Featuring the best teams from throughout the year, the Championship Playoffs is a double-elimination event for the NEWA Championship.

 To qualify for the playoffs, a team must finish in the top 8 of any NEWA Tournament during the year*.

 Teams finishing in the top 8 qualify for the playoffs and receive points equal to those awarded to them for rankings for that particular event.  If a team finishes in the top 8 more than once, the points are added to their previous total. These points are used at the end of the season to determine each team’s playoff seeding. This produces seedings based on both the tournament difficulty and the performance of each team. (*Youth Series excluded)

 Eligibility Restrictions

 1) Team playoff rosters may only consist of players who were on the roster of the team during the tournament in which the team qualified.  Note: Team rosters cannot be changed once tournament play begins. 

 2) In the case where a player is unable to play in the playoffs due to injury or other conflict, the team must play with only the remaining players on the roster.  No substitutions are allowed.

 3) Players may only play for one team if they are on the roster of more than one qualifying team.

 4) Teams that qualify more than once may play with any of the players on their qualifying rosters during the year, up to a maximum of 5 total players.