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Team Relay Competition
A note on the use of the StackMat® Competition Timer: In the Team Relay Competition, the StackMat® not only provides a standardized stacking surface, it also provides a “tool for measurement” to determine which team finishes each race first.
 
1. To exemplify good sportsmanship, before and after each match, both teams--win or lose--should acknowledge and honor each other by shaking hands or giving “high fives.”
 
2. A Relay Team may consist of four or five Stackers in the correct Age Division. A Stacker in a higher age division may not “play down” to a lower age division. A Stacker may only compete on one team per event.
 
3. Four Stackers on a team compete in “head-to-head” competition against another team. (Teams with five Stackers may substitute in a Stacker at their discretion between races.) A “match” consists of a series of “races.” A Relay match (no matter if it’s a 3-3-3,3-6-3, or Cycle) is made up of the best “2 out of 3 races.”
 
4. This is a Double Elimination Tournament. (A team must lose two “matches” before being eliminated.
 
5. On a standard (2 1/2 ft. x 6 ft.) folding table, each of the two teams sets up their cups in a "down stacked" position on the StackMat® on their half of the table. (A yellow piece of tape divides the table and represents the “plane”, which extends above and below the table that divides the two teams.) Each Stacker on the relay team must stack on the stacking surface of the StackMat®.
 

6. Relays

a) The Lead Stacker on each team starts at the table with both hands on the yellow touch pads of the StackMat®. The other Stackers on each team line up single file behind the starting line, 5 feet back from the edge of the table, and facing the back of their Lead Stacker. An orange cone at the starting line separates the two teams.

b) The starting command of the Judge is: “Ready, Get Set, GO!” On the word “GO,” the Lead Stacker from each team begins stacking. Once their sequence has been completed, the Lead Stacker returns to the starting line and tags the next Stacker in line who continues the race.

c) After each Stacker tags their teammate, they return to the end of the line.

d) A team has finished once the fourth, and final Stacker completes his or her stack and stops the StackMat® Competition Timer.

e) This Stacker is required to immediately return to the Back Court.
 
7. After each race, teams will switch sides and run the next race.
 
8. During the Team Relay Competition all Spectators and non-competing Stackers shall remain outside the Sport Stacking Court.
 
9. Warm ups are not permitted in the Team Relay
 
Relay Teams race head-to-head in competition.
   
Tips for Judges - Team Relay Competition
 
           
   

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