QUALIFYING FOR EVENTS
The following outlines our qualification requirements for each event type:
Qualifying for All American Challenge & Training Camp Season Opener / Regional Classics Any firefighter can attend these events. At These events, our sport does offer an entry point for all first-time athletes to ensure they are properly aligned by performance, age, and gender. Qualifying for U.S. Nationals Competing in the U.S. National Championship is only possible if the athlete/ team competed at the All American Challenge Training Camp, Season Opener, or at one of the five (5) Regional Classic events. This ensures they are ready to compete on the national platform
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No exceptions to this rule
• Athletes that ran and successfully completed an Individual Category run at a qualifying event are eligible to compete in all categories. Athletes that only competed in a Tandem or Relay Category are only eligible to compete in these two categories. Qualifying for the World Championship Any firefighter from around the world can compete in this event because we offer four (4) days of highly competitive qualifying rounds to determine the small percentage of elite athletes and teams that will advance to the world title finale(s).
ELIGIBLE ATHLETES The TFT® Firefighter Challenge Championship Series is open to:
• career or volunteer firefighters (active or retired) ages 18+ that are employed by and/or are voluntary members of an organized fire department (i.e.: township, municipal, district, county, state, country, military, or industry) • licensed firefighters seeking employment • cadets • junior firefighters/explorers (ages 14-21) • accredited governmental or educational agencies with a fire service curriculum
At times, we do offer special events that allow non-firefighters to participate. Rules for these types of events will be customized for the type of event being offered. All rules and awards categories will be published with the event. DIVISIONS Our division, age and gender segmentation model align our sport with other professional sports that recognize the value and benefit of placing athletes with others based on their performance, age, and gender. athletes under the age of 40 (our largest body of athletes) are segmented into one of three (3) Divisions based on their Individual Category run time. • athletes over the age of 40 are automatically assigned to Division 1, and compete in their respective age/gender subcategory groups. 2 In our sport: •
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