World Ranking Disciplines
The standard slalom disciplines.
- Super Tight
- Tight
- Slalom
- Giant
- Super Giant
Courses can be set straight or irregular (special).
Example of other slalom disciplines.
- Banked Slalom
- 25, 50 and 100 cone
- Park slalom
Note!
For other disciplines than the mentioned. Make sure that disicplines are accepted.
Contact ISSA if not sure.
The same if you want to try out a new odd competition format. Both ISSA and racers should be prepared before the race.
World Ranking Points
Points are depending on the event status and class you are competing in.
There are algorithmic point tables for each event status class.
See ranking point tables in the Tables & Listings section below.
There are actually two kind of results.
- Race results
- Ranking results
And both of them have overalls.
- Race results
Placements for each discipline/class as how they were run.
Overall (according to the overall point table in the slalom rules).
Overall counting all disciplines. Unless organizer have excluded disciplines from the overall.
- Rank results
Calculating rank points for all classes (as much as this is possible). Disciplines running only one OPEN class for all racers will have all classes calculated automatically.
Only 3 disciplines are calculated towards the ranking. And these you select when you register the events.
You can add up to 6 disciplines in total. 3 ranking disicplines and also 3 extra disciplines.
Ranking overall counts the two best discipline results from the three ranking disciplines.
World Ranking Competition Status
Primary events
- Major Announcement limit: 6 months
The most important international events of the year. There are very few each year. One of these is the World Championships.
- Main Announcement limit: 4 months
Other important international events.
- Prime Announcement limit: 2 months
Other international events or important national events.
There is a limit of these statuses for each world region.
They are spread out in the different world regions.
See number of statuses per region in "Tables and listings" Region event statuses.
Secondary events
- Basic Announcement limit: 1 month
Other competitions.
- Plain No announcement limit
Other competitions.
World Ranking Discipline Classes
Age classes
55+ Grand Master Men/Women
45+ Master Men/Women
-17 Junior Boys/Girls
-14 Teens Boys/Girls
-11 Kids Boys/Girls
All classes can be mixed when racing. And be freely divided for prize ceremony by organizer.
Note! For ranking points, classes are always divided, for both ages and gender.
Open classes All ages
- Open
- Women
- Men Pro Experienced racers
- Men Am Upcoming/hobby racers
Virtual class
- Pro-Open
See more info below for then "ranking point table sections".
Ranking classes
A racer may be valid for multiple rank classes.
Juniors will be included also in the class above them.
For example:
Kids -11 (age 0-11) will also get included in teen rankings.
Teens -14 (age 12-14) will also get included in junior rankings.
Juniors -17 (age 15-17) will also het included in Women or Am rankings
Masters 45+ can also be included in Women or Am rankings.
Even Pro Masters can also be included in Masters rankings.
Master classes have no Pro/Am division.
The ranking tries to calculate all classes automatically but it will depend on how class divisions has been made during the discipline racing.
When you run the discipline with one Open class then all possible rankings for a racer can be calculated according to class rules above.
The same if you run as one open Men + one open Women class.
But if you start to divide further it may alter what rank classes that results may be inlcuded in.
For example:
If you run a Junior class those points will not be included into a Men or Women classes that also have been used.
If you run classes for all Junior classes separately (-11) + (-14) + (-17) racers will only get ranking points in each of the classes they run.
And same if you run a Masters class those points will not be included into a Men or Women classes that also have been used.
And 45+ racers that choose to run the Men or Women classes will not get any Masters points if there is a special Master class also running.
When an event race A, B, C-classes it will be treated as one big Open class. Where results will be registered in the order of the classes.
For men where we have Pro and Am classes an Open class will divide the men into separate Pro and Am rank classes.
Rank selections
For racers who belong to to multiple classes they can de-select classes that they are not intrested in.
- Pro in Masters class...
There is possibility for Pro racers to skip having points for other classes than pro.
It is when you get age 45+ that this becomes useful.
Then if you want to continue racing pro class then you can de-select the Master class where you will not race.
You can also do the opposite thing and de-select Pro and only start to race as Master.
- Masters in Am and Women class...
Same as for Men pro above.
All who get age 45 can also select to continue racing only only Am or Women class and de-select the Masters class.
- Juniors only in its own class + one class above.
This is the basic filtering we have.
But also for Juniors -17 can select if only want to be included in only in one of their two rank classes.
- Now Men and Women are separated.
This have made things a lot more clear now.
For Juniors especially where girls could be in a lot of different rank classes.
Now it is the same logic for all juniors.
- Why did not my child get any points in the Junior (-17) and Women classes?
It can often be that there is only one Open class.
And the class logic described above is to eliminate situations where a kid was for example the only girl racing.
And then could be seen also as the number one Woman.
Or the kid was the only junior and then would be seen as the nuber one in the Jun -17 class.
So this is a way to protect the integrity of the age classes.
- Harder rank class divisions
One could imagine you are always only belong to one class.
And that you can only compete in that class and get ranking points in that class.
This might be the way to go when there are a very big scene and a lot of racer competing in all classes all the time.
But this is not the case now so we have a more open class philosophy right now, even though not completely open.
This is also a topic in many sports to not stress racers into the senior classes.
And this even if they very well could have the level to manage.
I.e. let the young racers have their time to develop in the junior classes first.
Now for slalom, the age limit where you start to be counted into the Senior rank classes (age 18-44) are age 15.
Rank class confusion
With the rank class rules there might be confusions when you are on the limit between classes.
And if you compare with other racers that have a similar age.
One race maybe just have passed a class limit and another have not.
And this affect the rankings and how they are calculated.
On top of this there might be further confusion if comparing the 25-cone World Series and normal slalom rankings.
The 25-cone world series overlaps two years. For example from June 2025 to May 2026.
And in this case you stay in the same class as when you started the series June 2025, even when the last part in 2026 is done.
And there is only one Junior class (1-17).
For example:
[ 25-cone World Series 2024/2025 ]
Series results
A racer is 1st place in the "Junior Girl" class. But not in women class.
- We only have one class for all juniors Age 1-17.
- With the series running from June 2024 to May 2025, the series passes over a part of two different years. The class you have at the beginning of the series (2024) is kept until the end of the series (May 2025).
[ Rankings 2025 ]
From 2025 the racer will be in both Junior (-17) and Women class.
Ranking points are always visible for each event.
In this case Session #4 and Session #5 for 25-cone series were both running during 2025.
So you can see the placement and ranking points for these events.
Ranking points for Session #4
Ranking points for Session #5
On racers personal homepage you can see all events and classes a racer has for 2025.
And once the first ranking is calculated for 2025 you will also be able to see all classes for the ranking results.
Conclusion
So in some very special situations during a short time it may be that a racer just on an age limit can be...
- Included in the Women class in the world rankings.
- Not included in the Women class in the 25-cone World Series result rankings.
Event Discipline Titles
If you want to handle National or World Region titles inside an international event there are some things to think about.
- National Championships.
- World Region Championships.
Ex: European Championships.
For these kind of events there are actually always two kind of winners.
1. Event winners.
2. National Title winners.
This only becomes an issue if a country want to use an international event to handle national results.
I.e. when you have racers included in the event from outside the event title nationality.
For example...
- If you have none national racers on a national championship.
- If you have none World Region racers on a World Region championship.
- If you for example have None European racers on a European Championships.
Be aware of Titles
Event titles is something you should be aware of when running such events.
You can handle that in many different ways when it comes to trophys and/or medals.
- Trophys for both event winners and title winners.
- Trophys for event winners and medals for Title winners.
- Only Trophys for event winners and just announcing/counting Title winners as well.
You can do that as you want. But there are always these two kind of winners.
Overall rankings are normally only done for the event winners.
But for sure it could be done for national purposes as well.
NOTE!
If National Titles are very important you might want to think this through.
It can become sensitive when deciding this running H2H finals where it might be unfair that some National racers will be stopped by None National racers".
And you might then want to have this figured out before the race and not after when it could become sensitive if the outcome will differ depending on what format you use.
In these cases the most fair could be using the Qualification times for the National Titles (when there are H2H Finals with none national racers).
And if you really want a H2H final for the National Title you could set this up as an extra H2H race if needed.
If you have forgot about this you can use the above as official national title handling to fall back on.
Points for first place according to discipline class and status
Overview of the logarithmic ranking points.
Ranking points for Pro class and event status
Ranking points for Open/Women class and event status
Ranking points for Am/Master/Pro-Open class and event status
Ranking points for Junior (-17) class and event status
Ranking points for Boy/Girl (-14) class and event status
Ranking points for Kids (-11) class and event status