Magnolia District Qualifier

for the 2021 National Tournament

Procedures: Auditing Results

At the district tournament, it is required that all ranks/results are made available to a coach of every participating school after each round. This gives coaches the opportunity to verify results and help the tab staff catch any errors. 

For the online Magnolia District tournaments in 2021, this requirement will be met by posting results on tabroom.com for coaches to check after each round. Up/Down lists will also be posted publicly on tabroom.com.

From page 92 of the Unified Manual (emphases added):

District Tournament Audit Procedures  

The required method of tabulating the district tournament is to use the approved tournament software on a computer.  

At the completion of each round, the District Committee will produce an audit sheet. That sheet will be compared to the ballots for each round to determine that the ballots have been accurately tabulated. If mistakes have been made, the results will be evaluated and corrected.  

Once events are tabulated, the District Committee must audit or check the results of rounds in two ways: 

1.  The audit will be conducted by an Audit Committee appointed by the District Committee. 

2.  Ballots and the audit sheet will be made public so that head coaches or their designees may take responsibility for the audit.  

District Committees are strongly encouraged to make the tabulation process as transparent as possible.  

Before the tournament, one coach per school in attendance should be designated to receive ballots and audit sheets that are made available at the conclusion of each round audit. Online ballots, if used, should be published to coaches after each round audit. If a district is not auditing results and/or providing the audit to a coach representative, the coach representative should file a protest to the Committee, citing this procedural violation. If a protest is filed, the District Committee is required to contact the tournament ombudsperson for a ruling.  If coaches believe errors in tabulation have occurred, they must first address the issue with the District Committee in a timely fashion. If the tournament is still in progress, the protest should be lodged within one round of the audit being available to coaches.   

The audit for the final round results must be made available before the awards assembly. No protests regarding tabulation will be permitted after the awards assembly.     

The national qualifiers determined by the national office will be official. If the District Committee erroneously identifies and announces that a student has qualified for the National Tournament, that student will not keep that qualification spot for the National Tournament.