Eligibility, Liability, Judging, and Governing Body

All skaters must have participated in their own local State Games within the past two years in order to participate in State Games of Mid-America. An exception will be made for those skaters from states that do not participate in the National Congress of State Games.

All Missouri skaters are eligible to compete.

This will be a US Figure Skating sanctioned event endorsed by the ISI under the Joint Statement of Policy, but membership in US Figure Skating and/or ISI is NOT required. Registered members of the US Figure Skating and ISI must be in good standing. US Figure Skating and ISI members must include their membership numbers. Skaters holding both USFS and ISI memberships must compete at the highest level tested of the two governing bodies.

US Figure Skating’s ordinal scoring method, the 6.0 system, with separate marks for technical merit and for composition and style will be used. Where events include restrictions, judges will instructed to deduct 0.1 to .5 for every element included that is not permitted.

Please note: All judges will be required to attend a judges meeting. The Chief Referee will be explaining all rules and regulations pertaining to judging. Date and time still to be determined.