AWCE or Adverse Weather Conditions Eventing is a sport invented in the UK during April 2012.
It is a unique sport where vast amounts of money and time is spent but there are no winners. Competitors spend months and months training horses to a high level with the aim to take part in a fictional Horse Trials. In the days before the Event they speculate on Face Book and Twitter as to weather (!!!!!) the Event will be rained or snowed off, adverse sunshine is surprisingly rare.
There is a theory the sport was invented by the designers of social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter with the aim of obtaining more members. This is certainly working, recent new members after an entire weekend of the sport being abandoned include Olympic Gold Medallist Matt Ryan and 4* rider Louise Harwood.
Once the event has been called off competitors and volunteers (amazing people who do all the work) compete to take the best photo of the Abandoned Event. Flooded fields or jumps covered with snow are the norm.
Everyone then has a day off watching rubbish daytime tv while planning for the next AWCE.
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