While being accurate at extremely long ranges, what most archers need to excel at is the firing rate. In most armies, their role would be to drown the enemy in a rain of arrows from atop walls or from behind cover. This means that an army would rather have a thousand archers who can fire multiple arrows a second and only have a range of a hundred meters than a couple of snipers who excel at long ranges.
The second contest is only about sheer volume and sundering firepower.
The archer's target was a ten-by-ten-meter wall that was two hundred meters away.
The archers' goal is to fill it with as many arrows as they can in ten seconds, with bonus points for those who manage to destroy the wall.
A hundred walls were formed in different directions so multiple archers could be tested at the same time, and the champions of the first round were left for last to keep the crowd on their seats.
