General Rules

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GENERAL RULES
Governing Contest and Firematic Events

1)    All participating Fire Companies must be members in good standing in the Southside Virginia Volunteer Firefighter's Association.

2)    A member of the Rules and Contest Committee will visit the Contest Field at least 2 days prior to the Annual Convention for the purpose of verifying field lay-out, equipment to be used, etc.

3)    Team Captains will provided with an ID badge to identify them at the Captains Meeting.  Captains Meetings during running of Contest will be held at center of field and not on sidelines.

4)     Each team will have one (1) false start on each event.  If a second false start occurs on any event , the event will be forfeited by that Fire Company.

5)    The only person that can register a complaint to the Rules and Contest Committee is the Team Captain.  If more than one team member enter a complaint, the team will be disqualified from that event. Teams will be given one warning prior to their disqualification. 

6)     Judges for the running of the Contest will be members of the Rules and Contest Committee.  In the event that there is an inadequate number of judges present to carry on the contest, the Chairman of the Rules and Contest Committee shall select those persons as he deems qualified from the teams that are present at the Annual Convention.

7)    Teams that participate in each contest, shall return the field and all associated equipment to the original condition after their run and prior to the next team running.  Failure to do so will result in that team being disqualified from that contest.