Jackpot Explanation

Class Jackpot: New for 2008 at each of the CMSA Championship Series Events will be a Class Jackpot. This optional jackpot will be IN ADDITION to each contestant’s regular entry. The entry fee will be $100.00 and feature a payback of 90%.
All entry fee money will STAY IN YOUR CLASS, paying back one place for each five jackpot entries.

Wrangler Pro: Entry Fees for 2008 will be $200 per horse ($250 at World & Nationals), two horse limit. Payback percentage has been increased from 70% to 80%. At World and Nationals the Top Ten men and ladies will return for the finals of the Wrangler Pro Shoot-Out. All other Wrangler Pro Events will be a single run jackpot. Money will be tracked from all winnings.
Contestants MUST ride the horse they qualified on and in order of qualification, one minute will be allowed to switch horses and reload. Tack, guns etc. should be ready to go. Any contestant found to have ridden the incorrect horse will be expelled from the match.

At the upcoming CMSA Championship Series events there will be a new and improved WRANGLER PRO SHOOTOUT & Wrangler Pro Classic event format that is a new and more exciting format that will payback a higher percentage to each contestant, make the World & Nationals truly special and give more contestants the opportunity to WIN! CMSA Sundowner World and Jeffers National Championships will each host Wrangler Pro SHOOTOUT events. These events are historically the "Granddaddies of them all" and will feature a slightly higher entry fee of $250, 80% of that entry fee, 1 on 5 payback, and offer finalists the opportunity to REALLY CASH IN! The 2008 Wrangler Pro SHOOTOUT at the Jeffers National Championship, in Tunica, MS, will feature $6,000 in guaranteed prize money in the Saturday Night Showcase of Champions. $3,000 paid to each gender ? paying the top three finalists in each gender $1,500, $900 and $600!

The World Championship Finals in Amarillo, Texas will feature $10,000 in guaranteed prize money! $5,000 PER GENDER! Paying the top three finalists in each gender a whopping $2,500, $1,500 or $1,000!

A couple of other changes for the SHOOTOUTS in 2008 are as follows. Top 10 of each gender will return to run for the CASH! Two horse entry limit per rider, showcase finalists must ride the horse they qualified on and IN THE ORDER THEY QUALIFIED! If you have back-to-back qualifications, be ready to Rock-N-Roll!

Wrangler Pro Classic events will be held at the Colt Classic in Lewisburg, Ohio, Behlen Lazy E Classic in Guthrie, Oklahoma, the Ruger Western in Nampa, Idaho and the Sundowner Eastern in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. These events will feature a $200 entry fee, also with an increased preliminary payback of 80%, paying one place per each five entries, two horse entry limit per rider, gender split, no showcase. You'll be running for all the CASH in one run!

Since the CMSA cardholders have supported Wrangler and it's products so well, there will be $10,000 in Wrangler Bonus Bucks in 2008. If you win Overall Cowboy or Cowgirl at Eastern, Western, Nationals or World wearing Wrangler Jeans you?ll receive $1,000 in Wrangler Bonus Bucks!

Wrangler Bonus Bucks totaling $500 will also be presented to the lucky winner of the Shooter's Meeting drawing at Eastern, Western, Nationals or World as well.

Plus, not to leave the future of the CMSA out, ALL Wrangler contestants at each of the CMSA Championship Series will receive Wrangler gift certificates.

Colt Eliminator:

NEW and IMPROVED COLT Eliminator Format

After running two events under the new format the CMSA has listened to the input of many riders from various levels of competition and have made a few changes to the enhance the quality of competition and fairness to all levels. There are two changes addressed, first is the 2nd round qualifying will be split in four groups of 20 instead of 6 groups of 10 and the second change is "Go Round" money will only be paid to the top qualifiers in each group instead of 1st and 2nd. We look forward to hearing from each of you as we endeavor to constantly improve your mounted shooting experience.

Colt Eliminator: Colt Firearms and AJ Horses, in cooperation with the CMSA, have updated the new format of the Colt Eliminator. This format will feature go round money, new open & limited qualification to allow a broader range of contestant to advance to the second go round and added money at the World and National Championships.

Pays Go Round Bonus Money!
$10,000 Added Money!

Entry Fees for the Colt Eliminators will remain at 2007 levels for all of 2008! In addition, at the 2008 Sundowner World Championship Colt will again offer BONUS CASH of $500 to the Men's and Ladies World Champions IF you're shooting Colts!

Colt/AJ Horses announced $10,000 added money to be paid out in the Colt Eliminator at the CMSA National & World Championships. Qualification format to reach the finals has changed, to include more riders from all levels, and "Go Round" bonus money will be paid on the first two stages.

Every entrant will compete in the first stage. Qualification for the second "Go Round" will draw the Top 20 Men's Level 1 - 3, Ladies 1 - 3, Men's Level 4 - 6 and Ladies Level 4 - 6. This format will bring back a total of 80 contestants to the second round. The fastest runs recorded in in each group 1-3 & 4-6 of each gender will receive a bonus. The stage one bonus will be $100 for first in each group & gender ($400 total). If total entries do not exceed 125 go round bonus money will be $50.

The top ten from each division and gender (Top 20 Men's Level 1 - 3, Ladies 1 - 3, Men's Level 4 - 6 and Ladies Level 4 - 6 total of 80 riders) will move on to the second round. Those who qualify for the second stage will be running for additional "Go Round" bonus money based upon the times from stage 2. The fastest run recorded in each group will receive a bonus of $200 for first place. Again, if entries do not exceed 125 go round bonus money will be $100.

This new format will allow for tighter competition among the top riders and still allow a fair chance to return for the next "Go Round". In addition it will allow lower level riders more opportunity to advance in each round. Finals qualification will remain the top ten fastest in each gender. These contestants will move onto the Colt Eliminator Finals held as part of the Saturday Night Showcase of Champions at all seven CMSA events in 2008. Colt/AJ Horses will provide added money for the finals at National & World Championships of $4000 and $6000 respectively. Finals payback will be top five at all non-World or National events.

Payback example using 2007 World entry totals:

Top 20 Men's Level 1 - 3, Ladies 1 - 3, Men's Level 4 - 6 and Ladies Level 4 - 6 total of 80 riders)

Go Round Bonus Money

Stage 1*
1st place of each gender in each division of 1st go win $100 ($400)

2nd go includes 80 riders Top 20 Men's Level 1 - 3, Ladies 1 - 3, Men's Level 4 - 6 and Ladies Level 4 - 6.

Go Round Bonus Money

Stage 2*
1st place of each gender in each division of 1st go win $200 ($800)

*If total entries are less that 125, bonus money will be as follows:
1st Round $50
2nd Round $100

Top 10 overall make it back to Saturday Night Showcase. At all events OTHER THAN Nationals & World the finals will pay top five. Top ten will run in the finals at ALL events.

Payback example:
Nationals with $4000 added would pay back as follows (using 2007 numbers and same graduated scale entry fees)

$8265 Total Payback
$2700 Bonus Go Round Money
$5565 Top Ten payback
$4000 Added Money
$9565 Total Payback in Finals

Men would payback as follows
89 men in this example
1st Place $994.66
2nd Place $845.46
3rd Place $746.00
4th Place $646.53
5th Place $497.33
6th Place $397.87
7th Place $298.40
8th Place $248.67
9th Place $198.93
10th Place $99.47

Ladies would payback as follows
81 women in this example
1st Place $918.22
2nd Place $780.48
3rd Place $688.66
4th Place $596.84
5th Place $459.11
6th Place $367.29
7th Place $275.46
8th Place $229.55
9th Place $183.64
10th Place $91.82

3D. What is it? Where did it begin? Who invented the concept? Who owns the idea?

Nobody that I have ever asked these questions seems to know. I have been running in speed events longer than I care to admit and 3D has always been there ' so who knows and who cares where it came from. All I'm really sure of is that it works, it's fun, and it's a proven payback method that will spread the wealth among many skill levels. Plus, it doesn't cost the club hosting the match one red cent to include it in the match (ok maybe 5 cents for pencils, paper and some volunteer to administer them).

To put it real simple multiple speed division jackpots are as follows: The fastest time of all who are entered in the jackpot (stage or match) becomes 1D (1^st Division). You then add a predetermined number of seconds to the fastest time of those entered. The sum of these two becomes the time for 2D (2^nd Division). The process is repeated for 3D (3^rd Division) and could go beyond three. Although among barrel racers 2, 3 & 4 are the most popular number of divisions.

Once you've established your divisions you must know how to separate the times that will be VERY close. Here's how it works ' if the top time is 10 seconds even and you are running a 5 second division split 2D would be 15 seconds, 3D 20 seconds. If you have a 14.999 you are in the 1D, but a 15.001 puts you in the 2D. It's that simple.

Multiple speed division jackpots are figured in many ways. I'm sure those of you with a similar background have seen this too ' so let me make it clear in the beginning that this is by no means the 'final word' on the administration of a 3D Jackpot. This is just the way we do it here in Tennessee. It's the formula used at the Eastern United States Championship (EUSC) in Tunica, Mississippi ' and I have to tell you we had a lot of shooters' really enjoyed it and came away wanting to know how it worked.

But before I explain the mathematics of how it's figured I want to explain what 3D or any other Multiple Speed Division Jackpot is designed to accomplish. Equity ' Fairness ' Inclusion ' whatever you want to call it, the main point of a multiple speed division jackpot is so all skill and speed levels can participate in the optional jackpots without seeing all the money go to the 'top dogs' all the time. At the EUSC we used time separations from 4 ' 14 seconds in an attempt to find the number of seconds to base the divisions upon that included riders from all levels & classes. Knowing that enough would enter to give us more accurate data than your average WPQ. The data collected from the jackpot entry forms has indicated that 4 and 6 is the number of seconds that should be used. But ' remember one thing. You can use many different totals, or you can use the same one over and over. That is up to each club.

You must first figure the Total Payback - Then Division Paybacks - Then decide how many places per division are being paid back & figure them.

Entry Fee X Number of Entries X Percentage of Payback (in decimal form) = Total Payback.

There are 3 divisions (the exception to that will be explained after this) which payback in the following way.

Number of placed paid per division are as follows. Since we nearly always us $10.00 as the entry fee for our stage jackpots the following formula works very well for spreading the payback while keeping the amount enough to be worth entering.

I don't recommend ever going beyond 4 places because too often you won't have enough in the division to pay 4 places let alone more than 4.

Here's where it gets a little sticky. Many times when you run Multiple Speed Division Jackpots there may not be a time that fits a division at all or not enough who have entered to pay the number of places planned on. Here's how you handle those situations.

If you have no entered time that fits one of your divisions you eliminate that division (2D or 3D) and payback two divisions instead of three. Using the example above, if for example there was no time that fell in the 2^nd Division you simply refigure your Division Payback except you us a 60/40% split (instead of 50/30/20), because you no longer have three divisions. Multiplying ALL of Total Payback by .60 and .40.

Total Payback $250.00 X .60 = $150.00 this is now your 1D payback (split 60/40 paying 2 places per division- 1D 1^st = $90, 1D 2^nd = $60)

Total Payback $250.00 X .40 = $100.00 this is now your 3D payback (split 60/40 paying 2 places per division- 2D 1^st = $60, 2D 2^nd = $40)

When this situation happens ' I always explain it to the shooters at the awards ceremony.

The other thing that can happen is when you are set, as we are with this example to payback more that one place per division, but only one of the entrant's times falls in that division. Well it is that shooters lucky day! They get ALL of that division's payback.

Likewise, if you're paying back four places and only two fall into that division. You simply refigure that division on a 60/40 split instead of the 40/30/20/10 split.

See ' it really is simple to do these and your contestants really do enjoy them. These types of jackpots do not add any additional cost to your event, because you're using times generated by the main match, for which you've already paid for the blanks and balloons!

So go put on a shoot and try some 3D Jackpots. If you have any questions or didn't understand any of this, don't hesitate to pick up the phone and call me at 931-381-1903 (home) or 800-477-7606 (office).