The annual Vegas Shoot

The "Vegas Shoot" ended an intense week or archery in a not less intense manner with the Compound Men shoot-off. Jesse BROADWATER (USA) prevailed over 18 opponents. The No. 1 in the world Brady ELLISON (USA), Isabel VIEHMAIER (GER) and Erika ANSCHUTZ (USA) are the other winners. The "Vegas Shoot", the annual indoor tournament in Las Vegas that counted as Stage 3 and Final of the Indoor Archery World Cup ended this archery week with its own finals: especially the famous shoot-off in the Championships Freestyle Men, in other words Compound Men. This year, thanks as well to the World Archery Indoor Championships that took place at the beginning of the week (and the athletes staying for the Vegas Shoot) more than 1700 (!) archers came to Vegas for the weekend! Some of them, who competed in Nimes or Singapore earlier this winter, participated in the Indoor Archery World Cup Final on Saturday night—see our dedicated review about the Final. In Compound Men, none the less than 19 archers were perfect during the three qualifications rounds (total of 90 arrows—using the 4-cm ring as 10 point and 27/64 arrows, 10.7mm in diameter). Here they were on Sunday afternoon standing on the line of the shoot-off! The first two rounds of the shoot-off also used the 4-cm ring as 10, but later on only the 2-cm ring (the X10) counted as 10. The shoot-off is played by end of three arrows—the lower scores (meaning the ones that do not shoot a perfect score) get eliminated. There were only two Europeans on the line and they were among the first eliminated. Morgan LUNDIN (SWE), a runner-up of the event two seasons ago, missed out in the second round of the shoot-off. Sergio PAGNI (ITA) was eliminated in the third round together with the Americans Levi MORGAN, Nshan THOMPSON, Kendall WOODY, Garrett ABERENTHY, Keith TRAIL, Hanry BASS and one of the big favourites: Reo WILDE, who won the Indoor World Championships and the Indoor World Cup Final this week! They were down to 10 athletes on the line for the fourth round of the shoot-off and Jeff HOPKING, Grant SCHLEUSNER, Chris HACKER managed only 29 points. Down to seven: Jeremy TERHUNE, Ben CLELAND and the last non-American, outdoor world champion Christopher PERKINS (CAN), went out. Team world champion on Thursday, Braden GELLENTHIEN scored 29 in the next round and Russel PAYNE had only 28. Third place for GELLENTHIEN! The 2009 double indoor world champion Chance BEAUBOUEF and the 2011 team outdoor world champion Jesse BROADWATER (photo) then went mano a mano for the title! In their first head-to-head tie-break, they both scored 30! But in their second head-to-head, BEAUBOUEF dropped a point (29). BROADWATER came through under pressure: 30 points, victory and 30,000 USD plus bonuses from sponsors in prize money! In Recurve Men, Brady ELLISON (USA) did not miss the opportunity to add one more title to his growing collection. Crispin DUENAS (CAN) showed once again he has world-class talent taking 2nd place and Ryan TYACK (AUS), 3rd, is also an archer to count with in the future. In Recurve Women, the young Isabel VIEHMAIER (GER) won the Vegas Shoot after a good World Archery Indoor Championships. Aida ROMAN (MEX) and Miranda LEEK (USA), who won individual silver and team gold at the world championships, followed up with strong performances. In Compound Women, Erika ANCHUTZ (USA) almost had a perfect score over the three days (899 points). She edged Karina MARSHALL (AUS), Holly LARSON (USA) and Sarah LANCE (USA). Find all results of the Vegas Shoot here. World Archery Communication