The Tournament will be broken into two rounds:
Throwers must throw from two distances during a match.
- 1st distance: The first 5 throws of a match will be thrown from behind the 10-foot line and the distance may not exceed 15 ft.
- 2nd distance: The second 5 throws of a match will be thrown from behind the 20-foot line and the distance may not exceed 25 ft.
Once all 5 knives have been thrown in a round, the thrower must stay behind the 10ft fault line until all knives are scored.
Each competitor is allowed three warmup throws before round 1 only and all competitors must complete the first round before any thrower can move on to the second round.
Throws will be made at a bullseye target with the following point structure:
Yellow ring 5 points
Red ring 4 points
Blue ring 3 points
Black ring 2 points
White Ring 1 point
Kill-shot dots 8 points
A knife that touches a ring between two different colors will be counted as the color closest to the bullseye.
All knives will be thrown before being scored. The following rules will apply:
- A separate judge will score all rounds
- All 5 knives must be thrown before being scored
- Knives that fall out of the target will count as zero
- Knives must stick by the point. Knives that stick edge in or handle in score zero
- Kill-shot attempts must be called before throwing. Misses count as zero points regardless of where the knife lands on the target
- Each kill-shot spot can only be hit one time per 5 knives in each round
- Throwers may use their own knives, but they must have 5 to throw. Throwers may not throw knives, retrieve them and then throw more knives until they reach 5 throws in a round.
In the event of a tie after tallying the total score of the two rounds, a sudden death round will be held.
In sudden death:
- only bullseye hits count
- players alternate throws until 1 player misses the bullseye.
- Example: thrower 1 hits the bullseye, thrower 2 also hits the bullseye. The throwers will each get another attempt. In round two both players miss and proceed to another round. In round three thrower 1 misses and thrower 2 hits the bullseye. Thrower 2 wins the sudden death competition.
The rules above will be applied to axes as well in the event of an axe throwing tournament.