Any teams interested in competing MUST have a club activated with NASEF, meeting all club and student requirements below. 

Additionally, clubs will be able to opt-in for coaching, powered by Connected Camps. 

Please note: this tournament will be conducted via PC only.

Ready to make the jump? Visit our Getting Started page and start your Activation process!

NASEF's mission is to provide resources, including our season long tournaments, to ALL students at NO COST!

For this tournament, we are providing:

• Game Licenses
• Coaching
• Tournament Management
• Live Final Event
• IT Support
• Streaming

...All completely free, at no cost to students, families, schools and community-based organizations.

All high schools and community-based organizations located in North America, including the United States, including its territories, Mexico and Canada are eligible to sign-up to become a “Club” within the North America Scholastic Esports Federation (NASEF).

How Do We Define High School or Community-Based Organization?

High Schools

United States

High schools serving grades 9-12 private, public, charter, college-preparatory, homeschool, and virtual recognized by their State Board of Education.

U.S. Territories

• American Samoa:  High schools serving grades 9-12 can be private, public, charter, college-preparatory, homeschool, and virtual recognized by their Board of Education.
• Guam:  High schools serving grades 9-12 private, public, charter, college-preparatory, homeschool, and virtual recognized by their Board of Education.
• Northern Mariana Islands:  High schools serving grades 9-12 private, public, charter, college-preparatory, homeschool, and virtual recognized by their Board of Education.
• Puerto Rico:  Upper Secondary School serving grades 10-12. They can be private, public, charter, college-preparatory, homeschool, and virtual recognized by their Board of Education.
• United States Virgin Islands:  High schools serving grades 9-12 private, public, charter, college-preparatory, homeschool, and virtual recognized by their Board of Education.

Canada

High schools serving grades 9-12. They can be public, private, at-home education, English or French schools recognized by their province.

Mexico

Preparatoria (High School or Preparatory School) serving grades 10-12.  They can be public, private, at-home education, international schools recognized by the Secretaría de Educación Pública (SEP), or by Mexico’s states, through various state departments of education.

Community-Based Organizations

**NOTE** To be recognized as a Community-Based Organization in the NASEF Club Dashboard, you must upload your organization's 501(c)(3) documentation.

United States and the U.S. Territories

According to 20 U.S.C.A § 7801(6), the term “community-based organization” means “a public or private nonprofit organization of demonstrated effectiveness that:

1. is representative of a community or significant segments of a community; and
2. provides educational or related services to individuals in the community.”  

Examples of community-based organizations may include but are not limited to:

• Public libraries
• Youth development programs (Girl Scouts, YMCA, Boys & Girls Clubs, 4-H, etc.)
• Faith-based organizations (churches, synagogues, etc.)
• STEM rich institutions (museums, planetariums, etc.)
• Associations (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Community Nonprofit Associations, etc.)

Public and private nonprofit organizations are subject to section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. (26 U.S.C.A. § 501(C)(3).)

Community-Based Organizations serving students in grades 9-12 are eligible to participate.

Canada

According to Government of Canada, registered charities are charitable organizations, public foundations, or private foundations that are created and resident in Canada. In addition, non-profit organizations are associations, clubs, or societies that are not charities and are organized and operated exclusively for social welfare, civic improvement, pleasure, recreation, or any other purpose except profit.

Both registered charities and non-profit organizations are eligible to participate.

Mexico

The following forms of non-governmental, not-for-profit organizations in Mexico are eligible to participate:

• The civil association (AC), established pursuant to state civil codes; and
• The civil society (SC), established pursuant to state civil codes.

Format

This year, we're looking to split teams into regional brackets. This way, teams only play other teams in the same time zone. We're hoping this alleviates some of the scheduling burdens some teams encountered last year.

The regular season for both Scholastic and Play-In tournaments will be in a swiss format. This way teams can still play without getting eliminated immediately.

Playoffs for both season will be conducted in a Single-Elimination style bracket. For our Scholastic tournament, we'll be utilizing the Towers of Doom format we used for Fall 2018.

Default Match Times

The default match time for the Scholastic and Play-In tournament is Wednesday, 3:30 PM.

This may change during Playoffs to Thursday, 3:30 PM.

Eligibility Requirements for Club Participation and Competition:

All students participating in the North America Scholastic Esports Federation (NASEF) must meet the minimum eligibility requirements for club participation regardless of where the Club is located (school or community-based organization):

• NASEF participation is open to high school students.
• The high school student must enroll in the NASEF Club at a high school or community-based organization.
• The high school student is currently enrolled in at least 20 semester units of work at a high school as defined in the Club Eligibility guidelines.
• The high school student maintained satisfactory citizenship (no N or U) during previous grading period at a high school or is good standing at the community-based organization.
• The high school student must have earned a grade point average of 2.0 or better in all subjects during the previous grading period preceding his/her participation.

Each club can field up to two teams for both tournaments.

We're also reducing our maximum roster size from last year -- Now, you can only have up to 9 total players on a team (meaning only 3 substitutes are allowed!).

NASEF Code of Conduct - It's helpful to start the school year by introducing ground rules!

All NASEF activities, including main season tournaments, require that all participants abide by our Code of Conduct. We strive to create an environment of safety, inclusivity and fun!

Teams (and by teams, we mean the same students on those teams as well) can only join one of the tournaments!

We encourage teams to play nice and play fair.

For the list of basic requirements please refer to this link. Clubs that complete the activation process will have access to our toolkit site with additional supporting documents. 

In an effort to be more inclusive to our online school and home school communities, we are permitting teams to play from home as long as they complete and submit our online waiver and wait for NASEF approval.

The waiver must be completed before each tournament's competitive matches begin. A link to the waiver can be found on the Club Dashboard, accessible by the General Manager of a NASEF Club.

Click here for the Official Tournament Rules for the Overwatch High School Scholastic Tournament. 

Click here for the Official Tournament Rules for the Overwatch High School Community Play-In Tournament.