Team State Qualifying Procedures 2024 (Two significant changes, FAQ links, Injury reporting instructions, etc.)

[maligned]

 

Here is the 2024 Team State Qualification Procedures doc, which includes injury reporting instructions and Category levels for all sectional and regional sites. Additionally, two significant changes to qualification are outlined in the document:

 

1. Class 3A will now permanently have 12 participants rather than its previous total of 8.

2. Classes 3A, 2A, and 1A will now have its final 4 wildcards (slots 9 through 12) determined by IN-SEASON voting in December. Previously only the final 2 wildcards were chosen by in-season voting. 

       (note: 4A will continue to have 8 participants and 2 vote-in spots from its much smaller class of about 32 to 34 teams.)

 

IHSWCA Team State Duals Qualification Procedures 2024.pdf

 

Finally, here are links to all of the most common questions about the process:

 

General Qualification and Scoring Process:

 

Team Classification:

 

Controlling for Sectional and Regional Difficulty:

 

Injuries and "Those scores don't seem fair" situations:

Edited January 30 by maligned

[brickfor6]

Awesome work! Will you be releasing the leader boards every week?

[maligned]

Yes, same as always. 

 

Sectional leaderboard usually isn't till Thursday. It might be later this time. Two of the three of us that usually do most of the work have significant travel this week. Got a new Cook in the kitchen helping us a little though, so we shouldn't be too far off schedule.

[Y2CJ41]

19 minutes ago, maligned said:

Yes, same as always. 

 

Sectional leaderboard usually isn't till Thursday. It might be later this time. Two of the three of us that usually do most of the work have significant travel this week. Got a new Cook in the kitchen helping us a little though, so we shouldn't be too far off schedule.

Hopefully it's not a short order cook.

[ENoblewrestling]

Are we using the same enrollment numbers and classifications as in the past, or has that not been determined yet?

[MattM]

5 hours ago, ENoblewrestling said:

Are we using the same enrollment numbers and classifications as in the past, or has that not been determined yet?

 

[Starz1994]

How are Category 7 Regionals scored?  Do the Top 7 get SSQ points?

[maligned]

46 minutes ago, Starz1994 said:

How are Category 7 Regionals scored?  Do the Top 7 get SSQ points?

Yes, so basically only the lowest sectional-placer that loses in the regional quarterfinals doesn't get SS round 1 points. The other 7 in the regional bracket do.

Edited February 8 by maligned

[Starz1994]

1 hour ago, maligned said:

Yes, so basically only the lowest sectional-placer that loses in the regional quarterfinals doesn't get SS round 1 points. The other 7 in the regional bracket do.

Thank You!

[Keepitlegal]

Might I suggest all schools that “assemble” aka recruit their teams compete in their own division.  Level the playing field for teams that play by the rules.  Get kids excited and amped up to compete again.