The Concept 2™ Model D ergometer will be used
You may use the damper setting of your choice, but the setting may not be changed during the race. All races are 2000 meters.

ERG Scores  
Everyone must submit their most recent 2000 meter ergometer score. Be honest . . . or you'll be sorry! You do not need a qualifying time in order to race at the C.R.A.S.H.-B.s, but we do ask for your erg score so that we may seed you appropriately. If you want to earn a sponsored trip from Concept2, please click here for qualifying times for the C.R.A.S.H.-B.s.

No Pseudonyms or False Names
It is often critical that C.R.A.S.H.-B. staff contact or find an entrant before or during race day. Our efforts to do so are often complicated or completely frustrated if the entrant does not provide us with accurate information. For these reasons, you may not enter under a pseudonym or false name. Persons using a false name will be disqualified. Furthermore, you may not row for someone else, under their entry. Picture ID's will be required at registration.

No substitutions
You may not row for a sick or absent person. If you do so, you will be disqualified. 

Shirts/Uniforms
You must wear a shirt and/or unisuit during competition.

Finals - Only
We have a finals-only format in ALL events. You will row only once. Participants will be seeded, based upon erg scores submitted on the entry form, so that each rower will compete against other rowers of comparable abilities. The best time will win each event.

We seed competitors according to their ability as best we can. However, if you are a legitimate contender for a medal, do not assume that the people in your row of ergs are necessarily the fastest people in your event. So, here's a piece of advice: Row your hardest, best piece, no matter what. We will not entertain complaints that you would have rowed faster if you had your competition rowing next to you.

Open and Lightweight Events 
Events 1 and 2 are unrestricted (openweight and no age limitation) for men and women. Events 3 and 4 are restricted to lightweight men and women (165 pounds or less for men; 135 pounds or less for women), with no age limitations.

There is a Collegiate division in each of Events 1-4, which is restricted to entrants from U.S. colleges. Medals will be awarded to the top collegiate rowers in each of Events 1-4. The fastest collegiate rowers will be eligible to win the overall awards for Events 1-4, as well.

For spectator appeal, the very top-seeded rowers in each of Events 1-4 (which may include collegiate rowers) may race as a group, and the next best-seeded collegiate rowers may race as a group. This will not affect the awarding of prizes. Prizes will be awarded to the top overall finishers (which may or may not include a collegiate rower) in each of Events 1-4. In addition, separate prizes will be awarded to the top Collegiate finishers in each of Events 1-4.

Lightweight Divisions (165 lbs or less for men; 135 lbs or less for women)
In addition to the Lightweight Event, there are Lightweight Divisions within the Junior, Master, Senior, and Veteran events. If you enter the lightweight division of an event, you will be eligible to win a prize only as a lightweight. In other words, we will not be awarding multiple medals to one athlete (even if, for example, a lightweight's score puts him or her among the top three openweight rowers in his or her event). 

Veterans Events 
Prizes will be awarded to veterans within five-year age categories, based on raw (unhandicapped) scores. Prizes will be awarded in both the openweight and lightweight divisions for each five-year age category.  As a result, the overall prize for veterans age 50 or over also has been eliminated. 

Coxswain Events  
Participants must be primarily a coxswain (be honest!) and cannot exceed the maximum coxswain weight (130 pounds for men, 120 pounds for women). There are no age restrictions.

Age Restrictions 

• Junior Event participants must have been born on or after January 1, 1990 and not be on a collegiate program. No one under the age of 14 may row in the C.R.A.S.H.-B. Sprints.
• For all other Events, age is as of race day.

Weigh-in for Lightweight and Coxswain Events  
(Lwts - 165 lbs or less for men; 135 lbs or less for women;
Coxswains - 130 lbs for men, 120 lbs for women)
Lightweight and Coxswain Events must weigh-in on race day. Names will be checked against scheduled starting times in the weigh-in rooms. In order to compete in the lightweight category, a competitor MUST be stamped by a weigh-in official upon successfully weighing in. Any competitor missing a stamp verifying they have successfully weighed in will not be allowed to compete in that category. Any competitor who failed to weigh in will race in his/her originally seeded time slot, but the score will then count in the OPEN division of that particular event. 

One Hour Rule: Lightweights must weigh-in within a 1-hour time frame, and the weigh-in must be completed at least 1 hour before your event. Lightweights should start to weigh in 2 hours before their race. Example: your heat time is at 9:30.You must complete weigh-in between 7:30 and 8:30 AM. Your name, event number, or erg number will be checked against existing heat entries. Weigh-in will open at 7am and will close at 1:15, but it is the competitor's responsibility to know when Weigh In is open for him/her.

Entry Confirmation and Race Schedule  
Entry confirmation will be posted on our website mid February for all competitors submitting an entry form and full payment by the deadline.

Interpretation of Rules
The meaning and application of these rules will be determined solely by the C.R.A.S.H.-B. Race Committee. All decisions and deliberations of the Race Committee will be secret, arbitrary, and final. NO WHINING...

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