The GBRA BAR Competition is a year long Georgia statewide competition to crown a BAR - Best All-Around Rider annually. In addition to the GBRA BAR Competition, which is open to out-of-state riders, GBRA will annually provide individual RR, TT and Criterium state championship events where the highest placed GA resident will be awarded the state championship in each event.

For this first year of the BAR series, the winner of each BAR category will receive a custom designed GBRA BAR jersey and an award/trophy. BAR Competition awards will be handed out to the winners for each category at the end of the season.

 

Introducing the Georgia Bicycle Racing Association

Best All-Around Rider (BAR) Competition

 

 

 

Promoter Information and Application

 

 

Overview of the GBRA BAR Competition

The GBRA BAR Competition is a year long Georgia statewide competition to crown a BAR - Best All-Around Rider annually. In addition to the GBRA BAR Competition, which is open to out-of-state riders, GBRA will annually provide individual RR, TT and Criterium state championship events where the highest placed GA resident will be awarded the state championship in each event.

 

For this first year of the BAR series, the winner of each BAR category will receive a custom designed GBRA BAR jersey and an award/trophy. BAR Competition awards will be handed out to the winners for each category at the end of the season.

 

 

Benefits for Race Promoters participating in the BAR Competition

✔   Increased visibility for your event

✔   Additional event promotion on the GBRA website and other Social Networking Sites

✔   Consistency between events across the GBRA calendar

✔   Increased turnout from BAR Competition racers

✔   Use of GBRA logo

✔   End of Season Awards

 

Requirements to be included in the BAR Competition

In order to be included in the BAR Competition, your event must be approved by the GBRA board as a part of the annual calendar, as determined at the annual meeting.

This requires:

• No date conflict with other GBRA calendar events
• A History of safely run events or a safety management plan for all new events or promoters
• Friendly, positive customer relations for all participants

In addition, as an Organizer/Promoter, the following requirements must be met:

• A completed application must be submitted and approved by the GBRA Board: http://www.gacycling.org/modules/xforms/index.php?form_id=3
• Event must be sanctioned by USA Cycling and run in compliance with USA Cycling guidelines.
• Races must be scored in accordance to the categories outlined by the BAR Competition below.
• Riders must race according to their licensed USA Cycling category.
• All required fees and results must be submitted in a timely manner. Failure to submit fees or results will result in future events being removed from the BAR Competition.
• Results must be submitted to GBRA within 48 hours of the conclusion of the final race of the event.
• Promoter must include the GBRA logo and website name/link on race announcements, websites, emails, and registration website.
• Promoter shall require a hand-signed USA Cycling Event Release Form from each event participant.
• Promoter shall obtain a Certificate of Insurance naming GBRA as an additional insured under all event liability insurance policies. Alternately, to be included under the insurance policy, GBRA can be added as a sponsoring club at no cost.
• If race fields are combined, each BAR category must be scored separately.

 

 

Race Categories

In order to properly award points and overall BAR Competition champions, the following categories must be included for road, criterium, and time trial events. A promoter may include additional categories that are not part of the GBRA BAR Competition, but these must be clearly marked as such on the race flyer.

 

 

Men	Masters	Women	Juniors
Pro 1	Masters 35+ (Masters Cat 4 and up only)	Women 1-2	Juniors 14 and Under
Cat 2	Masters 45+	Women 3	Juniors 15-18
Cat 3	Masters 55+	Women 4
Cat 4

 

Points Schedule

GBRA BAR positions for each racer shall be the sum of their highest earned-points performances from a maximum number of events in each road discipline, as follows:

Ø  Road Races – Best five (5) earned-points performances

Ø  Time Trials – Best five (5) earned-points performances

Ø  Criteriums – Best five (5) earned-points performances

 

For example, a rider may race 12 Criteriums in a season, but ONLY the highest 5 will count toward the total. Lower scores will be dropped as better results come in. This scoring system is built to reward all-around ability.

 

Ø  Points will be awarded 12 places deep.

Ø  All State Championship Events, and one-day Category A events will be worth approximately 1.5 times as many points.

Ø  There will be no transfer of points during the season. Riders will accumulate points ONLY in the category for which they compete.

Ø  In the event of a tie, the following criteria shall be applied in order until the riders are separated: 1) highest result in a Georgia state championship event; 2) the most BAR races participated in the 2010 season.

 

Point assignments will be as follows:

 

Place	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
RR, Crit, TT	25	21	18	16	14	12	10	8	6	4	2	1
Championships & one-day Category A events	38	32	27	24	21	18	15	12	9	6	3	2

 

 

Racer Requirements

• In order to participate in the GBRA BAR Competition, the racer must hold a valid annual USA Cycling license in good standing.
• One-day licenses and Men’s Cat 5 will not be eligible to earn points in the BAR Competition.
• For mixed class race events, riders must declare in what class (category or age group) they are competing. A rider who falls within the parameters of two classes for the same single race event, must choose the class in which they wish compete for BAR points before the race is held.
• Riders can not accumulate points for more than one class in a single race event. Riders may choose to race in two separate classes at a given event and attempt to accumulate points in both classes separately. (For example, a rider can race the Cat 3 and score points in that class and then later that day race the Masters and score points in the Masters BAR competition too).

 

 

The GBRA website will contain the most current BAR Competition standings and the most up to date calendar available at: http://www.gacycling.org