2025 adidas® Windy City Registration
To be fair to all teams this is a 1st come, 1st served national qualifying event and until all three parts of the criteria are completed you will not be officially entered and accepted in this event. Closing date for the tournament will be March 28th, 2025/or until a division fills. We will not be accepting ANY late registrations.
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Your team must be registered in AES
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Great Lakes Region has received your payment
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You have a hotel confirmation, through MCI, our housing company for each team entered (10 room night minimum per team necessary to meet Reserve & Serve criteria). There is an exception of this policy for local teams, within the 50 mile allowed radius.
You will receive an email confirmation when your team is accepted. If all of the criteria has been met but you have not received a confirmation email of acceptance from AES CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY at [email protected] or call (630) 986-9000.
Entry Fee by Division
11s-17s: $895.00 (Three-day Tournament)
Please make all checks payable to “Great Lakes Region Volleyball.”
All entry forms and entry fees should be sent to:
Great Lakes Region
745 McClintock Drive, Suite 314
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Refund Policy
Prior to a team being accepted.
A full refund is issued
Drop out after being accepted and BEFORE the March 28th or your division fills, 2025 deadline.
$700.00 Refund of Entry
Drop out after being accepted and AFTER the March 28th, 2025 deadline, or until a division fills.
No Refund
All entry fees are nontransferable which means if you drop a team and insert another; the entry fee for the first team cannot be used for the second team. Each entry fee must include a roster for each team which can be filled in all online at Advanced Event Systems.
Rosters
All rosters for the Windy City National Qualifier must be submitted online in AES by Wednesday, April 16th, 2025 at 5:00pm CST. Teams must have full rosters listed on AES along with jersey #’s, and USAV #’s. Any individual on the bench during match play must be a valid rostered participant.
Acceptance Into Tournament
Acceptance Into Tournament
The adidas@ Windy City National Qualifier will accept teams who have met all entry requirements until space is filled, or the deadline date.
Entry requirements include: online registration in AES, payment received, and the Reserve and Serve housing requirement has been met.
Team Acceptance Criteria:
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Postmark or electronic date of complete entry requirements
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Strength
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Number of teams per club per division, with a maximum of two teams per club, per division
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Entries from the host state where the event is conducted
After the deadline date (March 28th, 2025) or until a Division Fills, teams may be accepted at the discretion of the Event Director.
If a division is filled to capacity by the time a team completes the entry process, teams denied entry into the Open Division will be offered the opportunity to move into a National, USA or American division, if space is available. Teams denied entry in a National, USA, or American division the opportunity to move into an Open Division if space is available.
Under no circumstance is a team that is denied entry into any division guaranteed a berth in any other division.
Registration status will be maintained and updated in AES. Please consult AES before contacting Great Lakes about your team’s entry. Total number of teams is limited to 1120 but allocations of teams per division may change depending on the number of entries received for all ages and all divisions.
Below are the number of teams we can accommodate in each qualifier division and the number of bids available for that number of teams. The adidas@ Windy City National Qualifier reserves the right, in our sole discretion, to adjust the size of a division depending on the number of applications received after the deadline date. Adjustments COULD affect the number of bids available in a division. Depending on the sizes of the 12 National and 12 American divisions, the divisions may be combined but both a National bid and an American bid could still be offered. (See the Qualifier Manual for particulars.) USA Volleyball may award an additional bid to some USA divisions of some qualifiers.
Division |
Minimum # Teams |
Maximum # of Teams |
Expected Bids |
17 Open |
8 |
32 |
3 |
17 USA |
8 |
40 |
3 |
17 Liberty |
8 |
48 |
2 |
17 American |
8 |
96 |
1 |
16 Open |
8 |
32 |
3 |
16 USA |
8 |
48 |
3 |
16 Liberty |
8 |
48 |
2 |
16 American |
8 |
112 |
1 |
15 Open |
8 |
32 |
3 |
15 USA |
8 |
44 |
3 |
15 Liberty |
8 |
56 |
2 |
15 American |
8 |
112 |
1 |
14 Open |
8 |
24 |
3 |
14 USA |
8 |
40 |
3 |
14 Liberty |
8 |
40 |
2 |
14 American |
8 |
80 |
1 |
13 Open |
8 |
20 |
2 |
13 USA |
8 |
24 |
2 |
13 Liberty |
8 |
32 |
2 |
13 American |
8 |
64 |
1 |
12 National |
8 |
16 |
1 |
12 USA |
8 |
16 |
2 |
12 American |
8 |
40 |
1 |
11 National |
8 |
16 |
1 |