Point a Rally Scoring recommendations for 2009/10
Posted: 25.06.09
The last 12 months has seen a real shift in our sport with the World Squash Federation (WSF) voting to adopt Point A Rally (PAR) as the sports standard scoring system at its Annual General Meeting in October last year. All championship squash played under the WSF’s and the European Squash Federation’s jurisdiction is now played PAR11.
On a national level England Squash & Racketball (ESR) introduced PAR11 for all its junior squash at the beginning of the 2008/9 season and trialled it at the 2009 senior Inter County Premier Finals. PAR11 has now also been adopted as the standard scoring for Racketball and is already in use at all major tournaments.
From the 2009/10 season the following events will be PAR11:
National Squash Championships (senior and junior)
British Junior Open
Senior Inter County Championships
Junior Inter County Championships
All junior sanctioned events
National Racketball Championships
ESR sanctioned racketball championships
In addition we are looking at the suitability of PAR11 for Masters, and are currently engaged in consultation with Over 35 and Over 40 players to gauge opinion. A decision will be made prior to the start of the new season as to whether to move to PAR11 for these categories. For all other age groups in ESR events, HIHO scoring will remain for 2009 for the 2009/10 season.
We do see this as an evolutionary process. Pretty much the whole of Europe and many parts of the world have already moved completely to PAR11 for all squash. As previously recommended, England Squash & Racketball suggests that counties consider the adoption of PAR11 for county closed and county leagues for the 2009/10 season onwards. A number of counties have looked at this in a different ways. Some have adopted PAR11 for premier divisions, others across the board. Some have decided that, for now, they do not want to change.
Furthermore, we do believe that scoring systems at recreational and club level should be entirely discretionary, and are not proposing mandatory change in this area.
If you would like any further information on PAR11 please contact the Competitions and Events Team.