Dear Instructor,
Below is some important information for the National Championships | ITA Irish Cup 2024.
The competition is broken down as follows:
**National Championships
**2nd November 2024 – 15 & Under, 14-17, Senior Black belts
**ITA Irish Cup
**2nd November 2024 – 14+ Colour Belts, Veteran Black Belts
3rd November 2024 – Under 10 and 11-13 Colour Belts
**Location
**University of Limerick Arena
Timetable
The timetable is now available and can be viewed at the following link:
https://www.sportdata.org/taekwondo_itf/dtm_timetables/540.html
PDF Timetable:
**Draws
**Colour belt and some black belt pattern draws and point lists for special technique/power are available online, other black belt pattern draws will be made Friday evening. There are no changes/late entries to these draws and any competitor entered in the wrong category will be removed.
Sparring draws will be made following weight/height checks on Saturday and Sunday.
**Friday
Weigh in 6pm-7pm in UL Arena
Saturday**
Saturday weigh in times:
8:30am – 10:30am
*Any competitor who misses weight must immediately go to the top table.
Instructors can register and collect competition stickers at the top table 8:45am-9:30am.
First categories start at 10am, competitors need to be at rings ready to start the first match at this time.
**Sunday
**All competitors for Sunday categories must immediately go to the ring as per the below attachments when they arrive, here they will receive their competition sticker from the umpires on the ring and be height checked. If a competitor is measured above their height category, they will be brought to the top table by a ring assistant.
*All height checks will be done before the start of each time slot
Sunday has been divided into 2 different time slots.
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Under 10**
9am: Arrive and go to assigned rings per below attachments
9:30am: Height check closes
10am: First under 10 categories start
11-13
2:00pm: Arrive and go to assigned rings per below attachments
2:25pm: Height check closes
2:30pm: First 11-13 categories start
Umpires
All umpires must sign in upon arrival at the arena. Any umpires not assigned to a ring can sign the additional umpire sheet and will then be assigned to a ring. The umpire meeting will take place at 9:30am on both days.
Coaches
Coaching passes will be made available during the day to clubs that have met the umpire quota.
Saturday: 1–7 competitors = 1 umpire, 8–14 competitors = 2 umpires etc
Sunday: 1–10 competitors = 1 umpire, 11–20 competitors = 2 umpires etc
*On Sunday all coaches must be 14-17 Blue-Black belt, no senior coaches allowed on the competition floor on Sunday.
Looking forward to seeing everybody and to a great weekend.
On behalf of the ITA tournament committee.
Stephen Smullen
ITA Tournament Administrator
