{"id":2305,"date":"2019-01-11T19:41:36","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T19:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/?p=2305"},"modified":"2021-12-07T14:16:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T19:16:36","slug":"invitational-competitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/invitational-competitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Invitational Competitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:14pt\"><span style=\"color:black; text-decoration:underline\"><strong>Invitational Competitions<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial; font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"color:black\"><br \/>Many various-sized invitational competitions happen throughout the year in a variety of sports. Invitationals vary from a couple of communities participating, to international in scope. Hosts are expected to apply the same standards of competition as with Conference competitions. Please see <\/span>the Hosting a Competition section of this resource<span style=\"color:black\"> for more information.<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Hosted anywhere in province<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Hosted by a registered coach \/ volunteer of SOO<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Can be one sport or several sports hosted at once<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Can consist of two teams \/ clubs or several clubs<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Competition host will send general invites out. \u00a0Invites can be extended outside their districts<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Competition guidelines can vary depending on facility, time allotment, ability level of competitors, etc. <\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Formal divisioning \/ seeding may or may not be used<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Sport rules may be adapted slightly, however rules regarding safety of athletes and coaches cannot be altered. As well, sport rules cannot be altered to provide an unfair advantage to an athlete or team. When sport rules are altered, specific variations must be outlined in the tournament format. Sport rule changes must be approved by SOO<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">Registration fees not to exceed $25 per athlete, or $40 per golfer<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:black; font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt\">May or may not include meals, ceremonies, etc.<\/span><span style=\"font-size:10pt\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invitational Competitions Many various-sized invitational competitions happen throughout the year in a variety of sports. Invitationals vary from a couple of communities participating, to international in scope. Hosts are expected to apply the same standards of competition as with Conference competitions. Please see the Hosting a Competition section of this resource for more information. \u00a0 Hosted anywhere in province Hosted &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/invitational-competitions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-post-no-container.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-2305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competition","tag-types-of-competition","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www1.specialolympicsontario.com\/resources\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}