Overview

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Click Here to download the Rules & Regulations (as of July 11, 2025). Note, the Gear List is also included here.
Updates from the previous version dated Sept. 16th, 2024 include:

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Section 3. Schedule of Events Updated:

 Saturday

Race Check-In: 06:00 – 07:00

Registration procedure:

• Check-In (provide; cell phone number, ensure forms completed, provide any last-minute teammate changes/updates)

• Pick-up Race Bibs, Bike Plates, Sport Ident Timing Stick, Event T-shirts

 Gear Drop-Off: 06:00 – 07:30 (Provide Gear Bins/Bags and Equipment to Race Management)

 Tracking Device Pick-Up & Cell Phone Sealing: 06:30 – 07:30

 New Technology Lockdown for 2025: Teams must come to the Race Briefing @ 7:30am prepared to board buses and start the race. After the briefing begins, no further access to vehicles, gear bins, or technology will be permitted. No other maps may be referenced or carried during the event; this includes online maps. All internet capable devices are prohibited from this moment until your team finishes the event.

Race Briefing and Q&A + Map Hand-Out: 07:30

Board Buses for drive to Start: 08:15

Buses Depart: 08:30

Arrive at Start Location: 09:50

Race Start: 10:00

 

Section 5. Teams updated:

• Each racer must remain within 100 m of all his/her teammates at all times during the competition. Added: All team members must travel to within 5m of each checkpoint, and be within 5m at the time the CP is punched, unless instructed otherwise by Race Organizers.

 

Section 6.1 Mandatory Gear

Removed from the gear list:

 

Full-Time per Team Member

1 Long-sleeved mid-weight fleece top

 

Full-Time per Team

2 Launching distress flares

 

Section 10. Rankings

 

Race Statuses Added:

• WT Race Statuses:
  - Expedition
  - Explorers
  - Challenge
  - Unranked - Team is racing unofficially. This may happen if a team drops to two members or if they are still on the race course after missing a mandatory checkpoint. In the latter case, the team will be changed to Retired status after they cross the finish line.
  - DQ - Team has been disqualified and removed from the race as a penalty for an infraction.
  - Retired - Team has stopped racing without completing one of the three official courses.

 New rule added:

 Official results could be adjusted at any time if new information becomes available. 

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2025 Race Communications Protocol + YellowBrick User Guide - All teammates should be familiar with these in case of emergency.

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Click Here for the 2026 Competitor Update (posted 2 weeks before the event)

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Click Here for the 2026 Team List with Team Numbers assigned (will be added the week of the event)​

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Documents which need to be filled out and signed prior to arrival at the host site. Participants will receive an email copy of the waiver and must bring this digital copy with them to show at Race Kit Pick-Up.:

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2026 Waiver and Release of Liability 

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2026 Medical Form 

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​Click Here to see Teams Bringing Personal Canoes to WT 2026 (posted 2 weeks before the event) 

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ARWS vs WT Rules

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Where a WT rule conflicts with an existing ARWS rule, the WT rule will take precedence. Conflicting rules we’re aware of:

 

1. A 4 person team can lose a member and remain ranked as a 3 person team for WT ranking and Ontario AR Series ranking purposes. ARWS rankings will not include teams who lose a member.

 

2. ARWS Rule 2.8. Race bibs must be worn as the outer most garment for the duration of the race (excepting over Personal Flotation Devices). Obstruction or impairment of the printing on the bib is not permitted. A backpack is permitted to cover the back of the bib only. A thin sternum strap between the shoulder straps on the front of an athlete is permitted. Vest type front packs that obstruct printing on the front of the bib are prohibited. Local laws for high visibility vests will be accommodated. An alternate identification may be provided by the race organisers for use with the PFD in which case it must be worn or attached by each competitor as specified. [BLUE]

 

At WT, bibs must be worn as the outermost layer at all times, including over PFD’s. Vest packs are permitted at WT.

 

3. ARWS Rule 2.4 Any mandatory equipment which is consumed during a leg (for example first aid supplies) must be replaced before the start of the next leg. If teams do not have the required items to replenish their mandatory equipment they must remain in that location until a replacement can be borrowed from another team, requested from the Race Organiser, or otherwise obtained by the team.

 

WT will not be following this rule.

 

4. ARWS Rule 2.9.1. Sails or kites are not permitted unless the Race Organiser specifically includes sailing as an event discipline.

 

WT will not be following this rule, sails, or kites are permitted.

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