NOTICE

Important change to USPA Rule 1 TEAMS for 2010

1. TEAMS

f. Effective January 1, 2010 each Team in a USPA event with an upper handicap limit of 22 goals or less shall, excluding the sponsor, have a minimum of one Registered Player Member as defined in the Association By-laws.

1. TEAMS f. INTERPRETATION: The definition of “sponsor” refers to the individual responsible for the team. The designation of the team “sponsor” is left to the Club Tournament Committee and all such designations should be made before the start of the event. In the event of a dispute of the committee’s decision, any aggrieved team or player has recourse to the Protest procedure in the Association’s By-law 12.

A team sponsored by a Registered Player Member (i.e. U. S. citizen) must have at least one additional Registered Player Member.

A team sponsored by an Affiliate Member must have at least one Registered Player Member.

It is the Team’s burden to convince the Club Committee and, in the event of a Protest, the USPA Hearing Committee, that the individual designated as a “sponsor” is responsible for the team and meets the commonly accepted definition of “sponsor.”
In the event of multiple sponsors, one shall be designated as the “primary sponsor” and there shall be at least one Registered Player Member in addition to this individual.

Should a team be supported by a non-playing “sponsor” one player shall be designated as the “sponsor” and there must be at least one Registered Player Member in addition.