You will find:
- How Qualifying Tournament Registration Works
- Region Lock Exemption
- Qualifying Tournament Registration SAMPLE Form
- Paying for your Qualifying Tournament
- Team Registration Status
1) How Qualifying Tournament Registration Works
Qualifying Tournament registration in Oregon will OPEN on October 5th at 5pm. The lead coach from the team will receive an email at 5pm. In the email, there will be a link to a surveymonkey application. This application must be completely filled out for EVERY team that is competing at an Oregon Qualifying Tournament this year. The lead coach or their appointed person may register the team anytime between 5pm on October 5 and 5pm on October 12.
To register the team, you need demographic information about the team, their 3 top choices for tournament, and their team name that they will use at the tournament. All of the questions asked can be seen on the tournament registration SAMPLE form, see below for more information.
Teams are assigned to events on a first-come-first-in basis with some consideration for regional access. Your team will be able to choose whether the day of the week or the location are more important, and we will do our best to accommodate all teams. It is our goal, that with rare exception, teams will not drive more than 2 hours to reach their tournament in good weather.
2) Region Lock Exemption
If your team does not have a completed national registration because you are waiting for FIRST to approve a coach's YPP or process a payment, please use this form to tell me all about it. This is the only way your team will be able to register on Wednesday for a qualifying tournament in Oregon without a complete national registration.
Dates are important in this form. It can take 5-10 business days for YPP to clear for a coach. If it takes longer I will be contacting FIRST on your behalf. It also helps to make sure that the coach has started this process. The same is true for checks and purchase orders.
Your team MUST be nationally registered with FIRST or on this list by October 4, tomorrow!
Qualifying Tournament registration in Oregon will OPEN on October 5th at 5pm. The lead coach from the team will receive an email at 5pm. In the email, there will be a link to a surveymonkey application. This application must be completely filled out for EVERY team that is competing at an Oregon Qualifying Tournament this year. The lead coach or their appointed person may register the team anytime between 5pm on October 5 and 5pm on October 12.
To register the team, you need demographic information about the team, their 3 top choices for tournament, and their team name that they will use at the tournament. All of the questions asked can be seen on the tournament registration SAMPLE form, see below for more information.
Teams are assigned to events on a first-come-first-in basis with some consideration for regional access. Your team will be able to choose whether the day of the week or the location are more important, and we will do our best to accommodate all teams. It is our goal, that with rare exception, teams will not drive more than 2 hours to reach their tournament in good weather.
2) Region Lock Exemption
If your team does not have a completed national registration because you are waiting for FIRST to approve a coach's YPP or process a payment, please use this form to tell me all about it. This is the only way your team will be able to register on Wednesday for a qualifying tournament in Oregon without a complete national registration.
Dates are important in this form. It can take 5-10 business days for YPP to clear for a coach. If it takes longer I will be contacting FIRST on your behalf. It also helps to make sure that the coach has started this process. The same is true for checks and purchase orders.
Your team MUST be nationally registered with FIRST or on this list by October 4, tomorrow!
3) Qualifying Tournament Registration SAMPLE Form
To make sure the person who is registering your team for their qualifying tournament has all the information they need before the form goes live on Wednesday night, it is recommended to review the Qualifying Tournament Registration SAMPLE Form. This pdf looks exactly like the online application that must be filled out between October 5 and October 12 for your team to participate in a Qualifying Tournament. THIS PDF MAY NOT BE USED IN PLACE OF AN OFFICIAL ONLINE REGISTRATION. ORTOP does not accept paper versions of the application, filling this out is only for your own reference!
4) Paying for your Qualifying Tournament
Your team may start the payment process for the qualifying tournament registration fee. Your team's registration is not complete until they have paid for their qualifying tournament registration fee. Your team is welcome to use a secure online form and pay by credit card or they can send a check or purchase order by mail. All of these options are available on the Qualifying Tournament Payment page.
There has been a change to the Qualifying Tournament fees this year. This year the fee is on a sliding scale. This is to better reflect the true cost of this program. If your team needs a sponsor to cover part of your registration fee, up to $100. Please make sure you read the copy of the email from ORTOP Executive Director from July to understand all the details.
5) Team Registration Status
Later this week, the Team Registration Status will be posted on the ORTOP website. This Google Sheet will track all of the nationally registered teams (and teams on the exemption list) through the qualifying tournament registration system. By November 7, the tournament assignments will also be added to this sheet. The sheet must be manually updated because of the various systems involved, so if you just paid please a full business day before wondering why it is not showing on the Google Sheet. A link to this sheet will be posted on the ORTOP website.
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