Proposed by Shepperton Slalom Canoe Club, Seconded by CRCATS and Strathallan Canoe Club
The doubles vs single entries complicates things for online entries and to a lesser degree for organisers and newcomers.
It also causes complications for organisers when completing the returns and calculating levies as they have to work out which entries are single entries and which are doubles.
It also complicates multi-class discounts and complicates promotions at Division 2/3 or Division 3/4 ranking races when a paddler competes in different Divisions on Saturday and Sunday
In 2017 there were (approximately):
Note this is a table, tables do not work well here sorry
Division / Doubles / Singles / Notes
Prem / 2 / 5 / 1 with enhanced fee
1 / 8 / 1 / 1 with enhanced fee
2 / 23 / 3 / but of the singles, 2 charged enhanced fees
3 / 40 / 2
4 / 37 / 7
Based on these, there would be very little difference to Division 2, Division 3s and Division 4s if we just set the entrance fee to 1/2 the current double rate for all events, (so based on 2017: Division 4 - £4, Division 3 - £6.50, Division 2 - £8.50), and similarly adjusted levies. Division 1 and Prem are not quite so clear cut, but not so far off
Adjusting fees and levies to have a rate-per-entry and ignore the double rate is unlikely to have any significant impact to what competitors pay over the year, or to the income for different competitions. As is currently the case, competitions can apply for enhanced fees.
There are no rules that specify entry fees, so there are no rule changes, there will be simplification of competition returns, and of list of entry fees. In order to preserve the level of entry the rule linking entry fees to inflation will be updated to count inflation from the current year, rounding to 10p rather than 25p as handling 5ps are difficult at events.
Double entry fees will be removed, minimum entry fees will be standard for all races, with double races attracting twice the entry fee of a single. To be financially neutral, single entry fees will be reduced as follows:
Division Standard / Late Entry
Premier / Division 1 £17.80 / £22.80
Division 1 £15.80 / £20.80
Division 2 £8.50 / £12.50
Division 3 £6.50 / £7.80
Division 4 £4.00 / N/A
Change Rule C11.6.3 (page 70) as follows
UK C11.6.3 Minimum Entry Fees will be increased annually by the lower of the increase in Retail Price Index (RPI) or the Consumer Price Index (CPI) according to the formula:
New fee = A+ {A x [(B-C) /C]}, rounded to nearest 10p. Where
A = the entry fee for 2018
B = the index for September immediately prior to the relevant ACM
C = the index for September 2017