The Association aims at conducting a cross country carnival which provides students with the opportunity to participate and to represent their school in accordance with the main aims of the Constitution of the ACC. The Cross Country carnival is not divisional and all ACC schools are invited to compete on the same day.

Scoring at the carnival is on the basis of placings and a runners place is their score i.e. place 23 = 23 points. The lower the place the better the score and the school with the lowest overall score wins. The scoring is also constructed such that for a school to qualify for an event they must have a minimum of three runners complete the course within the prescribed cut off time. To qualify for overall aggregate trophies schools must qualify for all events in an age group.

The top three place getters in each race are presented with medallions and the top five place getters are selected in the honorary representative team.

A maximum of 8 competitors only per gender age group may run for an individual school.  More students can be nominated for the carnival but only 8 may run per gender age group.  

For more information on the carnival follow the links to the left.