9th Collegiate Wushu Championships Official Rules

v 6.0 - 11/06/04

These are the official rules for the 2005 9th Collegiate Wushu Championship. Please read through the document thoroughly so as to avoid confusion. All questions may be directed to kungfu@ucdavis.edu.

 

Summary of Competition Format:

  • There are two classes of competition: Individual and Team.

    1) Individual - Open to current full time college students and one year alumni
    2) Team - Group of six current full time college students from the same college

  • There will be an award for Male and Female All-Around Champion. All-Around Champion is determined as the advanced competitor with the highest combined placings in the following four events:

    1) Emptyhand
    2) Short Weapon
    3) Long Weapon
    4) Other weapon or handform

  • There will be an award of "Outstanding Internal Competitor" to an advanced competitor, male or female, who competes in 3 or more advanced internal divisions.

  • There will be an award for Team Champion. Team Champion is determined as the team with highest team score. Team score is sum of points earned by each of six competitors (two per events per competitor) plus score from the required group set.

     

     

    Complete Rules and Regulations:

    Awards

  • In additional to normal medals awarded for placing in seperate divisions, awards will be given for the following categories:

    1) Male All-Around Champion
    2) Female All-Around Champion
    3) Outstanding Internal Competitor
    4) Team Champion

  • Any qualified full-time student (class 1) can compete for the individual titles, but only full teams can compete for the team title. (see eligibility rules below for definitions).

    Judging/Scoring

  • Competitors are not allowed to use the same form (or substantially the similar form) in more than one event. It is at the head judges' discretion as to whether this has occurred. If they judge a form to be substantially the same as one previously performed, the competitor will recieve an automatic 0.0 score for that 2nd event.

  • Standard 2003 IWuF judging criterion, scoring rules and arbitration procedures will be followed for all judging with the exception of Advanced Nanquan and Changquan, which will allow added difficulty points.

  • Difficulty Points - (Advanced Changquan and Nanquan ONLY) - To promote and improve international wushu competitor standards, difficulty movements (nandu) will be allowed for advanced changquan and nanquan divisions for men and women. A maximum of 0.6 extra points can be earned through performing nanquan or changquan specified movements from the 2004 IWuF Competition Rules (click here for difficulty move specifications).A separate judge will decide whether or not a difficult move was correctly performed. All difficult moves and the section of the form that they are in must be announced before the competition via the difficulty movement registration form submitted with the standard tournament registration form.

    NOTE: points and movements are from here: 2004 IWuF Rules

    Skill Level

  • Skill levels will include three divisions, based on the number of years of Wushu training and experience:

    1) Beginner (0 to 1 year)
    2) Intermediate (1 to 3 years)
    3) Advanced (>3 years)

  • Competitors must compete at a consistent skill level throughout the course of the entire tournament. (i.e. one cannot compete in intermediate changquan and beginner's broadsword) the skill level of a competitor is determined by total years since they began practicing Chinese Wushu (of any type), not by time spent learning a particular event. Breaks taken from training (semesters off, etc) are not subtracted from years of experience (i.e. if you started 3 years ago, you are intermediate even if you've taken a year off of wushu). Violation of this rule is grounds for disqualification, which can also disqualify that competitor's team from the team competition. (see Disqualification, below)

    Individual Competition

  • There are two classes of eligibility for individual competitors:

    Class 1: current, full time enrolled students
    Class 2: 1 year alumnus and non-enrolled students

  • Class 1 Eligibility:
    Must be a currently enrolled full-time student in a degree-earning program at an institution. Proof of current enrollment is required and must be brought in person to the event. The proof may consist of an approved study list, transcript, or research curriculum for the present semester or quarter at the student's university. The study list must include the student's name and a date or time period for which it applies, in order to prove present enrollment. A student ID is *not* sufficient proof. The study list or transcript should also indicate that the student is taking at least the minimum number of units or credits at his or her university to qualify as a full-time student. "Currently enrolled" is defined as having the status of full-time student at the university on the day of competition.

    Violation of this rule is grounds for disqualification (see Disqualification, below). In order to avoid disqualification, we encourage participants to mail or fax a copy of their status proof in advance.

    Advanced level competitors class 1 competitors, regardless of whether or not they are members of a Collegiate Team, are eligible to compete for the All-Around Champion title.

    [Please note that an individual competitor does not have to be a member of a collegiate team in order to represent his or her college or university].
  • Class 2 Eligibility:
    Class 2 competitors are one-year university alumnus or non-enrolled students at an insitution in North America. One year alumnus is defined as having been a full-time student at a university (see Class 1 qualifications for a definition) one year or less from the date of the competition. Non-enrolled student is a student who is pursuing a degree earning program, but may not be enrolled for classes for the current term (ex. a college student who is not enrolled for Fall 2002 term).

    Documentation is also required for Class 2 competitors, in the form of a photocopy of the competitor's diploma (for alumnus) or formal document from the university's registrars office, such as a transcript for a previous term (for non-enrolled students). Both the name and date should be visible on any such documentation, and the printed date of enrollment or graduation will be the date used for determining eligibility.

    Class 2 competitors are eligible to compete as individuals, but not as members of any collegiate teams. They can place in their divisions and receive medals, but are not eligible to compete for the All-Around titles.

    Combining Divisions

  • Events may ONLY be combined when an event contains only 1 competitor. Divisions will ONLY be combined by skill level; beginner and intermediate divisions can be combined into a single division, as can the intermediate and advanced divisions. Intermediate and Advanced will be combined before Beginner and Intermediate. Divisions will not be combined by gender or between events (ie different weapons or emptyhand styles) under ANY circumstances, nor will beginner and advanced.

    Placing and Division Results

  • Individual and Team competitors will be compete together in the same divisions. Scores for all competitors will be given as in any normal competition but there will be *no* ties awarded. Once the competition in that division is complete, there will be two separate sets of results listed on the scoring sheet:

    1) "Individual Places" - First through third of ALL competitors. Medals will be given out based on these results.
    2) "Team Places" - First through third of ONLY competitors competing in team competition. See "Point Scoring System" below.

    All-Around Champion Scoring

  • The All-Around champions will be determined by summing the best four places (see "Point Scoring System" below) from each of the following categories:

    1) Handset (Changquan, Nanquan, Traditional handset, etc)
    2) Short Weapon(Broadsword, Straightsword, etc)
    3) Long Weapon(Staff, Spear, etc)
    4) Other (Other Contemporary Handset, Other Internal Handset, Other Contemporary Weapon, Other Traditional Weapon, etc)

  • Male and Female competitors with highest score sum will be Men's and Women's All-Around Champion.

  • It is important to note that each category only counts once. For example, even if a competitor does more than one short weapon, only their best short weapon score counts towards the All-Around sum. Also any result from an 'other' division only counts for the fourth category. For example if a competitor does drunken straightsword in Other Weapons, it does not count as their short weapon score.

  • If no competitor competes in each of the four groupings, then the sum will be made from all competitors who competed in any three of the four groupings.

  • Tie Breaker - Should more than one athlete have the highest sum, the award will be given to the athlete who has the highest combined scores of their four qualifying events. First condition satisfied settles the award. If a tie remains even beyond those comparisons, the award is given the athlete who beat the other in a division where both athletes competed. If a tie still remains, the award is given to the athlete with the highest point sum from ALL the divisions the competitor competed in, if the tie still remains the judges' scores for all events each competitor participated in will be summed.

    Outstanding Internal Competitor Scoring

  • The Outstanding Internal Competitor will be determined by summing the best three places (see "Point Scoring System" below) from among the following events:

    1) Yang Taiji
    2) Chen Taiji
    3) 42 Combined Taiji
    4) Internal Other
    5) Taiji Sword

  • Competitors with highest score sum will be the Outstanding Internal Competitor. Competitors may be male or female. Only one award will be given.

    Team Competition

  • Team Definition:
    1) 6 competitors, determined before the beginning of the tournament.
    2) ALL team members must be eligible class 1 competitors (see Individual Competition Section for definition) at the SAME University or College.
    3) No more than 3 teams may be sent from the same university, priority will be given to returning teams.
    4) No more than 5 members of a team may be of the same gender (ie. each team must have atleast one male or one female).
    5) Team MUST compete in group set division.
    6) Team name must be appropriate and school related, at host and judges' discretion.

  • Scoring:
    1) Best two "Team Places" (not including group set) for each competitor will be summed.
    2) Sum of all six competitor's places will be summed (12 places total).
    3) Group Set place will be DOUBLED and added to team sum.
    4) Team with highest team sum will be the winning team.
    5) Tie-Breaker - In the event of a tie in the Team score, the team with the most first "Team Places" (of all events competed by the team members) will win. If the tie still remains, the team with the most second "Team Places" will win.

    Point Scoring System

  • The following system will be used for scoring for Team Competition, All-Around Champion and Outstanding Internal Competitor awards. Each placing is designated a point value as follows:

    First Place - 3 points
    Second Place - 2 points
    Third Place - 1 points
    4th and Below - 0 points

    Rules for Group Set Competition

  • The Group Set division will be run as follows:

    1) Only open to valid, full teams.
    2) All participants must be from the same team.
    3) Minimum of 5 team members must perform set.
    4) Minimum time limit: 1 minute.
    5) Maximum time limit: 4 minutes.
    6) Can not be the same set that any team members competed with in individual competition.

  • Due to the fact that the score for group set counts double in the team competition, points for this division are awarded as follows:

    First Place - 6 points
    Second Place - 4 points
    Third Place - 2 points
    4th and Below - 1 point

    Disqualification

  • To encourage a fair tournament, a strict disqualification policy is in effect:

    1) Failure to bring valid documents to prove eligibility will result in that competitor's disqualification from the tournament.
    2) Dishonesty reporting of years of training (skill level) will result in disqualification.
    3) A disqualified team member causes his or her entire team to be disqualified from the team competition (non-disqualified team members are still eligible to compete in individual competition).
    4) A competitor can also be disqualified for cheating, unsportsmanlike behavior, or a failure to accord proper respect and courtesy towards the judges, tournament staff, fellow competitors, or instructors present at the competition.
    5) Disqualifications will be made official by the tournament's judge general.

    Sparring set event

  • Two or three individuals of any gender at any level from any institution may compete in a sparring set. The same individual may not compete in multiple sparring sets. The set must be between 40 seconds and two minutes. Sparring sets must be choreographed. (no free sparring). Sparring sets do not count for points towards the team competition or All-Around competition.

    Time Limits

  • Standard IWuF one minute and twenty second minimum time requirement will be enforced for the ADVANCED level divisions for the following styles: Changquan, Nanquan, Broadsword, Straightsword, Southern Saber, Staff, Spear, and Southern Staff.
  • One minute minimum time requirement will be enforced for the ADVANCED level divisions for the following styles: Wushu Other Empty Hand, Traditional Open Empty Hand, Wushu Other Weapon, Internal Other Empty Hand, and Traditional Open Weapons.
  • Four minute minimum and five minute maximum time requirement will be enforced for ALL level divisions for the following styles: Yang Taiji, Chen Taiji, and Taiji Sword.
  • Standard IWuF five minute minimum and six minute maximum time requirement will be enforced for ALL level divisions for the following styles: 42 Form Taiji.
  • One minute minimum and four minute maximum time requirement will be enforced for the Group Set division.
  • Any deviation from the minimum or maximum time requirements will be penalized with a point deduction according to standard IWuF rules.
  • Any division or style not listed above will have NO time requirement. Weapons
  • 2003 IWuF regulations for weapon length and size will be enforced.

    Uniforms

  • Either an IWuF-compliant silk uniform or school/club t-shirt with long pants must be worn by all competitors.