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This page describes the director certification process for NASPA members who want to become certified as tournament coordinators, tournament directors and club directors. If you were an NSA-certified director, please look instead at the grandfathering section of the Directors page.
The Tournament Committee and Club Committee set the certification criteria and oversee the certification process.
As a certified NASPA Tournament Coordinator you will be able to apply to the Tournament Committee to have a tournament sanctioned in your own name, but remain under apprentice restrictions when directing a club or tournament.
As a certified NASPA Director you will be able to:
There are several types of certification. To obtain any of them, you must be a member in good standing, and at least 18 years of age.
The easiest certification to obtain is that of an assistant director: someone who acts online on behalf of a director without full Internet access, such as a data inputter. If your club or tournament director asks you to be their assistant, ask them to contact the Tournament Committee, who will then certify you.
For any other type of certification, you must first take and pass the director’s test, as described below. When you do so, you are certified as an apprentice director, youth apprentice director, or young adult apprentice director, depending on your age.
You are then entitled to direct clubs and tournaments with some conditions, and under the supervision of a mentor director.
When your mentor determines that you are ready, the mentor should contact the Club Committee to upgrade your certification to tournament coordinator, club director or tournament/club director. A printed certificate will be issued to you, and if you attend the Director’s meeting at the NASC, it will be officially conferred upon you there.
If you are a tournament coordinator or club director, you may resume your apprenticeship if you wish to become fully certified as a tournament/club director.
Test Scheduling:
The test can be taken in two ways:
Test Taking and Grading:
Apprentice age limitations:
Upon passing the test, the applicant is granted apprentice director certification, and can codirect tournaments and/or clubs under supervision of a mentor if the age restrictions allow. At the discretion of the mentor, this supervision may take place in person or by telephone. Mentors must be fully certified directors; applicants may suggest their own mentors, or may ask to be assigned one.
An apprentice may submit tournament details to the Tournament Committee himself, as long as the submission is copied to his mentor.
When an apprentice’s mentor feels that the apprentice is ready to direct tournaments alone, the mentor notifies NASPA, which grants applicant full director status. The mentor will refer to the following checklist in assessing the apprentice.
If the apprentice satisfies all of the above conditions, the apprentice may be granted certification to operate as a tournament coordinator. Tournament coordinators can
apply to the Tournament Committee to have a tournament
sanctioned in their own names, but remain under apprentice
restrictions when directing a club or tournament.
If the apprentice satisfies all of the above conditions,
the apprentice may be granted certification to operate as a
club director, but not a tournament director.
If in addition the apprentice meets all of the following
conditions, the apprentice may be granted full certification
to operate as either a club director or a tournament
director.
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