The Spectator The Basics Archery is a sport in which the participant uses a bow to shoot arrows at a target which has ten concentric circles. The score of each arrow depends upon where it lands on the target. The highest score, a ten, is achieved by shooting an arrow into the center, or bullseye.
Scores go down from nine for the next circle out to one for the outermost circle.
Missing the target results in a score of zero for that arrow. For indoor compound archery, a ten is scored only when the arrow lands inside the inner ten ring. After each end of arrows is shot, the arrows are scored. Outdoor Most major outdoor target archery competitions in the U.S. follow the same format of a FITA Round followed by an Olympic Round. Scores are then totalled to determine seedings into the Olympic Round.