The Affiliates menu presents and manages information about DI affiliates.  As is explained below, an affiliate typically has

  • one or more events such as tournaments
  • these events are managed by people in the affiliate with specific roles
  • if these event are regional events, the occur within a region of the affiliate

The Affiliates=>view menu pick lists the events in the affiliate and the people within the affiliate hold specific roles.

Affiliates=>manage is a menu pick for a number of roles such as AD and RD to manage regions, events and roles within the affiliate. This page has a tabbed menu that supports managing regions, events, roles and some properties of the affiliate.

  • for more on the Regions tab  click here
  • for more on the Roles tab click here
  • for more on the Events tab click here
  • for more on affiliate properties pick the Settings tab (more here)

Tournament also rely on appraisers to judge the teams competing at the tournament.  The Affiliates=>view appraisers menu lists the appraisers that assisted at tournaments within the affiliate (more here)

For information about teams within the affiliate, see the Teams menu (more here).

For those new to DI organizational structure here is some more detail:

If an affiliate is large enough, it is often sub-divided into regions. Teams geographically within the region are assigned to the region. Most regions have a tournament where the teams in that region compete. The region is typically managed by a Regional Director (RD) who likely arranges the tournament. The region may also have Regional Challenge Masters (RCMs) that are experts in a specific challenge and assist in managing activities around that challenge in the region.

Teams that win at the regional level advance to the affiliate tournament. Affiliate Challenge Masters (ACMs) are also experts in a specific challenge. They often assist the recruiting and training the RCMs.

AD, RD, ACM, and RCM are all DI program roles. The AD has the ability to assign people with DI Accounts (ie the credentials to log into this site) to these roles within their affiliate and regions.  An RD has the ability to assign people to roles within their regions.

A tournament is an event. This website supports the AD setting the dates of such event for others to see. The AD can also create training events.