Team Registration for the Tournament

Information for Registering your Team

Last year, we simplified our tournament registration process, by taking away sepearte liability and waiver forms and including them directly on or IWFFA membership forms. Each team registering for this tournament must send: Team Roster, IWFFA memberships and Hotel Bookings for all team participants (players, coaches, managers), and all monies.

Players are able to download our "Hotel Booking Form" from this web page, in order to facilitate their hotel booking. Once completed the form, Players can then email to our office and the IWFFA will make their hotel booking.

IWFFA membership forms are also available for download.

However, to receive the Team Roster, team contacts must email iwffa@iwffa.com our office for this form. The reason why we do this, is because this year, we can only take a maximum of 40 teams, and need to know how many and which teams are vying to come into the tournament. Also, we want to establish who your team's contact is, so that we are communicating important information to the right person.

Rosters - Fill in all information required. We ask for sizes to be included, so when your team wins the championship, our volunteers can sort sizes of Championship Sweatshirts to distribute at the Awards.

Rosters - Include your hotel confirmation number. If you are booking hotel at same time you submit your registration information, we will fill in your confirmation number. Do not hold up sending us your Registration packet.

All information sent to us (this includes individual IWFFA membership forms) must be typed.

We offer all paper work from our website in either: word or excel form for computer compatability.

We ask team contacts to send payments in cashier's check or money order payable to: IWFFA - for your team fee and all your teams' IWFFA memberships to: IWFFA / 25 A 7th ave / Key West, FL 33040. We cannot accept credit card payments for team registration fees. We do accept individual credit card payments for their own membership.

We are happy to mail (U.S. Postal Service) Team Registration Pacs directly to Team Contacts. Email us at iwffa@iwffa.com for us to mail to you. Please write in subject area: mail me hard copy of tournament registration. Make sure to include your mailing address and contact information (phone numbers, home, cell, work, email address)

Cancellation Policy: There are no penalties for withdrawing prior to December 14^th and your registration fee will be fully refunded. After December 14 ^th, half the registration fee will be returned. After December 31 st , no money shall be refunded.

Names cannot be switched for IWFFA Memberships. Once we process each membership, we cannot switch for another person.

What's New for 2008?

(new) IWFFA / U.S. National Division - This Open Division is for top U.S. teams (or if you think your team is good enough), who do not play in a seed round, but begin their competition on Thursday! The IWFFA realizes the sport of flag football for females is under organized as many leagues exist who use different set of rules, tournament formats, etc. We recognize that as the IWFFA continues to organize the sport in the U.S. and around the world, that in the U.S. there does NOT exist a national team to represent the country. This division addresses that void by offering this new division into our tournament whose championship team will be titled: "IWFFA / U.S. National Team 2008"

(new) Our last game of the tournament will be the: IWFFA / U.S. National Team vs. the Top International Team! We will schedule championship games for IWFFA / U.S. National Division and top Division for International Teams early Sunday. This will give both teams time to get ready for their last game of the tournament, and the top international team to choose any additional players for their roster.

(new) Open Roster for Top International Team - In this game, we realize that most top U.S. teams who compete in our events, bring a full roster. Most international teams bring 12 - 14 players when they travel to compete. We offer the top International team, the opportunity to fill up their roster prior to this last game, with other international players from other international teams competing in the tournament. Their choices may include players from other divisions. We wait to hear from our teams who register if this number will be 22, or match the number of players on the IWFFA / U.S. National Team roster.

(new) Divisions in other categories for the women will no longer be named - We will offer a seed round (pre-seeded by our computer program) to all other women's teams who will be sorted for competition in: Division 1 (top) , Division 2 and Division 3 (lower). In past years, names for our divisions were sometimes misleading. We try to go away from subjective descriptions of skill levels (Beginner, Middle, Competititve, Highly Competitive) and instead use a number for divisions to try to be more objective.

(new) We bring back our Best Player / Team Costume Contest for our Players Parade: Wednesday, Feb 6th from 5 - 6PM. Prizes to winners. . This worked out so well in the past, that we decided to bring it back. Individual Players, Fans and Teams may compete in this contest for our parade. Awards will be given at the Meet & Greet.

(new) Chain Gangs - which each team is required to provide during their own games, in years past, will now operate on a different schedule. Teams will now be required to provide a crew of 3 persons to hold chains for the next game (following their own). We will provide a schedule for Chain Gangs, at the Meet & Greet Captains Meeting. There, you will know what times your team will be responsible to hold chains. We do this, because some teams would rather focus on their games, and not be resopnsible to hold chains. Some teams are so small, that they do not have more than 8 - 10 players, and so during their games, would not be able to hold them. By using this system, teams actually will hold chains for a lesser amount of time.

(possible new) Non-Profit status - We are currently working on getting our Non-Profit, 501 C status to benefit teams, so they can get sponsors to help with their team costs. It may in time for this event. We will notify teams in our monthly IWFFA email updates.

For more information contact our office: Tel 1-888-GO-IWFFA ( 464 – 9332) / (305) 293 – 9315

Email: iwffa@iwffa.com