Warm-Up
Participating teams are encouraged to bring their team fight song or state song.  Music may be played during warm-up period over venue’s p.a. system or on portable music system.  If both teams provide music, music shall be alternated.

Coach’s Conduct
-In a National Championship, if a coach receives two technical fouls, he/she shall leave the game and the facility as well.  The ejected coch may not coach the next game. However, if in a subsequent game, the same coach again receives two technical fouls, he/she shall be removed from the competiton venue and wll not be allowed to coach the remainder of the tournament.  Coaches must sign the Coach’s Code of Ethics at registration.

Coaching Restrictions
-National Champtionship Tournament Directors CANNOT coach any team competing in the National Championships for which he/she is director.  No National Executive Committee member may function as a member of that committee if he/she is coaching in that tournament.


The above is word-for-word from Tournament Format section on Page 18 of the 2008 Handbook.