What is IROA?

Dino Evangelinos
President, IROA

Range Officers form the support and infrastructure of practical shooting, and for this reason, we have the International Range Officers Association (IROA) and the various National Range Officer Institutes (NROI). They were designed to establish a structure for the creation, accreditation, recognition, and maintenance of match officials. Following the goals of the Range Officer Creed, these organizations will ensure that IPSC Range Officers are the best trained, the best qualified, and the best prepared, to a same world-wide standard.

There exists a direct relationship between the quality of the officiating, and the quality of the competition. And because of this, officials around the world can be proud of becoming Range Officers. They can enjoy the camaraderie of their fellow officials, and be proud to be a part of the fraternity of IPSC Officials.

The Purpose and Goals of IROA

Establish international training standards for IPSC Range Officials.
Advise on aspects relating to the safe conduct of competition.
Advise on rules of competition and principles of good course design.
Provide assistance to Regions in establishing their National Range Officer Organizations.
Publish a periodic newsletter.
Maintain an organized world-wide team of internationally accredited officials.
Serve and support Level III, IV and Level V Matches.
Advise and set recommended minimum standards, and an annual maintenance program for IPSC Officials.

IROA Membership Criteria

International Stats Officer (SO)

Stats Officer - collects, sorts, verifies, tabulates and retains all score sheets and ultimately produces provisional and final results.

Membership Requirements:

Must be a current member of his Region.
Must be a current working member of his Region's NROI.
Must have accumulated a minimum of 15 match points as a Stats Officer at IPSC Level II or higher matches, including at least 1 Level III.
Must be sufficiently fluent in English to be able to run a stats office at an internationally sanctioned match i.e. communicate with other Officials and competitors about scores and procedures.
Must submit an IROA membership application using the prescribed form. The application form must be countersigned by both his Regional Director and NROI Chairman, and then forwarded to IROA.

International Range Officer (RO)

Range Officer - issues range commands, oversees competitor compliance with the written stage briefing and closely monitors safe competitor action. He also declares the time, scores and penalties achieved by each competitor and verifies that these are correctly recorded on the competitor's score sheet.

Provisional Membership Requirements:

Must be a current member of his Region.
Must be a current working member of his Region's NROI and hold a rank of RO or above.
Must have accumulated a minimum of 15 match points as a RO/CRO/RM at IPSC Level III or higher matches.
Must be sufficiently fluent in English to be able to run a stage in an internationally sanctioned match i.e. read the stage briefing, give range commands and answer questions.
Must have successfully passed the current IROA Level I Range Officer Seminar, which may be conducted by either an IROA Instructor or a certified NROI Instructor of the Region in which the Seminar is held.
Must submit an IROA membership application using the prescribed form. The application form must be countersigned by both his Regional Director and NROI President, and then forwarded to IROA.

Certification of IROA Officials

Experienced range officers may apply for IROA certification. Please follow these step-by-step instructions:

Complete the online IROA Application form.
Print out a hard copy of the application form completed in step 1.
Send the hard copy application form to your NROI President and Regional Director for their signatures.
Email, fax, or snail-mail the signed application form with a copy of your Level I IROA Seminar certificate to IROA.
All applications are reviewed by IROA quarterly (January/April/July/October).
Once IROA has approved the application, an email will be sent informing the applicant of the login procedure to the IROA System.
Login to the IROA System using the user ID and password. View and update your personal information online and create your own password. Make sure to fill in the Security Question and Answer. We strongly recommend you use a one word answer in lower case characters.
At this point, you must submit online a recent portrait (head and shoulders) photograph. The photograph must be uploaded in JPEG format, exactly 120 pixels wide by 160 pixels high and no greater than 30k in size. Important: No application will be further considered without a current photograph.
You must then click on the "Generate my points card" link and print the Points Card for your use. You then work as a Provisional Range Officer for a minimum of 2 Level III sanctioned matches (in any discipline). These matches must be entered online and at each of these matches the Points Card must be signed by the supervising Official. You must register the points for these two matches online and the completed card must be sent to IROA.
Following receipt of the Points Card, the applicant's name will be circulated to all IROA members. The IROA Executive Committee will then consider the application for full membership.
Approvals are done quarterly (January/April/July/October).

Once certified, IROA officials must accumulate match points each year to maintain their certification.

Match Points

Officials earn match points by officiating at matches, and different levels of matches earn different points.

Level III - 3 points
Level IV - 4 points
Level V - 5 points

IPSC Match Ratings

Match Ratings were designed to define the scope and nature of the match. A Level III Match is a Regional Championship. A Level IV Match is a Continental Championship. A Level V Match is the World Shoot.

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Last updated Friday, 28-Mar-2008 03:32:56 EST