A novice’s guide to Rowit

Rowit.nz is an online regatta information, entry and results system for Rowing Regattas in NZ.

You can look up information on regattas, clubs, individual rowers etc

The home page looks like this; most of the words in blue are links that take you to more information.

Use the find a regatta feature to search for the Christmas Regatta at Karapiro.

The program [pdf] link will let you download the race program for the 3 days.

The Events: programme of events link will take you to the list of events. When entries close, this will
allow you to see what clubs and crews are entered along with which heat each crew is in.
Event codes

Take a look at the events listed for Sunday in the download program pdf.

You will see these abbreviated event codes being used in lots of places but how do you read them?

First letter Gender: For club events M = Men; W = Women; For age group events B = Boy; G = Girl.

2nd letter/s Category: N = Novice; I = Intermediate; C = Club; S = Senior; P = Premier; M = Masters

or age group: U15, U16, U17, U18, U22

numbers: represent how many rowers in the boat with an x representing sculling (each rower has 2
oars); a number without an x means sweep rowing (each rower has only 1 oar usually alternating
sides down the length of the boat).
These are the crew sizes and names:

1x = Single scull (1 rower); 2x = Double scull (2 rowers); 4x = Quad scull (4 rowers); 8x = Octuple
scull (8 rowers);

2 = Pair (2 sweep rowers); 4 = Four (4 sweep rowers); 8 = Eight (8 sweep rowers);

Plus (+) or minus (-) signs: represents if there is a coxswain (+) or no coxswain (-) also known as
coxed or coxless respectively.

Filters: When looking for results once the regatta is underway, you will be able to reduce what is
shown by applying a number of filters to your search. Refer to the panels that will be available on
the right hand side of the screen.

Race results:

Rowit obtains race times relatively quickly after each race. For events with more than 8 entries,
multiple heats will be held. For some regattas, some events may have up to 8 heats. These will be
followed by quarter finals, semi-finals and then an A Final, a B Final (and sometimes C, D, E Finals).
For some events, there may be a repecharge round to give crews a second chance to get into qtr or
semi finals. Therefore most rowers should race 2 or 3 times in any event unless they get eliminated
at a heat, repecharge or quarter final round.

Once entries for a regatta are finalised, each event on Rowit should show the Progression codes.
This lets you know what happens depending on where each crew finishes in that race.

For the event shown above the progression for each heat is shown as

1 ->A Final + 3F2; R2 3+F4 -> B Final

This shows that after the heat rounds there will only be 2 finals (an A final and B Final).

Each final is aiming to have 8 competitors. This event has 5 heats with the winner of each heat going
straight to the A final (1 -> A Final); the last 3 places in the A Final are given to the 3 fastest 2 nd place
getters (3F2). The remaining 2nd place getters (R2), all 3rd place getters (3) and the fastest 4th place
getter make it to the B Final. Any others in the heats are eliminated.

An example with 3 Heats

1,2->A Final + 2F3

All winners and all 2nd place getters go to the A final along with the 2 fastest 3rd place getters.
Everybody else would have been eliminated.
At Maadi 2019, an event starting with 4 heats -> 3 repecharges -> 2 Semi Final -> B Final, A Final.

Heat progression: 1->Semi; Last Eliminated; Rest->Reps

Repechage progression: 1-4->Semi-Final; Rest->Eliminated

Semi-final progression: 1-4->A Final; Rest->B Final

At Maadi 2019, an event started with 8 heats -> 4 Repecharges -> F Final, E Final, 4 Qtr Finals -> D
Final, C Final, 2 Semi Final -> B Final, A Final.

Heat progression: 1-3->Quarter; Last Eliminated; Rest->Reps

Repechage progression: 1,2->Quarter; 3,4->E Final; 5,6->F Final

Quarter-final progression: 1-4->Semi; 5,6->FC; Rest->FD

Semi-final progression: 1-4->A Final; Rest->B Final

For the Xmas regatta, racing on Friday is the heats for age group events. Saturday will be the
remaining heats along with some finals for age groups events from Friday. There will also be heats
for category (Novice, Intermediate, Club, Senior) events. Sunday will be finals for the remaining age
group events and all category events.

Our rowers will have a mix of age group and category races. The coaches try to determine possible
progression from heats to finals to make sure there will be enough time between each rowers’ races
for a rest, get food and have time to get to the next event. There is a general limit of only 3 events
per rower and each club might be limited to only 2 crews per event. After initial entries close, some
events may re-open to allow clubs to enter extra crews to fill spaces in heats that might not be full.

For 3 events, we hope all rowers progress to finals meaning they would have 6 races over the 3 days.
Some rowers may get more, others may have less.

At the end of January, we will attend the combined Cambridge Town Cup / North Island Club
Champs with racing over 4 days.

Racing on Friday is the heats for CTC age group events. Saturday will be the remaining heats, some
semi-finals and a few finals in age groups events from Friday. Sunday will be finals for the remaining
age group events.

Saturday will also be heats for category (Novice, Intermediate, Club, Senior) events for the NICC
regatta. Sunday will have remaining heats, some semi-finals and a few finals for category events
from Saturday. Monday will be finals for category events.

As there are 2 regattas intermingled, our rowers could end up with 8 or more races over the 4 days,
being a mix of heats, semi-finals and finals for both age group events and category events.