Texas Senior Games

NSGA Rules:

The Texas Senior games Association (TSGA) uses the rules published by the National Senior Games Association (NSGA) for the 2013 Summer National
Senior Games for all events offered at the national senior games. Any exceptions are noted below. The TSGA publishes rules for sports and events, not offered at the national senior games. The NSGA rules for the 2013 Summer National Senior Games may be found at the NSGA website after January 2012.,
www.NSGA.com . The NSGA distinguishes between sports and events in the following manner: Track is a sport, 100 meter dash and 400 meter run are events; Tennis is a sport, singles, doubles and mixed doubles are events.

Qualifying:

Athletes are not required to qualify to enter the 2012 Texas State Senior Games. Anyone, age 50 or above as of 31 December 2012, may register for the 2012 Texas Senior Games.

Number of Events an Individual may Enter:

The number of events limitation as described in the 2013 NSGA Rules does not apply for the 2012 Texas Senior Games. An individual may enter as many events as disired consistent with the games schedule. Sports competition will not be delayed in order to allow a competitor to complete competition in another sport.

Awarding Duplicate Medals

The Texas local games policies on awarding of medals to both local and out-of-state participants vary. Contact the director of the local game to get more information on the awarding of medals at that
specific local game. At the Texas State Senior Games out-of-state participants will be awarded medals appropriate to the place in which they finish. Should an out-of-state resident win a medal a similar medal will be awarded to a Texas participant. After actual finishing places are determined, if out-of-state participant(s) wins medal(s) then the Texas  participants will be moved up an appropriate number of places so that medals are awarded to the top finishing Texans. These medals are in addition to
those awarded to the out-of-state finishers. Out-of-state participants will not be advanced should Texans finish in medal positions. This rule is consistent with the NSGA rule on qualifying out-of-state and local state athletes for the national games.

Teams:

Teams at the Texas State Senior Games must comply with the roster limits and number of out-of-state players limits as defined in the NSGA
rules.

Doubles Partners:

Doubles teams consisting of one Texas resident and one Non-Texas resident will be considers as an out-of-state team for qualifying down purposes. In national games qualifying years this mixed residency team can qualify by winning a qualifying place as defined in the NSGA rules but will not displace a Texas residency team. A Texas team will also
qualify.

NSGA Rules for the 2011 Summer National Senior Games significantly changed the doubles substitution rules. Partners who qualified together no longer have to play together at the next higher level. The 
revised rule states that an athlete qualified for a doubles event in a sport who loses his/her partner may recruit a new partner, so long as that
individual is qualified in that same sport. .


After registering for the Texas State games partner changes must be completed no later than the registration cut-off date. There will be no
“on the spot” partner substitutions at the state games.