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			<h3 style="text-align: left;">TCS Rules & Tournament Format</h3>
				
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		<p>Listed below is the tournament format with additional rules.<br />
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<b>Age Divisions for all 2010 events</b><br />
Atom (8U), Mite (10U),<br />
Squirt (12U), Peewee (14U),<br />
Bantam (16U), Midget (18U),<br />
Junior (21U), Women (14+),<br />
Adult (18+), &amp; Masters (35+)<br />
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<b>Age Cutoff for all 2010 events<br />
</b>December 31<sup>st</sup>, 2009<br />
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<b>Team Entry Fee</b><br />
Regional: $495 (3 Guaranteed Games)<br />
National: $650 (4 Guaranteed Games)<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;-Adult Elite Division w/ Cash Prize: $950 (4 Guaranteed Games)&nbsp;&nbsp;<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; -Teams in the Adult Elite Division&nbsp;are not eligible for any registration incentives</p>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Entry fees are non-refundable unless the tournament you register for is cancelled.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><b>Leveled Age Divisions</b><br />
All age divisions will offer Gold/Silver/&amp; Bronze (REC) skill levels pending on the number of teams entered for all regional events.&nbsp;For Nationals, teams will be placed in either Gold/Silver/or Bronze (REC) according to their regional qualifier performance.&nbsp; However, in the adult (18+)&nbsp;there has been added&nbsp;an Elite division that offers a cash prize based on the #&nbsp;of teams entered.&nbsp; In the adult elite division, teams are NOT required to play in a regional qualifier.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><b>RHA Membership</b><br />
All players are required to be a member of the Roller Hockey Alliance (RHA).&nbsp;</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><b>Proof Of Age</b><br />
All players in the following divisions will be required to show proof of age: Atom, Mite, Squirt, PeeWee, Bantam, Midget, Junior, &amp; Women&rsquo;s.&nbsp;The following documents will be accepted: Certified Copy or Copy Birth Certificate, Passport, State ID, &amp; Driver&rsquo;s License. <br />
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<b>Roster Guidelines</b><br />
Teams may roster up to 15 players (including skaters &amp; goalies) with a maximum of 2 goalies.&nbsp;All rosters must be turned in before 1<sup>st</sup> game, or risk a forfeit.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Every player must sign the roster.&nbsp;No roster additions or changes are allowed once the roster has been turned into a TCS Staff Member.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">All players must play in a regional to properly qualify unless your in the adult elite division.&nbsp; Being on a roster at a regional event will not qualify players for Nationals unless that player&nbsp;plans on&nbsp;playing up one or two age&nbsp;divisions at Nationals.&nbsp; A player who never plays in a regional qualifier is allowed to play at Nationals, but with only a gold level team.<br />
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All Gold qualified teams participating at Nationals are allowed unlimited roster changes to their regional roster.&nbsp; <b>In the adult gold division, teams are allowed TWO adult Elite players.&nbsp; This will be strictly enforced.<br />
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All Silver qualified teams participating at Nationals are allowed two roster changes to their regional roster.<br />
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All Bronze (REC) qualified teams participating at Nationals is allowed one roster change to their regional roster.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">A player is not allowed to play in Gold, Silver, and/or Bronze (REC) in the same age division at all events.<br />
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A player can play up&nbsp;one or two age divisions&nbsp;in Gold, Silver, and/or Bronze (REC) at all regional qualifiers.&nbsp;However, for Nationals a player playing up one or two age&nbsp;divisions&nbsp;in Gold, Silver, and/or Bronze (REC) must be on that particular roster from the regional qualifier.&nbsp; There is no limit on the&nbsp;# of players that&nbsp;can play&nbsp;up an age division or two for a regional qualifier or the national event.&nbsp; Female youth players are allowed to play down one year of elgibility.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">A player must play with his original qualified team unless that player&rsquo;s team is not participating at Nationals.&nbsp;In order for that player to still be elgible for Nationals, that player will need to get a release from his original team and must play for the division they qualified.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">A player is not allowed to play in Silver or Bronze (REC) at Nationals if qualified with a gold team in the same age division.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">A player that qualifies with one team and would like to switch to another team will need to acquire a written consent form from the team that player is switching from stating the release.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><b>Penalties</b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">All minor penalties will consist of 2 minutes.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">All major penalties will consist of 5 minutes and will carry an additional 1 game suspension, with possible tournament ejection.&nbsp;Any player that receives a major must leave the rink &amp; another player from their team must serve the 5 minutes.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">TCS Tournament Director can look into any incident that occurs during a game &amp; can assess an additional suspension regardless of what call was made in the game.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">All fighting majors will result in an automatic tournament ejection.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><b>Equipment</b></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal">Mandatory equipment&nbsp;includes helmet with&nbsp;full face protection (not including Adult division), elbow pads, gloves, shin pads, mouth guards (not including Adult division), and protective cup.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal">All teams must have matching jerseys or will risk a forfeit.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"><b>Game Format<br />
</b>Four on Four, plus goalies<b><br />
</b>2 (12) minute <i>stopped </i>periods<br />
Two minute warm-up<br />
One minute intermission<br />
One timeout per game<br />
8 Goal Mercy Rule will apply &nbsp;(The first period must be completed)<br />
Forfeits will be declared 8-0 victory (Any teams that deliberately forfeit a game in a regional or national will be reviewed by the staff in regards to the future eligibility for that team)<br />
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Tie Breakers: Total Points, Head-to-Head, Goals Against, Goals For, Goals Differential,&nbsp;&amp; 3 Man Shootout.&nbsp;If a team forfeits their playoff game (for any reason), will then re-seed all of the remaining teams.<br />
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Ties during the round robin play will be declared a tie.&nbsp;In playoffs and finals, ties will have a 5 minute running clock sudden death overtime, then a shoot out if necessary.&nbsp; Shoot-outs will be 3 shooters per team only and if still tied after 3 shooters, (new shooters will apply) and will go to 1 shooter per team until tie is broken.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal">Point system: 2 points for WIN &amp; 1 point for TIE</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal">Teams must be ready to play 30 minutes before their scheduled game time or risk forfeit.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">Minimum of 3 teams per division</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal">Home teams will wear light jerseys, away team dark jerseys.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal">All protests must be made prior to the drop of the puck/start of the game.&nbsp;The cost for a team to protest is $50.&nbsp;If that team shall win the protest, which in return will receive back the $50.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt; line-height: normal">Team coaches/managers are not allowed to request or look at another teams roster.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt">In the event a regional qualifer doesn't go, all teams registered for that perspective event will automatically be qualified for our National tournament.</div>
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