All organizers interested in hosting an Ontario Cycling sanctioned CX event are required to fill in the following EOI form. Once all Expressions of Interest (EOI) submissions have been received as per the dates below, a preliminary calendar for the season will be created for approval by the OC office. Once the calendar has been confirmed, organizers who have been approved will be contacted by Ontario Cycling to confirm their event date by signing an Organizer Agreement. All event sanctioning is subject to approval by the OC office.
Please note that organizers must provide a Land Use Permission Letter before being placed on the Ontario Cycling event calendar.
LINK TO 2026 CX EVENT EOI FORM
ALL CX EVENT ARE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT VIA THIS EOI FORM, ANY SUBMISSIONS PREVIOUSLY MADE IN ANOTHER FORM ARE VOIDED.
CX EOI Submission Deadlines:
- Opens - Monday May 11th
- Prelim Calendar Deadline - Monday May 25th
With an increasing interest in hosting CX OCup events and limited date options available, the following terms have been identified to make the selection process for OCup events as clear as possible:
- OCup Eligibility - Only organizers who have hosted a sanctioned regional event within the previous 5 years or an OCup/National event within 15 years are eligible to be granted an OCup sanction for their event.
- OCup Date Selection Process - OCups must never conflict with one another. OCups must never conflict with a National event of the same discipline in Eastern Canada (ON, QC, NB, PEI, NS, NL). Where 2 or more organizers of an event (of equal sanction, i.e. Regional or OCup) request the same date, if a resolution is not met between the conflicting parties discretion for which event is awarded their preferred date falls onto Ontario Cycling. The organizing party not awarded the date will need to request a new non-conflicting date or will be granted their second/third date choice selection as applicable*.
- Black Out Dates - The weekends of September 5/6 (MTB OCup 4), September 12/13 (MTB Provincials), September 19/20 (Rochester CX), October 31/November 1 (CX Nationals/Provincials), and November 14/15 (CX Levis) will not be granted a CX OCup, any organizer who requests an OCup on these dates will be required to select a different date or have to run the event as a regional sanction on that date if applicable.
- Maximum # of OCups (5) - To produce a high quality and sustainable race series, the number of CX events that are granted an OCup sanction is capped at 5 total.
- *Date Selections - It is strongly recommended to submit more than one date choice for your event, if your preferred date is awarded to another event and a second/third option is not provided. Alternative dates may have already been claimed by other organizers.
*In the circumstance the requested date for an event is not approved and the organizing party refuses to change their date, OC will withdraw sanctioning.