Bumps : Wednesday 28th - Saturday 31st May (5th Week)
Rowing On : Saturday 24th May (4th Week)
Coxing briefing (mandatory) : Wednesday 21st May 2025; slides available here.
Race Secretary : Jack Davies (secretary@ourcs.co.uk)
Key links and phone numbers:
Summer Eights 2024 Final Finishing Order – this will be the basis for the Starting Order of Eights 2025
| Day | Starting Order | Finishing Order |
|---|---|---|
| Rowing On | Rowing On Draw | Results |
| Wednesday | Wed Start Order | See Thursday Starting |
| Thursday | TBC | See Friday Starting |
| Friday | TBC | See Saturday Starting |
| Saturday | TBC | TBC |
Anu Dudhia will most probably be posting additional Eights-related content here. Contains unofficial live results and other info.
Racedesk updates can be found here. As well as text commentary, this is an unofficial track of the results, appeals etc announced over the PA.
Entries must be completed on the Entries system. Entries will close on Monday 13th May (3rd Week) at 12:00 noon.
The scratch deadline will be 08:00 on Thursday 16th May (4th Week). Scratches after this time will be treated as withdrawals as per rule A3.7.
Substitutions maybe made on the Entries system until 08:00 Wednesday - Friday, 07:00 on Saturday. After this time substitutions must be made via Racedesk.
Entry Fees for Summer Eights 2024 are £75 per eight, £25 for any crew failing to qualify through Rowing On.
If you have any issues, please email the Race Secretary.
The Event Plan and it's appendices are attached below.
Instructions to Competitors - RO: Instructions to Competitors - Rowing On
Instructions to Competitors - Bumps: TBC
Coxing Briefing Slides: Coxing Briefing Slides
OURCs is running two briefings via Microsoft Teams ahead of the event which all marshals and umpires are required to attend. At the event itself, a summary of this briefing will be repeated but there is not enough time for complete training on the day. The times for the mandatory advance briefings are:
Slides for Eights 2024 Marshal and Umpire briefings
Marshal Rota:
Eights 2025 - Marshal Rota
OURCs is running two briefings via Microsoft Teams ahead of the event which all umpires and marshals are required to attend. At the event itself, a summary of this briefing will be repeated but there is not enough time for complete training on the day. The times for the mandatory advance briefings are:
Slides for Eights 2024 Marshal and Umpire briefings
Umpires are also strongly encouraged to read the bankrider briefing slides
Umpire Rota: Eights 2025 - Umpires
Static Umpires
On Saturday cycling is not allowed and the Umpires will be placed along the bank as static umpires.
Static Umpire Rota: Static Umpire Rota
All bank riders for Summer Eights must have been briefed in the last 18 months on their role, legal responsibilities, and what to do in an incident.
The easiest way to receive the briefing is via the in-person meeting on Sunday 19th – see details below. If this is not possible, there will be smaller briefings at Race Desk, with more details to come closer to the date. We encourage all prospective bankriders to attend the briefing on the 19th to avoid any delays in following crews.
Briefed bank riders should come to Race Desk to sign out a bib before following their crew and then return the bib to Race Desk when finished.
The briefing slides can be found here: Bankrider Slides
The timing for this in-person bank rider briefing was
All bank riders must have been to a bank rider briefing in the previous 18 months. If in doubt, please contact the Sabbatical Officer.
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