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Frequently Asked Questions
How many teams can a school have?
A school can have as many teams as they wish participating in regional tournaments (1 Varsity Team and the rest Junior Varsity teams).  Only your "Varsity team", however, is eligible to qualify your school for the State Tournament. The Junior Varsity team(s) will compete in the same rooms/areas with the Varsity team in the events but will be required to be distinguished and separated from the Varsity team. Varsity teams compete against other Varsity teams and Junior Varsity teams compete against other Junior Varsity teams.  A first and second place trophy will be issued in the Junior Varsity division to the top teams as well as first and second place medals for each individual event in the Junior Varsity Division. The Varsity competition will award trophies to the State Qualifying teams (based on a quota system) and medal placing up to 5th place (depending on the size of the tournament).

A minimum of 4 Junior Varsity teams must be registered in a regional competition in either the B or C division in order to have the medals and trophies presented for them.

Junior Varsity team members MAY NOT switch to the Varsity team and compete in events with them during the regional tournament. This applies to all events, walk-ins as well. Varsity and Junior Varsity teams from the same school are to compete as though they were from two different schools. No collaboration of any kind is allowed between the Varsity and Junior Varsity teams from one school.

Following the Regional Tournament, coaches will be provided with spreadsheets to show how Junior Varsity teams placed in each event compared to the Varsity teams in order to use this information to determine who goes on from a school to the State Tournament.  In many cases, the Junior Varsity teams score and place better than the Varsity teams.

The team that represents a school at the State Tournament can be any students the coach and team decide. It could even be someone who did not compete at the Regional Tournament. The only thing the regional tournament does is to qualify the school to send a team to the State Tournament. Who the members of the final team are who compete at the State Tournament is totally up to the school. The only requirement is that all students on a team be members of that school’s student body as defined by the administration of the school.

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