2004 Area 7 Championship

I regret the difficulties this will create for individuals wishing to shoot both the match and the 2004 Virginia Summer Classic. The overlap was unaviodable given range and staffing constraints. If you are interested in entering both matches, the VA Summer Blast match director and Area 7 Match Director will work to provide squadding to make this possible. If you need any special assistance in this area, please include a note in the registration form you send to both matches.

Area 7 Championship Details

• We expect that registration will be available on or before February 1, 2004, possibly earlier.

• The match fee $100. There will be little or no emphasis on prizes.

• The match fee includes a shirt.

• Staff working the entire match are entitled to shoot for free, but only in the Friday Range Officer/Staff slots.

• We will be using Palm scoring for near-instant results. We have proved this process at the 2003 Area 7 Championship and at the 2003 Infinity Open.

• Competitors will have until Midnight on Friday, June 18 to bring any corrections to stats attention via telephone, fax or email, so that persons who complete the match prior to Sunday afternoon do not have to wait around to check their scores.

A new approach to squadding

• Match registration will send a confirmation letter upon reciept of your paid registration. A personal registration password will be included in this letter. Please don't ask us to send your code prior to payment, as we are comitted to treating everyone in an identical manner. Lost codes may be replaced by sending a SASE to the registration address.

• You will then be able to visit the USPSA site (specific instructions will be included in your confirmation letter) and will be able to use this password to select your squad assignment on-line. You will be able to see all current squad selections, and may place yourself in any squad which has room. You will be free to move yourself to any squad which has an opening up until about 2 days before the match at which point we will "freeze" the squads.

• The only exception to this squadding process will be shooters who are confirmed as having paid for both the 2004 Area 7 Championship and VA Summer Blast, and match staff who will automatically be assigned a Friday shoot time. If you are shooting the A7 and VA Summer Blast and are not able to obain squadding on-line which works with your travel schedule, please contact Rob Boudrie for assistance with Area 7 Squadding after both matches have received your paid registration.

• USPSA will be making be making the self-service squadding system available free of charge to affiliated major matches sometime in 2004.