South Side Smackdown / Tiro Cup
- Hosted By: Chicago Training Center
Last year's South Side Smackdown and The Tiro Cup featured several erg events, included below. Each participant was required to complete an individual 2k (subsitutied with a 500m piece, if a middle schooler or a 1000m piece, if a master), qualifying them to participate in other team events: doubles 1k (not on sliders), 2k relay with up to 8 people per team, 10 minute relay for meters, 500m on quads on sliders. This year's event will also feature exciting team events! TBD on exact schedule and event listings.
The last Tiro Cup pre pandemic was hosted in 2019, with the following overview description for the event:
The Tiro Cup is an event for novice rowers, with “novice” being defined as any middle school aged athletes, freshmen in high school, and other high school athletes in their first year of rowing. Each novice will compete as an individual in a 2000m race. Each club will register a mixed quad of 2 girls and 2 boys to compete in a 1000m sprint, to which the cup will be awarded.