1. Any team participating in at least one USSSA tournament, is required to enter its roster online. A hardcopy must be sent to the Ohio State Director with World Series entry form.
2. To begin entering the players onto the roster, login to the ISTS system at www.usssa.com using your team's ID and password. Then choose "Roster Adds and Updates", agree to the affidavit on the following page, and then begin adding players.
3. At no time may a player be on the rosters of 2 different teams at the same time.
4. Once the team roster has been completely entered online, click on "Printable Roster" and print a copy. It needs to be signed by all the players and parents, regardless of the age packet. Teams should keep a signed copy for themselves and send the one with the original signatures to the Ohio State Director.
5. Birth certificates do not need to be filed with the Ohio State Director, but legible copies must be kept with the team at all times.
6. College players may play on any 18U team. 18U teams will then be classified as "A", "B", or "C" with college players on the team.
7. Throughout this document the term "Add" refers to adding a player to a team's roster who has not yet signed another USSSA roster. The term "Pickup" refers to adding a player that has currently signed another USSSA roster. " Release" refers to a player being removed from a signed USSSA roster in order to join another team.
8. All roster changes must be approved through the Ohio State Director. Individual tournament directors do not have the authority to approve any roster changes unless specifically given such authority by the Ohio State Director.
9. A team may not add or pickup any players on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday during a weekend in which the team is participating, even if no games are scheduled for Friday.
10. A team that has not yet qualified for a World Series (WS) berth may add un-rostered players freely to their roster. To do so, the manager should add the player to the online roster just as done with the original players. Once the player has been added, the manager prints off the roster again, but this time only gets the added player and her parent to sign it, leaving spaces for all other player and parent signatures blank. The manager then sends the roster with just the added signatures and it gets attached in the office to that team's original roster. this assumes the player that's being added is not currently on another team's roster.
11. If an unqualified team wishes to pick up a player currently on the roster of another team, the team from which the player is being picked up must also be unqualified.
12. Once a team qualifies for a World Series, its roster becomes "frozen". That team then becomes classified under the provisions listed in the Classifications section below, even if the team chooses not to accept the berth. Once frozen, however, teams may add or pickup up to two additional players, under the following conditions:
a. A team that is classified "A" may add or pick up any player.
- Prior to the State Tournament, a team that is classified "B" may add or pick up any
player that was on an "A" team at the time the "A" team's classification was
established.
- After the State Tournament, a team that is classified "B" may pickup player other
than a player that was on an "A" team at the time the "A" team's classification was
established, provided that player has played in at least one USSSA sanctioned event.
- "Frozen" teams may delete as many players from their roster as they wish, but they
still only allowed to add or pickup two players prior to the WS. In other words, teams
may not drop additional players in order to add or pick up more than two.
13. Any conflicts resulting from player/manager relationships involving releases will be resolved by the Ohio State Director.