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Competitions & Results
The Association provides
a wide-ranging selection of competitions for its affiliates. All
take place in the winter indoor season (October to March).
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This League was originally for teams of six, one card each. Starting with the 1999-2000 season it was changed to be teams of four, two cards each. This was due to the falling numbers of participants in the sport and the difficulties some clubs had in raising six-person teams. This retrenchment has continued as clubs fall by the wayside, and is reflected in that we only run two divisions with seven teams altogether nowadays, and that's with one club fielding a B team. The Matchplay league which is run concurrently was introduced at the same time to add more interest. Division 1
(for the Younger Shield &
the Div 1
Matchplay Trophy)
In 1976 another Shoulder-to-Shoulder league
was introduced, shooting in the indoor range at the newly built Meadowbank
Stadium in Edinburgh. It was for teams of three, and was shot at 50
yards initially but changed to 50 metres in 1980. Due to the dearth
of equivalent facilities elsewhere, this competition was unique certainly
in Scotland and possibly in the UK and attracted teams from a wide area (eg
Stirling, Dumfries, Berwick). The competition was discontinued in
1991 because the range was closed due to safety issues and
it proved too costly to upgrade it. Here are the lists of winners of
the three divisions which were run during the relatively short existence
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