Sanctioned Requirements

2025 General Requirements (all tiers)

• Affiliate must not have any overdue WATL membership dues

• Each division and discipline hosted must have at least 8 throwers or teams to be considered for Circuit Points in that division/discipline

  • • Locals have a reduced requirement for Duals of 6 teams to be considered for Circuit Points.

• Must collect Player and Team IDs for all disciplines and organize rosters to WATL's standards

• Must review WATL Tournament Guide

• Must adhere to WATL standards and guidelines of seeding, brackets, and finals formats

  • • Rosters must be submitted to WATL for seeding 48 hours before the tournament starts. Failure to submit rosters by the requested date/time could result in an unseeded bracket and the de-sanctioning of your event.

    • Be sure that rosters are complete and player names matching the app as closely as possible no later than the Thursday @3pm ET before your tournament

• Circuit points are awarded in all disciplines based on the number of participants in that discipline (not the Tier level of the tournament)

• Must adhere to all Prize Pool stipulations

• Must send required feedback form to roster no later than 2 weeks after completion of the event

To be considered for a National next year, tournament hosts must meet the following requirements in the current year:

• Host a Local or larger tournament

• Send the required feedback form to their roster after the completion of the event

  • • Feedback from throwers is considered in the final decision

• Display good organizational skills (rosters and information management)

• Be communicative with the WATL team and throwers

• Must be reasonably, in WATLs’ judgment, capable of fulfilling the commitments submitted in their bids

Nationals & Regionals

• Must host: Amateur Hatchet, Open Hatchet, Big Axe, and Duals

• Cannot cap registrations higher than the minimum agreed upon between the tournament host and WATL.

• Must have 1 Certified Judge per lane in use. 

  • • EG) A facility running 10 lanes for the tournament must have at least 10 Certified Judges staffed for the event

• Prize pool minimum:

  • • NATIONAL: 50% of entry fees + added cash (agreed upon between the tournament host and WATL)

    • REGIONAL: 50% of entry fees + $1,000

• Regionals must submit request to WATL within 8 weeks of the start date for approval

• To be eligible to host, must have met the following requirements in 2024:

  • • Hosted a Tier 3 (Local) or larger event

    • Sent the required feedback form to roster after the completion of event

    • Displayed good organizational skills (rosters and information management)

    • Communicative with the WATL team and throwers

    • Produced a strong bid, including an added cash component to the prize pools

    • Must be reasonably, in WATLs’ judgment, capable of fulfilling the commitments submitted in the bid

Locals

• Hatchet may be thrown under one Open Division (played on Amateur rules) or split into 2 divisions (Open and Amateur)

  • • If hosting one Division, this is the only time when the Open division may be played under the Amateur ruleset and the only time a Pro thrower can compete under that ruleset.

    • If hosting one Hatchet division, must cap registrations at 48 throwers.

• If hosting Hatchet Duals, only 6 teams are required to be considered for Circuit Points.

• Prize pool payout is a minimum of 50% of entry fees, no added cash is required.