Boys Jr. 3SSB will now utilize a hybrid schedule consisting of regional play and open qualifiers.
A team must now earn their way into nationals by either earning a bid through one of these avenues.
Programs are allowed to participate in both.
In addition to our 5 existing regions, Jr. 3SSB will now be adding the PNW/Mountain Region.
Jr. 3SSB will now be implementing a new point system to determine seeding for events, and who will earn a bid to nationals.
Majority of bids to jr. 3SSB nationals will be determined by our new point system.
In addition, this will help us improve seeding super regionals, open qualifiers and nationals.
Regions
West
PNW/Mountain
South
Midwest
Northeast
Southeast
Regional Series
Each region will consist of two mandatory regional qualifiers.
At each regional qualifier, each team will play (4) set games.
The top teams based on points will advance to the super regional, where the best from your region will compete against the best from another region.
Super regionals will be a tournament style event where automatic bids to nationals will be awarded to the top finishers (number of automatic bids vary based on the age group + level of play).
Regional point system
Regional Qualifier Win : +100
Super regional Win : +150
The champions of each division at the super regional will accumulate an addition 50 points for winning the entire tournament.
Each team must play in the same region throughout regional play (ex. You cannot play your first regional qualifier in the west region, then play your 2nd regional qualifier in mountain region.
Open Qualifiers
Each open qualifier is open to any team that would like to enter, including teams that play in the regional qualifiers.
Open qualifiers will be tournament style events where the finalist in the gold divisions will earn an automatic bid to jr. 3SSB nationals (1st and 2nd place finishers). The champion of each silver division will receive an automatic bid also.
Open Qualifier point system
Win : +50
The champion from each division will receive an additional +25 points.
Point system importance
Only 48 total automatic bids to Jr. 3SSB nationals will be given out to teams throughout the all age groups. This means that majority of jr. 3SSB nationals bids will be at-large bids.
At-large bids will be given to the remaining teams who have accumulated the most points throughout the year.
Teams who earn an automatic bid from regional play or open qualifiers are still encouraged to play in more events to improve their seeding for nationals.
