When a modification or amendment is made only to clarify national policy, the State Committee is not obligated to seek Chapter Coordinators' input about or TSPE Board of Directors' approval of such judgment. As necessary, the State Committee will make revisions to the written notice of judgment based on the Chapter Coordinators and State Committee dialogue during this annual meeting prior to the TSPE Liaison Officer presenting the written notice of judgment for approval by the TSPE Board of Directors. Written judgments to the existing State policies that do not require ratification are printed in italics and those that do require ratification are printed in bold below. Qualified students shall not be allowed to compete in more than one Chapter Competition in any year. A student may not officially compete in more than three yearly Chapter Competitions.
Contests are to be held with the student's utmost interest in mind.
It is State policy that any chapter holding their chapter competition outside the chapter window will not be eligible to advance to the State contest. This number shall be based on the number of teams registered by the official registration deadline or a date thereafter set by the State Committee and may vary from year to year depending upon the number of registered teams from each Chapter. Moreover, if a school registers more than four students for a chapter competition, a team of four must be declared and the remaining students shall compete as individuals. If, at the chapter level, a coach arrives with fewer than four students, the students may compete at the chapter level as a team or as individuals. Moreover, for the substitute student to be considered an eligible substitute on the school team advancing to the state competition, the substitute student must be an officially registered sixth, seventh or eighth grade student and must have participated at the chapter level competition as an individual.