 and so on with one less point for each place to 40^th with each place after receiving a minimum of 5 points.

Related posts:

1. 2011 WPA U.S. Race Series
2. RSP3: Oceanside, Sunday, July 17