Who makes this decision?	Tournament Director
Who needs to be informed?	Score Master, Head Appraiser, Team Managers

In Destination Imagination, we like to think of all of the participants as winners. But, in reality, only a select few are designated as winners and invited to participate in the next level of competition.

In this task, you will determine how many teams or places at each challenge level will advance to the next level of competition and complete an Advancement Rule Table. This is primarily a research task, because this decision is made by the Tournament Director in accordance with the rules for Destination Imagination. However, it is important to you because the DI Scoring Program uses the advancement rules to designate winners on reports.

In general, the number of teams or places that advance is based on the number of teams competing in each challenge level. Typically, one team or place advances for every ten teams that compete. If 11 or more teams compete, then 2 teams advance. In this case, the number 11 is known as the team count boundary, the minimum number of teams that must compete to justify an additional advancing team.

First, a few important points about advancement rules:

• Advancement rules can be different for each age or grade level. For example, the advancement rules for the Elementary level might be different from the advancement rules for the University level.
• The team count boundary doesn’t have to be linear, that is, a series of multiples of each previous team count boundary. For example, you could advance two teams when the number of competing teams is at least 10, but then advance three teams when the number of competing teams reaches 15.
• Because Rising Stars participants do not compete or advance, the Rising Stars ‘level’ usually does not have advancement rules.
• The DI Scoring Program can be configured in the Tournament Information section to advance either the first N teams (plus any ties) or the first N places (including all ties) to the next level of competition.

Example:
Consider a situation in which the top two teams are tied for first place, and the next three teams are tied for second. If two places advance, that means five teams. If two teams advance, that’s only the two tied for first place. The DI standard (and the DI Scoring Program default) is that N teams advance, where N is determined at each regional or affiliate level.

Contact your Tournament Director and gather the information needed to complete the Advancement Rule Table below. Later, in the Set Advancement Rules task, you will enter the advancement rules in the table into the DI Scoring Program.

When the table is complete, return to the Planning Worksheet and check off the Determine Rules for Advancement task.

Advancement Rule Table

To complete this table, enter the number of competing teams that would result in the specified number of advancing teams. Enter this value as a range, such as 1 – 10. Then, copy the lower number in the range (the minimum) into the team count boundary column.

Remember, the team count boundary is the minimum number of competing teams necessary to justify an additional advancing team.

See an example of a competed Advancement Rule Table.

Grade Level	# Teams Advancing	# Teams Competing (range)	Team Count Boundary
Elementary	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
Middle	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
Secondary	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
University	1
	2
	3
	4
	5
DI Later™	1
	2
	3
	4
	5