World Festival

Profile of the IRF World Festival Series

Here follows a short outline of what the IRF World Festival Series is. Countries bidding to hold one of these events should bear these points in mind when completing their bid document:

Name = World Festival Series (or World Rafting Series in non rafting circles). Each event is then called the XXXX Rafting Festival, eg Katun Rafting Festival, Gore Rafting Festival, Nile Rafting Festival, etc.
Initially there will be 4 events a year. One race at least in each region: Americas, Australasia, Europe/Russia/Baltics, Africa.
Each event must be open to anyone from any country and there is no qualification procedure other than the paddlers must be able to paddle the grade of river that the event is to be held on.
The event should ideally follow IRF rules and Regulations.
It is an event that people who enjoy travelling and competing in rafting can focus on and know it is going to be a good race in a fun location.
For the local teams it is great exposure to other teams and rafters
At this early stage it is not about the media and hyping the events but about getting as many teams from as far and wide as possible.
This Series will allow 4 races a year to be highlighted in the international rafting community by the IRF. Later on this number may be increased to 6.
One event per region, awarding it to the event that satisfies the IRF’s profile for the World Festival Series the best.
A point system will be introduced from the start – the team with the highest points over all events wins!
This will encourage teams to try to get to as many of the World Festival Series events as possible.

Point system for the Series.

At each event teams will get points according to where they place overall. The points awarded will be:- 100 for 1^st , 90 for 2^nd, 80 for 3d, 68 for 4^th and then all teams down to 32 get minus 2 points. Under this system 32^nd receives 12 points and all subsequent teams can receive 10 points.
At the end of the Series each team’s points are totalled up to get the Series winner.

World Festival Series events 2010

Bids are open for 2010

Past events and Rankings

2006 – Katun – Russia – Results

2008 – Nagara-gawa – Japan – Results

2009 – Nisava – Serbia – Results

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