1 – The entry is open to all pigeons, national and international, and all must have approved official ring of Federation / Association, having its owners to be members of the Associacao AGD.

2 – All pigeons participating must have participated in one of the previous editions of Sommer Race or Winter Race.

3 – The activation costs 100 EUR per Pigeon and payments should be made to :

ASSOCIAÇĀO
AGD – ONE LOFT RACE

IBAN : PT50 0045 7104 4037 1837 6172 7
SWIFT: CCCMPTPL

4 – Only previous owners can activate their own pigeons until the last training. After the last training everyone else can activate not activated pigeons.

5 – Activation will be only valid after sending an email to sara@algarvegreatderby.com and henrique@algarvegreatderby.com together with a proof of payment. Activation requests will be ordered on a first-come, first-served order of the request to the email, sending email is mandatory, and may not be sufficient for the activation of pigeons only the bank proof, this by itself may not guarantee the activation of pigeons, and the organization is not responsible or guaranteed, activations that are not accompanied by email to request such activations.

6 – Only ACTIVATED pigeons are entitled to prizes.

7 – All races will be the same as the ones for the AGD Winter Race 2024 plus a Long Distance Race Final

8 – Ace-Pigeon will be the one which gather more points in all the official races. It is mandatory to arrive in the first 50% of the final race or within the day after the race in case not 50% of the pigeons arrived. In the Final race this period will be extended in one additional day. The points are calculated based on the arrival ranking, where the first pigeon gets 1 point, the second gets 2 points and so on. Classification stops at the 50% of pigeons arrived. All pigeons without classification will get as much points as the last pigeon classified in the first official race + 1 point. The points for not classified pigeons stays the same until the end of the competition.

9 – Prizes (EUR) based on 300 participating pigeons. If less participating pigeons, then this table will be proportionally recalculated.

Ranking	Final Race	Ace-Pigeon
1	1500	1500
2	1300	1300
3	1100	1100
4	900	900
5	700	700
6	500	500
7	400	400
8	300	300
9	200	200
10	100	100
11	100	100
12	100	100
13	100	100
14	100	100
15	100	100

10 – Auctions

All pigeons will be auctioned after the competition. The owner gets 35% of the sale price.

11 – Taxes:

The amounts mentioned in the Regulation include VAT at the rate in force, since applicable, and all prizes are in euro. According to the opinion of the Tax Authority and Portuguese law, all participants / members resident in Portugal who receive money from prizes, pigeon sales or commissions, will be responsible for the payment of its tax (25%), referring to these funds, withholding by the AGD (Organizing Club) of this amount, which will then send it to the Tax Authority, as determined by law. Non-residents in Portugal are exempt from paying the tax, and there is no withholding (25%), the prizes will be paid in full, provided that they present a tax residence certificate abroad, or model 21-RFI duly completed and stamped, and if they do not provide proof of tax residence outside Portugal the AGD will have to deduct in the premiums the amount of 25 %, and then send that money to the Portuguese Tax Authority.

12 – Unforeseen

In the event of any anomaly, such as a pandemic, impositions of higher entities, meteorological catastrophe, sabotage, or others, unrelated to the organization, that it is not possible to hold all the official races, entitled to prizes, after the pigeons have entered the loft and are paid, the organization will sell the pigeons at auction, 35% of the sale price for the owner of the pigeon, and the participants of that year will be entitled to entry to the next edition free of charge, in the same number of pigeons that participated that year. In the event that any unforeseen of the above occurs after some races have already taken place, they will be void, as well as the respective prizes won. 

Any eventuality that leads to conflict not covered by this regulation, will be resolved by the organization, and this decision will be sovereign.