Garcia, Reyes top President’s Cup final day

Al-Mutawah, Javed show class to win titles

By Ronchie Dela Cruz

KUWAIT CITY, Dec 5: On the last day of the President’s Cup competition, FAST President Ronil Paul Garcia finally climbed to the top and dominated the Professional Division with up-coming shooter Armando Reyes for the Standard Division. Both shooters displayed perfect shooting performance.

At the start of the practical shooting competition Garcia briefed the competitors that safety was the priority of both the range and the organization and briefed them with the scenario. The scenario was built to test accuracy as there were total of 8 No Shoots to partially cover targets. Foot work also was a big factors since 2 of the targets were placed on the ground to be shot while kneeling.

An aggregate scoring method was used to calculate the final score for each competitor with a bullet in Alpha earning 5 points, while in Bravo and Charlie brought 3 points and Delta 1 point. The time taken to complete the shoot plays a major part in the standing as the total score is divided by the time taken over the course to get the result.

The shooter was penalized and 10 points deducted from the total score for procedural errors and hitting noshoot targets and disqualified if they violated any gun safety handling rules.

This was the 2nd stage of the competition and as the winter season sets in, the heat was on within the competitors as they came in with high intensity and eagerness to capture the title.

In the Standard Category Armando Reyes stood tall as he shoots with accuracy and almost perfect score. He finished the course under 45.17 seconds and collected 19 Alpha and 1 Charlie for a total of 2.1696 hit factors that gave him a slight lead but enough to be on the top for tonight’s competition.

Lambert Bernardo came in 2nd place and had to do it twice to beat his 1st attempt after getting sloppy that gave him 12 Alpha, 4 Charlie, 2 Delta with 2 Mikes and 2 No Shoot as he hit the barricade earning a penalty that dragged his score to 0.7979 hit factors after finishing the course in 42.61 seconds.

But in his 2nd attempt, he learned to control his tempo and finally hit the mark after collecting 16 Alpha, 3 Charlie and 1 Delta under 42.45 seconds and he holds the fastest time for the Standard Category that gave him a score of 2.1201 hit factors.

Majid Al Mulla really has

Cesar Isidro

improved in his shooting during the last two events. He finished the course in 44.20 seconds and collected 11 Alpha, 3 Bravo and 6 Charlie for 1.8552 hit factors and put him in 3rd place tonight.

In his 2nd attempt, he had 14 Alpha, 2 Charlie, 2 Delta and despite of getting 2 Mikes and 1 No Shoot, he still managed to score 1.1212 hit factors under 42.81 seconds.

Fourth-placed was Malik Javed Iqbal who had slow start after he finished the course in 46.03 seconds and collected 18 Alpha, 1 Charlie and 1 Mike for a total score of 1.8032 hit factors but could not improve his performance.

In his 2nd attempt as he managed to get 13 Alpha, 6 Charlie, 1 Delta and 1 No shoot for 1.5658 hit factors after he finished the course in 47.26 seconds.

In 5th place was Muath Al Assaf, he took the time to finish the course under 57.69 seconds after collecting almost a perfect hits with 18 Alpha and just 2 Charlie for a total of 1.6641 hit factors. His 2nd attempt was a little bit off the mark as he only hit 10 Alpha and 10 Charlie this time under 57.08 seconds that gave him 1.4015 hit factors.

Mohanned Al Turkait came in 6th place with another perfect shoot and finished the course in 50.49 seconds. He collected 14 Alpha, 4 Charlie and 2 Delta that gave him a total score of 1.6637 hit factors.

FAST VP Cesar Isidro was not in his normal form after leading the event for two consecutive days and fell short this time. He had 1 Mike on his 1st attempt together with 13 Alpha, 5 Charlie and 1 Delta under 44.29 seconds that gave him 1.6031 hit factors and not enough to put him on top. His 2nd attempt was not that different from his 1st attempt although he had a perfect shoot this time under 48.86 seconds and collected 11 Alpha, 8 Charlie and 1 Delta for 1.6373 hit factors.

Omar Al Ansari

Lambert Bernardo

Fawaz Al Anizi took the last and final place for tonight’s competition and closed the event after hitting all the alphabets with 13 Alpha, 1 Bravo, 4 Charlie and 2 Delta under 51.77 seconds that gave him a total score of 1.5658 hit factors.

After three shooting events, the FAST organizers summarized all the performance factors of each shooter taking the top score of each participants on every event and picked the top two of three events for the final score. 1st place was given to Lambert Bernardo who tops the President’s Cup 2016 Standard Division with average performance factors of 69.45 percent.

FAST VP Cesar Isidro came in 2nd place with total average performance factors of 65.09 percent and only 0.02 percent gap between him and 3rd place winner Armando Reyes after getting 65.07 percent.

Completing the magic 5 line-up are Malik Javed Iqbal who came in close with 62.09 percent and rank 4th place and last but not the least Muath Al Assaf who had 55.99 percent and took in 5th place.

In the Professional Category On the last and final day of the shooting event, Garcia finally captured a win for tonight by putting on speed to the test and proved to be right as he holds the fastest time in the same category after finishing the course in 30.24 seconds and collected 16 Alpha, 2 Charlie and 2 Delta for a total score of 2.9101 hit factors.

Omar Al Ansari almost took the lead but time permits him to do so as it took him 34.92 seconds to finish the course. He collected 17 Alpha, 2 Charlie and 1 Delta for a total score of 2.6346 hit factors.

Never to be outdone, his 2nd attempt was not different at all. He collected 13 Alpha, 3 Charlie and 4 Delta under 34.32 seconds for 2.2727 hit factors and although he had another attempt wherein he tried to run faster did not work as he clocked in 34.35 seconds and did a horrible hits after collecting 9 Alpha, 1 Bravo, 3 Charlie, 2 Delta and 5 Mikes for a total of 0.2620 hit factors.

Waleed Al Mutawah also suffered a defeat as he took the 3rd place tonight and even with his almost perfect hits with 19 Alpha and 1 Charlie under 34.97 seconds together with 1 No Shoot penalty on his performance that gave him 2.5164 hit factors is not enough to put him on the top. Even his 2nd attempt is not that great as he missed 2 targets under 37.85 seconds and collected 14 Alpha and 4 Charlie for a total of 1.6380 hit factors.

Mohammed Al Sadoon took the last place with 39.67 seconds and a perfect shoot performance after collecting 16 Alpha and 6 Charlie for a total score of 2.2183 hit factors. On his 2nd attempt, he had a great run under 36.44 seconds and with 15 Alpha, 4 Charlie and 1 Delta that gave him 2.4149 hit factors better that his 1st attempt.

With the above results, combined with the previous shooting event, the winner for the Professional Division was Waleed Al Mutawah who had total average performance factors of 100 percent after topping the 1st and 2nd day of the competition.

Garcia finished in 2nd place with 93.09 percent followed by Omar Al Ansari with 89 percent and Mohammed Al Sadoon took 4th place with 78.08 percent

After completing the final round of the precision shooting event for both division the following were the winners in order for the Professional Division, Waleed Al Mutawah scored an average of 177 points followed by Omar Al Ansari with 163 points. Mohammed Al Sadoon took 3rd place with 160 points and FAST President Garcia was at 4th place with 134 points and Tamer Al Mutariat had 52 points for 5th and final place.

In the Standard Division, Malik Javed Iqbal topped the class with an average of 149 points, followed by Majid Al Mulla with 131 points. In 3rd place was Muath Al Assaf with 124 points and in 4th place was Salem Motalq with 95 points and last but not the least Mohanned Al Turkait with 94 points.

FAST officials congratulated all the winners of the 2016 President’s Cup. The awarding of trophies and medals will commence at 8:00 pm, Tuesday, Dec 6. Everyone is invited to join the fun.

On the other hand, FAST officials would like to invite everyone Tuesday evenings to the weekly funshoot competitions at 1800 hours.

For details, on all FAST activities, contact Garcia on 66368018 and Isidro on 99530301 or look us up on Facebook ‘FAST – Kuwait’.