US National Handgun Team World Shoot Team Selection Policy

USPSA shall use the following method exclusively to select the USPSA sponsored team members of 2011 World Shoot National teams:

  1. This policy shall be effective July 1, 2009.

  2. This policy shall be applied to USPSA sponsored National Handgun Teams and shall apply to all divisions and/or categories.

  3. Only the USPSA Open, Standard, Production, Open lady and Open Junior teams will be selected with this policy.

  4. Nothing in this policy guarantees that USPSA shall sponsor teams at any specific level or amount.

  5. National Handgun Team members shall be selected through accumulation of points.

  6. Points shall be the percentage of match placement in that division in any eligible event. By way of example, if a member shoots 100.000%, that member will be deemed to have 100 points. If a member shoots 87.098%, that member will be deemed to have 87.098 points. If a member places first in category with 80.098 %, that member will have 80.098 points.

  7. Division and/or category points may only be earned in the division and/or category shot at eligible matches. (Example: Production division points are only earned from shooting Production division at an eligible USPSA Handgun National Championship or US IPSC National Championship match).

  8. Division team selection will use results shot only in that division. Standard team selection will use only Limited or Standard division results. Open team selections will use only Open division results. Production team selection will use only Production division results.

  9. Category team selection will use only Open division results.

    1. For the purposes of this selection policy, "Junior" Category is intended to comply with the IPSC definition. Currently, this is defined as "Competitors who are under the age of 21 on the first day of the 2011 IPSC World Shoot".

    2. In order to minimize any possibility of inadvertent database oversight, competitors in contention for any potential Category team are solely responsible to identify themselves to the USPSA Director of National Range Officer Institute/Team Manager prior to the start of the 2009 Open Nationals match. Failure of the competitor to identify himself/herself as such may result in being excluded from team selection.

  10. Points shall be earned in the following manner:

    1. The points from the best three of the following four qualification matches will be added together.

      2. 1. 2009 USPSA National Championship

      2. 2009 US IPSC National Championship

      3. 2010 USPSA National Championship

      4. 2010 US IPSC National Championship

  11. A member may shoot as many qualification matches as they desire, but only the three matches with the highest point total shall count.
    1. Under this policy, in order to earn all available points, members must shoot a minimum of three matches, but nothing in this policy shall limit the minimum or maximum number of matches which a member elects to shoot.

  12. 2011 World Shoot team slots will be offered to:

    1. The highest ranked competitor based on qualification points. Selection will continue in descending qualification order until three team positions have been formally accepted.

    2. The fourth team position will be appointed by the USPSA Director of National Range Officer Institute/Team Manager.

  13. Any ties in qualification point positions affecting Items 12a will be broken, if necessary, using the results of qualification match(es) in which the tied competitors each finished the match(es) with a positive score. The results of the most recent such match will be used. If necessary, results from the next most recent such match(es) will be used until the tie(s) is/are sufficiently resolved.

  14. Should any team position become vacant at a point in time where the application of the provisions of Section 12 and 13 is no longer functional or feasible, the USPSA Director of National Range Officer Institute/Team Manager shall have the authority to name a suitable, available, and willing competitor to fill that position. Following the 2011 World Shoot, the Board of Directors shall reexamine this policy for potential use for the following World Shoot. The BOD may, at its discretion, continue, amend, or redefine this policy as it sees fit.