Rules

GENERAL

Each school team or individual student must be registered under a coach, and that coach must be a teacher, administrator, parent, or community leader. Coaches will be responsible for their teams throughout the entire tournament. If you are having trouble finding a suitable coach, please email mist.texas@gmail.com.

All coaches and students must be present during all the 3 days. If students need to leave, they must let their coach know, and the coach must let the MIST organizers know.

Students not in competitions must always be in a program or at the assigned room on the schedule, no loitering in the halls will be permitted.

All Basketball players must be present on the days of MIST and must show up to their competitions. If students who played basketball do not show up to MIST, this calls for immediate disqualification from the basketball tournament.

REGISTRATION

Whether or not a high school currently has an MSA, the students must form/join the MIST team from their own high school. All students from a school must register together as one team. No schools may join together as one MIST team.

If the MSA as a whole chooses not to participate in the tournament, the few members who would like to join MIST can still represent their high school.

If the high school does not have an MSA, try your best to form an Islamic educational organization open to students/faculty of any religion, gender, or national origin in your high schoo.

If you are the only Muslim in your school or if you are home-schooled, please contact mist.texas@gmail.com so we may facilitate you.

DRESS CODE

The following dress code will be required at MIST:

- Students cannot wear clothes that contain language or symbols that demean an identifiable person or group or otherwise infringe on the rights of others.

- Students should wear business casual attire for all their interviews with the judges. Jeans are not allowed.

-Students should not wear short-sleeve shirts, shorts, and/or skirts above the ankle

- Students should not wear clothes that are see through, tight, or suggestive in any way. Shirts should be long enough to cover the stomach and back side. Students should not wear low rise pants that show any skin.

-Sisters must cover their bodies with Islamic attire. That includes wearing Hijab, loose clothing, and modestly covering the body.

Dress code violators will be penalized.

BEHAVIOR

All students must act in a professional, mature and responsible manner.

Any fights, whether physical or verbal are absolutely not permitted.

MIST wants to promote an appropriate Islamic environment so immodest behavior, foul language, and unnecessary social intermingling between opposite genders will not be permitted.

This tournament is to build leaders and responsible young adults, so all forms of bad behavior will have repercussions. Those offenses that are severe will be sent to the appropriate authorities.

AWARDS CEREMONY

Unruly and out of hand yelling or screaming will not be permitted. Remember the theme.. modesty

Schools are permitted to bring in shakers or daffs to cheer on their team. No blow horns or other loud noise makers will be permitted.

We encourage all students to say the Takbeer – AllahuAkbar when their schools win an achievement, as all of our efforts would be nothing without the help and greatness of Allah!