== How to Join ==
Regular We currently offer several different kinds of membership ,as listed below.Our current rates took effect on 2010-09-01 and will be valid through 2011-08-31. All prices are given in [[NASPA]] currently costs US$30 per year (regardless of residence: U.S.dollars, Canada or overseas)though there is a way for Canadian residents topay in Canadian funds.
To apply for membership, please complete our [{{SERVER}}/cgi-bin/join.pl online application]. You will be given a choice at the end of then paying online by Visa or MasterCard, or saving your information and mailing us a check.
See also our page of general information on
how to make [[Payment|payments]] to NASPA.
If you are a NASPA [[director]] with an upcoming [[tournament]], we will extend you temporary credit so that you can activate your players’ memberships as required before your tournament; you then pay for the memberships together with your tournament participation fee.
=== Regular Memberships purchased on or before December 31, 2009 have an extended initial term: your === A regular membership lasts one year and costs $30.If you pay for additional years of membership will be valid from at the receipt same time, up to a total of your dues through December 31five years, 2010the subsequentyears cost $25 each. After December 31So, for example, 2009a five-yearregular membership costs $130. === One-Week Memberships === If you play in only one tournament per year and are notinterested in the other benefits of NASPA membership, each youmay prefer to pay $19 for a one-week membership term will last twelve . Thisshould be enough to play in a weekend tournament, includingearly bird and late bird events. monthsYou may not extend thismembership to any other sort of membership.
=== Trial Memberships ===
First-time tournament players (those who do not have an NSA or NASPA
tournament [[rating]]) may buy ''either'' a full NASPA membershipare eligible to pay $15''or'' for a trial six-month membership (US$15) through their tournament organizer. If they optfor you buy a trial membership, they you have the option to extend it to a full membership by sending in an additional $15 at any time during the six-month trial period. === Youth Memberships === Members who are not yet eighteen years old on the firstday of their membership pay only $15 for a one-year membership.You may buy additional years of membership, up to a totalof five, at this rate, as long as you will not yet be eighteen years old on the first day of each new membershipyear. === Vanity Memberships === Membership numbers are assigned consecutively. If you wantto choose a specific as yet unassigned number, you can pay$50 for a one-year vanity membership.
== How to Renew ==