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Rules for the 8 bell
Rules for CI District Annual 8 bell inter-island Competition – Spring Meeting
1. The venue will rotate around the islands in the same manner as the 6 bell competition
2. The committee will set the method & touch for each competition by the end of October for the following spring competition
3. Members of each team must be fully paid up members of the Guild and be a regular and active ringer in the island they represent.
4. The 2 visiting bands to have 15 mins practice on the morning of the competition
5. The order of ringing will be decided by ballot.
6. Each team to have 2 minutes practice.
7. The treble shall be rung to indicate that the team is about to commence the test piece.
8. The rounds before and after the test piece will be unmarked
Note: It is hoped that wherever possible a District team will ring 4th as a practice for the Guild 8 bell competition.
Proposed New Rules
Rules for CI District Annual 8 bell inter-island Competition – Spring Meeting
1. The venue will rotate around the islands in the same manner as the 6 bell competition
2.The competition ringing will comprise either:
• 224 changes in any Triples or Major method(s) of the team’s own choice. All of the changes (but not the rounds before or after) will be judged.
• Call changes. The team may choose the changes to be rung but all the bells except the tenor are to take a turn at leading. The opening rounds and the stand will not be judged. Teams must ring for at least five minutes after the first change is called.
3. Members of each team must be fully paid up members of the Guild and be a regular and active ringer in the island they represent.
4. The order of ringing will be decided by ballot.
5. Each team to have 6 minutes practice.
6. The treble shall be rung to indicate that the team is about to commence the test piece.
7. The rounds before and after the test piece will be unmarked
Note: At the discretion of the Ringing Master a Scratch Team may be entered into this competition
Are we going to be voting on the above or the proposals under “Meetings, minutes, agendas” heading which are slightly different?
We are voting to accept the proposed new rules. The three changes have been summarised in the agenda but if there is any uncertainty take the proposed new rules to be the correct version.
Thanks,
Duncan
Re rule 2, this has been changed from the original to 2 parts in the proposed changes. Hopefully we will be able to vote for each part separately? You have never given any rationale for allowing call changes.
John David’s feedback supported several responses that the rules should be aligned to the guild rules. I copied the clauses directly from the guild website for a recent guild competition. Other feedback pointed out that they would not like to exclude people from taking part, especially as the point is all about striking and although an element on the 8 bell is to promote advancement in triples and major methods it would be considered wrong by many to exclude an island just because they cannot put a band together that can ring a method. With so much feedback supporting the inclusion of called changes or saying they wouldn’t mind its inclusion we felt that we should have the same rules as the guild with regards to what bands can ring.
The two clauses are separated as a function of the copy and paste from the guild rules which had them as bullet points. I do not intend to separate every single aspect of the proposals into a million votes or we will be at it all day!