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NETAA is looking to expand the annual tournament tour with State and local level qualifying events run by clubs, shops, and organizations wishing to take part in the tour. Tournaments can be 3D, indoor 450 Rounds, and/or outdoor 540 Rounds. All these formats can be sanctioned as qualifiers for the annual Outdoor World Championship. By offering sanctioning to events across the country, NETAA plans to make qualification for the annual World Outdoor Championship more readily available to archers across the country.
NETAA will only run a few Regional Level events each year, primarily in the central core of the northeast region. These events will be limited to the three annual Triple Crowns (New England, New York, and Southern), a maximum of three indoor target events during the winter, and the Outdoor Championship. While sanctioning will not be granted to any tournament that would create a conflict with one of the Region Level events, there are many dates available. State championship and Local level tournaments will be sanctioned in areas of the northeast eleven states that are not adequately covered by a regional event. Additionally, there are openings for State level championships in both target and 3D games in each state outside the region.
Clubs, archery shops, and/or organizations wishing to run a NETAA qualifier should contact NETAA headquarters for a shoot sanctioning request form. Contact can be made by e-mail or phone (508) 473-6970. There is a $25.00 sanctioning fee payable with the sanctioning request form. If, for any reason, sanctioning is denied the fee will be returned. With the accepted sanctioning request form, the tournament authority will receive forms to be used in reporting the tournament results to NETAA. The results are to be reported by class to facilitate the mailing of invitations to all who qualify (top 20 archers in each class at each sanctioned qualifier will receive an invitation to register to compete at the Outdoor World Championship). NETAA mails all invitations.
There is a shooters fee payable to NETAA for every contestant competing in any NETAA sanctioned qualifier. The tournament authority is responsible for collecting this fee as part of the tournament registration fee, and forwarding it to NETAA headquarters with the tournament results report with-in ten days of the event. The shooters fee is $5.00 for each archer in the competition. A portion of each shooters fee ($3.00) is set aside for the cash awards program at the Outdoor World Championship where it will be paid down 100% to the archers in attendance by game and class (3D and/or target). Pay down is one place for every three contestants per class (maximum 10 places per class). Cash awards are presented in addition to huge trophies in all adult open classes. Youth classes receive trophies plus Aim For College Tuition Voucher Certificates (same pay down formula as cash awards).
To avoid conflicts no two tournaments will be sanctioned in the same geographic area in any season. To encourage tournament authorities to seek sanctioning, NETAA offers first right of refusal for the same tournament the following season to any organizer holding a qualifier that meets all contractual requirements/agreements.