How to Qualify for National Festival

• The State Champion  is automatically qualified BUT Must register by April 12, 2010

• Each State may send their State Champion and 3 other teams to their Regional.

• Each Regional competition will qualify 5 teams not already qualified to come.

• They MUST be registered by May 1!  If your Regional competition is after that date Regional Coordinator must let National Festival Coordinator know ASAP.  Note, if this is the date of your Regional meet we ask that you please register on site.

• “At large” Invites from committee will then begin starting Monday May 3. If you were close to qualifying you may receive a call and your team will need to answer yes or no on the spot.

• If a state has more than 100 Teams they may send 5 teams to Regional’s. There 5th place team might possible be looked at for an at large bid. They can only qualify up to 3 teams to National’s (plus their state champion) but as we look at “at large bids” we would look at them.

• If a state has 150 teams then they can send 6 teams to Regional’s.  At Regional’s they can only qualify up to 3 teams (plus their state champion) to Nationals, but then their other two teams could get looked at for an at large bid.