2012-2013/1.1 - Kentucky High School Speech League

KHSSL Handbook 52 2012-2013/1.1a. Qualifying Events. A qualifying event shall be defined as an event which has anadequate number of bona fide participants to justify allowing those contestants who excelled inthat event at that tournament to prequalify.b. A "bona fide participant" is defined as a contestant who actually performs in all preliminaryrounds of the tournament; thus students who drop either at registration or duringpreliminary rounds shall not be counted. Additionally, students from the host schoolshall not be counted, even if they participate.‣ There must be at least 12 bona fide participants in an event in order for the top 6finalists to pre-qualify.‣ For events with less than 12 bona fide participants the top three will qualify.‣ In the event that the top 6 or top 3 noted in (a) and (b) include contestants from school notmembers of KHSSL, then those positions will be skipped over; no contestants from outsidethe top-6 (or top-3) will pre-qualify for State.14. All judges should be certified by KHSSL. The Executive Director shall establish procedures forcertification by the end of September of each academic year.15. The League office will notify the appropriate schools of their prequalifiers after each tournament viathe website. Students who prequalify in this manner gain a single advantage--namely, that they maybe allowed to compete in the State Championship tournament, regardless of their performance atthe regional tournament, provided they follow all other guidelines involving prequalification and theregional and State Championships. Coaches and students alike, therefore, need to be aware ofthese important regulations:‣ A student may not prequalify through an invitational tournament sponsored by his/her ownschool or through any out-of-state tournament.‣ A student can participate in a maximum of three events at the Regional and StateTournaments, even though he/she may have prequalified in more than three events.‣ To retain his/her prequalifying status for the State Championship in a particular event,he/she must appear on the regional entry form and that student must participate at the regionaltournament unless excused for good and sufficient reason by the Executive Director. Therequest should be documented as appropriate to the situation.‣ If excused by the Executive Director, the excused student must appear on the Regionalentry form and appropriate fees must be paid.16. Regardless of the number of students who have prequalified for the State Championship from aparticular school in a particular event, the school may enter a maximum of three students in eachevent at the Regional tournament. Additional prequalifiers may be used as substitutes at the StateChampionship until the registration due date.