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2003 WWAC/PACIFIC KNIFE THROWING CHAMPIONSHIPS! by Rick Lemberg March 9th - 13th, 2003. The WWAC/PKT Championships will include: AKTA Accuracy Event - Open Tournament - 40 throws from 12 feet (1/2 or Full Spin is OK). There will be a cut-off after 20 throws for the finals based on score, allowing all to enter and throw, but only the qualifiers will do the 20-40th throws from 12 feet and then go on to the 18 foot line. The last 2 years, we cut off at 8-10 throwers for the finals. The cut point (number of throwers) will be announced before the contest begins, based on the number of participants. After all entered throwers get their 20 throws on the charts, we will announce the qualifiers. The finalists will throw 20 more knives from 12 feet, then throw 40 from 18 feet. The finalists will then throw 40 throws with Tomahawks from 14 feet to complete the AKTA Accuracy course and complete their 12 throws for the winning totals. As always, Thomi Hawk and his club will run a completely separate WWAC Tomahawk Championship Event with their own rules, as well. Thus, all participants will have another Tomahawk event in addition to the PKT Finals round. In addition to Accuracy there will be at least 3 other specialty events: 1) SPEED - Most AKTA Regulation Knives stuck in 2 side-by-side target faces in 20 seconds. 8 ft line. Only knives still properly stuck at the end of 20 seconds count. Contestants may use a table to hold their knives in ready position to pick up quickly, but NO help is allowed from other people during the contest. 2) DISTANCE - PKT Rules - 5 Regulation (1/2 spin minimum) Throws from any distance. Must stick in the 16" target face chosen. Beating the farthest throw gets you another 5 throws and passage to the next round. Rounds continue until all throws are done in this method. 3) OBSTACLE COURSE - Custom Course with NO practice allowed for ANY participant in advance. Must stick the 8-12 throws in the targets as shown before the contest. Fastest time wins. 5 Second Penalty for each miss during the event. Only 3 knives allowed per contestant. All throwers must retrieve their own knives during the contest. (The PKT Las Vegas will continue to operate with AKTA Nationally sanctioned rules plus the pre-stated PKT events that we did last year.) If you have a performance show, many agents come to the Vegas events to recruit. You are encouraged to register and perform a "Showcase Act" as well. These are 5 minute performances for the crowd and are a lot of fun. Lee and I have done it and have indeed gotten work as a result. We are preparing a color info pack for the event with more detail. Please e-mail us at Knifethrwr@aol.com with your name, mailing address and telephone number if you would like a packet sent to you. Take a look under www.wwac.com (under the convention link) for all the hotel and fee details. Bring your ropes, whips, and fast-draw gear as well as there are world championship events for all these disciplines there as well. You can also meet, play with and learn from the best performers in the world in all these arenas all week long! Western Clothing is preferred but optional. Please do not carry handguns openly in the hotel. Hope to see you all there! Article Contributed by: Rick Lemberg - PKT Director KNIFETHRWR@aol.com The Complete EarthHunt Gallery Results Here are all the scores from the WWAC/PKT Championships of Knife Throwing for 2003: ACCURACY: (12 ft + 18ft + 14ft 'hawks) We cut to 8 finalists after 20 throws from 12 feet. Those 8 continued ALL DAY to throw 120 total throws as stated. We have recorded the scores separately (below), then totalled together for the overall: 12FT (Total of 40 Throws): 1st) Joe Darrah - 81 (won Throw-Off = 9 to 8) 2nd) Jim Tanner - 81 3rd) Mike Bainton - 80 4th) Rick Lemberg - 73 5th) Micah Posada - 69 6th) Art Avalos - 66 7th) Bob Greenlee - 63 8th) Carl Geddes - 52 Here are scores from some of the other Throwers that did not qualify & scores after 20 Throws only: 9th) Bernie Bang - 30 10th) Jindrich (Henry) Zobl - 27 11th) John Bailey - 26 12th) Daniel Clark - 26 13th) Derek Johnston - 25 14th) Kevin Ransey - 21 15th) Jack Fairchild - 17 16t) Jim Slade - 14 16t) James Tanner - 14 18th) Mark "The Whip" Weinger - 12 8 lower scores were not posted by request 18FT (Total of 40 Throws): 1st) Mike Bainton - 61 2nd) Joe Darrah - 59 3rd) Jim Tanner - 56 4th) Rick Lemberg - 48 5th) Bob Greenlee - 45 6th) Art Avalos - 42 7th) Carl Geddes - 40 8th) Micah Posada - 25 14FT HAWKS (Total of 40 Throws): 1st) Jim Tanner - 93 2nd) Joe Darrah - 75 3rd) Bob Greenlee - 73 4th) Micah Posada - 71 5th) Carl Geddes - 69 6th) Art Avalos - 60 7th) Mike Bainton - 54 8th) Rick Lemberg - 40 OVERALL ACCURACY (Total of 120 Throws): 1st) Jim Tanner - 81 + 56 + 93 = 229 2nd) Joe Darrah - 81 + 59 + 75 = 215 3rd) Mike Bainton - 80 + 61 + 54 = 195 4th) Bob Greenlee - 63 + 45 + 73 = 181 5th) Art Avalos - 66 + 42 + 60 = 168 6th) Micah Posada - 69 + 25 + 71 = 165 7tie) Carl Geddes - 52 + 40 + 69 = 161 7tie) Rick Lemberg - 73 + 48 + 40 = 161 PKT 2003 SPEED CHAMPIONSHIP Most sticks in 20 seconds (still in the target). (Record = Lee Fugatt in 2002 = 19) 1st) Jim Tanner - 15 (sticks in 20 Seconds) 2nd) Joe Darrah - 14 3t) John Bailey - 13 (+ 17 in a Throw-Off for 3rd) 4t) Bob Greenlee - 13 (+15 in a Throw-Off for 3rd) 5t) Derek Johnston - 12 5t) Mike Bainton - 12 7th) Micah Posada - 11 8th) Rick Lemberg - 10 9th) Daniel Clark - 9 10th) Art Avalos - 8 11th) Bernie Bang - 7 PKT 2003 LONG DISTANCE CHAMPIONSHIP The distance event consisted of throwing 5 knives until you got a stick at whatever distance you chose. If someone beat you, that was the new distance. If you didn't stick any knife in 5 throws you were out of the competition. You only needed to throw as far as the others to beat the competition, NOT as far as YOU could throw from. 1st) Micah Posada - 28ft 9 1/2" 2nd) Joe Darrah - 26ft 3" 3rd) No one else made the 3rd round. PKT 2003 OBSTACLE COURSE CHAMPIONSHIP 10 Tiny Targets - Fastest Time Plus a 5 Second Penalty for Each Miss. 4 Knives Maximum - 8 foot Line. 1st) Joe Darrah - 1:21 2nd) Micah Posada - 1:52 3rd) John Bailey - 2:13 4th) Daniel Clark - 2:28 5th) Rick Lemberg - 2:23 6th) Bob Greenlee - 2:51 7th) Bernie Bang - 3:18 8th) Jim Tanner - 3:23 9th) Derek Johnston - 4:15 10th) Mike Bainton - 4:22 11th) Mike Murphy - 4:44 12th) Art Avalos - 4:46 13th) Carl Geddes - 5:26 14th) Jack Fairchild - 5:57 15th) Kevin Ramsey - 7:38 It's free, and there's no obligation. |
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