Clube Naval de Cascais April Big Wednesday

NOTICE OF RACE

1. ORGANIZING AUTHORITY
Clube Naval de Cascais announces the CNC Big Wednesday Night on Virtual Regatta.

2. PLACE AND DATES
The Championship will take place on Virtual Regatta – Inshore App, every April Wednesday.

3. RULES
3.1. The regatta will be governed by the rules as defined in Virtual Racing Rules of Sailing found on this link.
3.2. By registering on this championship the players will accept Virtual Regatta Terms and Conditions. (find here).
3.3. By Registering on this championship the players will accept the rules, and the Terms of Engagement established on this Notice of Race.
3.4. If a player behaves in a way that contradicts the rules and terms of engagement, set out on this Notice of Race, or those set out in Virtual Regatta’s Terms and Conditions, the Organising Authority and Virtual Regatta have the right to disqualify the Player from this championship.
3.5. Individual players are not allowed more than one profile within the game and are not allowed to be registered in this event more than once. Players found to have more than one profile will be disqualified
3.6. If there is a conflict between languages the English text will take precedence.

4. ELIGIBITY AND ENTRY
4.1. This event is open to Clube Naval de Cascais Members only.
4.2. Eligible players shall register by sending an email to regatas@cncascais.com with Real Name, Virtual Regatta User Name, Club and if has Virtual Regatta VIP subscription; or by filling the online form here until 10h00 (Portugal Continental UTC) of previous Tuesday of the event. On line forms are available on the following links (April 8th) (April 15th) (April 22nd) (April 29th)
4.3. By registering to play this Championship, players automatically grant to Organising Authority and Virtual Regatta the right to make a connection between a player’s virtual profile and their World Sailing Sailor ID, at the discretion of Organising Authority and Virtual Regatta, where applicable for professional sailors.
4.4. For Portuguese National eSailing Ciurcuit selections the Organising Authority will only consider players that are members of Clube Naval de Cascais and with a vailid Portuguese Sailing Federation license.

5. MEDIA RIGHTS
5.1. By participating in this event, players automatically grant to Organising Authority, Virtual Regatta and their sponsors, the right in perpetuity to make, use and show, from time to time at their discretion, any motion pictures and live, taped or filmed television and other reproductions of the player during the period of the Championship without compensation.

6. CODE OF CONDUCT
6.1. Players must conduct themselves in a reasonable manner, maintaining a friendly and polite demeanor to spectators, members of the press, other players, Virtual Regatta employees and Organising Authority members
6.2. Players and support persons shall comply with any reasonable request form the Organising Authority and Virtual Regatta.
6.3. Organising Authority may reduce or remove a prize in the case of misconduct or refusal to comply with any reasonable request.

7. NOTICE TO COMPETITORS AND SAILING INSTRUCTIONS AMENDMENT
7.1. The official communication between the Organising Authority and players will be made by the following channels:
7.1.1. All official communication as Sailing Instructions Amendments, Paring Lists, Race Passwords, time schedule will be posted on Discord App inside this event server, on the channel named #quadro-oficial-avisos. For that reason is mandatory to install Discord App. Download links may be found here : Windows, IOS, Android e Linux
7.1.2. After installing the Discord App, to find event server on the following link.

8. SCHEDULE

All hours are UTC Portugal Continental Time Zone

9. EVENT FORMAT
9.1. If there is less than 21 players the regatta will consist in a single fleet.
9.2. If there is 21 players or more the championship will be raced in gourps with the fleet be divided in groups, with equal or similar number of players.
9.3 Overall ranking for the full Series will be made with the final result of each series. There will be a 1 Series discard; all results are referent to the player. A boat that does not participate in a Series will be scored with the total number of boats registered in all Series plus one point.

10. PRIZES
Will be awarded prizes for the top 3 boats of the month Overall:

1st Place: Clube Naval de Cascais Shirt.

2nd Place: Clube Naval de Cascais Cap

3rd Place: Clube Naval de Cascais Wine – Cais Sul if the winner is older than 18 years old.

11. Results
11.1 Individual race results will be posted on www.sailranks.com
11.1 The Overall will be posted on www.cncascais.com.