Local Assignors:
To request Judges from the NYSCJA State Assignor: Click Here for the NYSCJA Assignor Request Form only after completing the following steps. These steps only apply if you have a local assignor, NOT a BOCES or similar program for assignments controlled by your Section office.Event Producers/Schools hosting competitions should first send their request to you as the local assignor. Many sections have a local assignor and some use BOCES or another program to assign their judges.
Prior to completing form:
1. Email ALL local members confirming if anyone has a schedule change and is now available to work the competition where there are vacancies. CC the state assignor on this email ([email protected])
2. Wait 24hrs for responses from your section members. If a member in your local section is available, please fill the vacancy internally. If after 24hrs no one is available, proceed to the NYSCJA assignor form.
3. Competitions that are within five day can bypass this process and submit directly to the state assignor.
4. All other assigning protocols will remain effective once the assignment is submitted to the state assignor.
Once these steps have been completed and confirmed, the following will take place:
Per Todd Nelson, Assistant Director, NYSPHSAA, scholastic Cheerleading competitions in New York State are not allowed to use non-certified judges. This is stated in the contract between NYSPHSAA and NYSCJA and applies to all sports. All judges need to be NY State certified judges, and members of the NYSCJA. We need to continue following the correct procedures when we do not have enough judges. First, reaching out to the State Assignor and asking for the judges that are needed. If we don’t have any available, we can run a competition with a minimum of 3 judges, one per scoresheet. If non-certified judges are used, that competition would not count toward the minimum number of competitions to qualify for States.
To request Judges from the NYSCJA State Assignor: Click Here for the NYSCJA Assignor Request Form only after completing the following steps. These steps only apply if you have a local assignor, NOT a BOCES or similar program for assignments controlled by your Section office.Event Producers/Schools hosting competitions should first send their request to you as the local assignor. Many sections have a local assignor and some use BOCES or another program to assign their judges.
Prior to completing form:
1. Email ALL local members confirming if anyone has a schedule change and is now available to work the competition where there are vacancies. CC the state assignor on this email ([email protected])
2. Wait 24hrs for responses from your section members. If a member in your local section is available, please fill the vacancy internally. If after 24hrs no one is available, proceed to the NYSCJA assignor form.
3. Competitions that are within five day can bypass this process and submit directly to the state assignor.
4. All other assigning protocols will remain effective once the assignment is submitted to the state assignor.
Once these steps have been completed and confirmed, the following will take place:
- If the local assignor is unable to fill all judging needs, the local assignor will fill out the NYSCJA Assignor Request Form.
- This should be done at least three weeks before the event.
- The NYSCJA State Assignor (SA) will send out a request to fill the judging needs of the competition to all officials’ associations across the State.
- The SA will state in the email request for officials that there will be a 2 day window for interested parties to email the SA stating that they would like to work the competition.
- After the deadline, the SA will email the President and the local assignor of the requesting Section (if there is a BOCES assignor or other, the SA will cc the local association’s VP or Secretary) with the names of any official(s) interested.
- The President/local assignor will email their choice(s) back to the SA within 24 hours.
- The SA will notify the chosen judges, confirming their selection, and will cc the President and local assignor.
Per Todd Nelson, Assistant Director, NYSPHSAA, scholastic Cheerleading competitions in New York State are not allowed to use non-certified judges. This is stated in the contract between NYSPHSAA and NYSCJA and applies to all sports. All judges need to be NY State certified judges, and members of the NYSCJA. We need to continue following the correct procedures when we do not have enough judges. First, reaching out to the State Assignor and asking for the judges that are needed. If we don’t have any available, we can run a competition with a minimum of 3 judges, one per scoresheet. If non-certified judges are used, that competition would not count toward the minimum number of competitions to qualify for States.