NOTE: These instructions are for the individual who will be in charge of registration for his or her high school. Contact our Registration Chair ([email protected]) to see if someone is already registering students from your high school before starting these procedures, or if you have any other questions or concerns about the registration process.
For instructions about how to register as a competitor, coach, or guest, visit our How to Register page.
Instructions/Tips for Registering a New Team:
Choose a Resgistrar: Each team should choose a Registrar. This can be any competitor on the team, the team coach, or an individual affiliated with the team (ex: a parent). The role of the Registrar is to ensure that team members are registering in a timely manner and that each member signed up for the correct competitions. This role requires an individual of maturity and responsibility - so choose your team’s Registrar accordingly.
Choose a Username: A part of the registration process is creating a MIST username. In order to create a username, each individual must have a valid, working, unique email address. Members of the same family cannot share email addresses and each individual MUST have their own email address.
Plan Transportation: If you plan your team early enough, you can even ask your school to provide bussing to the tournament. Since MIST is an academic high school event, you may be able to receive bussing. Ask your MSA sponsor and your school administration how to get busses for your MIST team.
Create Team Lettering (if applicable): Also, try to establish lettering criteria so that 1-5 place winners of MIST from your team and other members of your MSA can letter and receive letter jackets if your school has them. More information about Lettering
Review Rules and Eligibility: Before registering, carefully read our rules for creating your teams that apply to all private, public, and home schooled students. You should also review the age restrictions for this year. Be sure to also read the Rules and Restrictions section. This will give you information such as dress code, leaving the tournament early, venue rules…etc. All students must be familiar with these rules and follow them. Failure to follow tournament rules will result in disqualification.
Registration Instructions for Registrars:
For instructions about how to register as a competitor, coach, or guest, visit our How to Register page.
Instructions/Tips for Registering a New Team:
Choose a Resgistrar: Each team should choose a Registrar. This can be any competitor on the team, the team coach, or an individual affiliated with the team (ex: a parent). The role of the Registrar is to ensure that team members are registering in a timely manner and that each member signed up for the correct competitions. This role requires an individual of maturity and responsibility - so choose your team’s Registrar accordingly.
Choose a Username: A part of the registration process is creating a MIST username. In order to create a username, each individual must have a valid, working, unique email address. Members of the same family cannot share email addresses and each individual MUST have their own email address.
Plan Transportation: If you plan your team early enough, you can even ask your school to provide bussing to the tournament. Since MIST is an academic high school event, you may be able to receive bussing. Ask your MSA sponsor and your school administration how to get busses for your MIST team.
Create Team Lettering (if applicable): Also, try to establish lettering criteria so that 1-5 place winners of MIST from your team and other members of your MSA can letter and receive letter jackets if your school has them. More information about Lettering
Review Rules and Eligibility: Before registering, carefully read our rules for creating your teams that apply to all private, public, and home schooled students. You should also review the age restrictions for this year. Be sure to also read the Rules and Restrictions section. This will give you information such as dress code, leaving the tournament early, venue rules…etc. All students must be familiar with these rules and follow them. Failure to follow tournament rules will result in disqualification.
Registration Instructions for Registrars:
- Have your team’s coach sign the School Permission Letter, and then take it to your school’s principal/assistant principal for his/her approval for MIST and for lettering. More information about Lettering Criteria
- Your MIST team must be open to all who are interested in joining from your school, Muslim or otherwise.
- Your team should not include anyone from outside of your school.
- Advertise MIST throughout your MSA and try to get as many members from your school to join your MIST team.
- Allow each student to go through the Category Overview and individual rules for each competitive event in order to choose which events to compete in
- Rules can be printed off www.getmistified.com and made into packets for the students, or posted by the sign up sheet in your coach’s classroom.
- Make sure each student knows that they may sign up for only one competitive event from each of the five Categories. This means each student has the option of signing up for one Art competition, one Writing & Oratory competition, one Knowledge & Qur'an competition, one Bracket competition, and one Group Project competition.
- No more than two (2) students per school may sign up for each of the competitive events with the exception of the group competitions, MIST Bowl, Improv, and Basketball. You must keep track of this on the Team Registration Form to prevent confusion.
- In the case of more students wanting to compete in a competition, determine who will sign up for the competition through a mini-competition you host among interested students. This will give your group something exciting to do. Otherwise, students can decide among themselves who will register for that particular competition.
- Print out copies of the Signature Page for each student on your team. First, have each student sign their form. Then, collect the forms and have your team’s coach sign each of them. Give the forms back to the students so they can get their parent/guardian signatures. Remind students to give their coach’s contact information to their parents. After these signatures are complete, collect all forms and show them to your coach so that he/she can see the signatures and verify which students he/she will be supervising at MIST. These forms must then be mailed to your regional headquarters prior to the late registration deadline. Students risk disqualification if their signature page is not submitted.
- After each student knows which competitions(s) they will be competing in and have also completed their signature page, their information must be entered on the online registration application, Adderpit (starting from the region's opening registration date).
- Students may not under any circumstances change their mind once the team registration application has received a coach’s approval and is officially submitted online. If the student decides to go ahead and not participate in the competition they originally registered for, their team will receive a zero for that competition, which will affect the Team Average. Make sure students register for competitions that they will participate in.
- Determine a date when all team members should have signed up for their competitions and paid their registration fees online. Only once all team members have signed up and paid can the Registrar submit the team registration for a coach’s approval.
- Students will not be able to register after the late registration date. Online registration will become inactive. Please refer to your region’s online registration dates.
- A few weeks before the tournament, MIST will send each coach and registrar a Confirmation Letter that will confirm all the student’s registration information and the competitions they have registered for. If a mistake has been made, the competitor, Coach, or Registrar must contact MIST immediately via email.
- No excuses, such as “My coach registered me for this competition and I didn’t know about it”, “I didn’t register for this competition”, or any others will be accepted once the tournament has started. The reason we send out the confirmation letters is so you can confirm that you’ve registered for the competitions in the letter. If we don’t hear from you in regards to your registration after we’ve sent the confirmation letters, we will assume that you and your team have no mistakes to report.
