Hosting an Event BCWA Competition Hosting

• Provide access to required equipment
  • competition set
  • training weights, bars
  • platforms
  • electronics, printers, mic and speaker if required
  • scale
• Take care of registrations, communicate session times, competition location to registrants
• Prepare athlete cards, competition score sheet
• Handle payment
• Assist, if required, in setting up the session times and groupings
• Provide contact information, if required, to various groups within the BCWA (notably, officials contact list, club contact list).
• All communication with CWFHC regarding rankings, results, doping control

BCWA has some resources at your disposal, some alluded to above. They are:

• Contact lists. We can provide you contact lists for officials, registered clubs etc for you to make arrangements
• Job list documents for each session so you can fill in the blank and know you are not missing essential volunteers

• Securing a venue
• Transporting all required equipment including but not limited to
  • Competition and training weights and bars
  • Competition and training platforms as needed
  • Competition management system (TVs, Monitors), unless using other system
• Setting up and tearing down the competition. (Field of play, warm up area, any separation or flag and drape)
• Provide a change rooms, anti-doping room (in a competition subject to doping control), weigh in room
• Provide refreshments and snacks to Technical Officials and other volunteers
• Securing awards: 1st, 2nd, 3rd place medals for each category, Best Overall lifter, Best team: 4+4 Best Team using the IWF point system, maximum 2 per weight class
• Securing required personnel: TOs (including referees, speaker marshal, weigh in), loaders, set up and tear down crew.
• Set up and tear down INCLUDES the electronic equipment, however a BCWA member knowledgeable in the electronics can assist by providing information on how to set certain things up
• Arranging any “extra” such as merchandise booths etc if desired