KYTC Championship and OSET Cup Rules
KYTC Specific Rules 2025:
• To qualify for awards and Championship points the rider must be a member of KYTC.
• The KYTC Committee are always on hand to advise the appropriate difficulty level for your child - to make the sport challenging and fun for the rider. The KYTC Committee reserve the right to place your child "Out Of Class" (OOC) if we feel they are riding a route that is drastically below their skill level. This is to ensure that riders with a skill level appropriate to the route have a fair chance at gaining championship points.
• Sections must be ridden in order unless instructed by an official to do otherwise.
• Each rider must provide an observer for at least two rounds in order to qualify for championship points. To qualify as a Finisher for the KYTC/Ladies Championships each rider must have provided two observers and started at least 5 events. Finishers awards will be allocated for the class you finish the season on, even if you did your mandatory 5 starts in a lower class/mix of classes. The OSET Cup has no minimum mandatory starting/observing requirements.
• By joining KYTC through Sport80, you agree to supply a minimum of 2 observers throughout the course of the season in order to facilitate with the smooth running of competitive events, no matter how many events you ride at throughout the year. Failure to do so will result in your membership for the following year being rejected. ***The KYTC Committee will discuss, on a case-by-case basis, the quantity of observing expectations for members who join the club after 31st of August.***
• Pink riders will be allowed to move backwards.
• Once you have finished the trial you must stop riding and park your bike until an all clear is given to indicate that everyone has finished. If you then choose to allow your child to continue riding (if permitted - at some venues free riding after the event is NOT permitted), they must be supervised and do so at their own risk.
We will be adopting our own "Yellow Card" system, in order to stand in solidarity with the ACU and their "MY Moment" campaign poster, as well as the tolerable behaviour rules being introduced in the ACU National Youth Series. Every observer and signed on official will have the capacity to issue a “theoretical” yellow card, and if that card has to be used then a first and final warning will be issued to the individual involved. Any further repeat of said behaviour will result in that person being banned from any KYTC event.
The KYTC Championship and OSET Cup will be run under ACU regulations TSR.22 - Stop Permitted , a highlight of these controls can be found below.
TSR22 - Stop Permitted Rules
0 - Clean
1 - Footing once
2 - Footing twice
3 - Footing more than twice
5 - Failure
5 - When requested by a rider rather than attempt the section
5 - Entering a section before being called upon to do so by an official
10 - Not attempting a section when called upon to do so by an Official
10 - For missing a section or failing to have punch card marked.
DEFINITIONS
Clean : A rider traversing a Section as defined above without penalty as described under FOOTING or
FAILURE shall be unpenalised and given a “CLEAN”.
Footing : Footing will be considered to have occurred if any part of the rider’s body or any part of the machine, (with the exception of the tyres or the sump shield) touches the ground or the rider benefit from any part of their body, or any part of the machine, (with the exception of the tyres or the sump shield) leaning on an obstacle (tree, wall etc.)
Footing outside the lateral limits of a Section does not constitute a failure but should simply be classed as footing.
Failure : A failure is considered to have occurred if:
a) The machine moves backwards.
b) The rider does not have both hands on the handlebar WHEN HE FOOTS WHILST STATIONARY.
c) The engine stops WHILST ANY PART OF THE MACHINE, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE TYRES, TOUCHES THE GROUND OR THE RIDER IS FOOTING.
d) The rider dismounts from the machine. Dismount will be deemed to have occurred when both of the rider’s feet are on the ground at the same side of, or behind the machine.
e) A rider is requested to leave the section by the observer for “unnecessary delay”.
f) A machine does not stay within the intended limits of the section and within each marker.
g) If any wheel of the machine crosses any boundary tape or goes over or on the wrong side of a marker, whether the wheel be on the ground or airborne before the front wheel spindle passes the “Section ends” sign.
h) The rider is held responsible for displacing a marker or support in an observed section whereby the observer considers it necessary to reinstate the flag/marker prior to the passage of the next rider. The displacing of any marking not relating to the competitor’s route will be considered to constitute a failure.
i) Travelling in a forward direction against the direction of the Section.
j) The machine or rider receives outside assistance.
k) A rider or person having an interest in a rider’s performance, who in any way alters the severity of a section without the authority of an official.
