Teams

The Short Story: It’s all about teamwork! NCAC 2011 is featuring exciting ways to put your team over the top in support of the cause:

Become an NCAC 2012 Challenge Leader! Form a “Challenge Team” of 10 or more new NCACers, help at least 10 of them each raise a minimum of $1500, and then ride in the 2012 NCAC without having to meet your own fundraising minimum!

Join a Fundraising or Challenge Team, and compete with other NCAC teams for recognition (if not world-wide fame) as the Top Fundraising Team.

The following rules and procedures apply:

Challenge Leaders/Challenge Teams

  1. Challenge Leaders register for NCAC 2012 under their own special category and form a Fundraising Team at the same time.
  2. The Challenge Leader motivates at least 10 new NCAC participants (either cyclists or crew) to register and join the Challenge Team. Challenge Team members must join the team when they register for the NCAC. ‘New NCAC participant’ means a person who has never participated in a previous NCAC as a Cyclist or Crew Member. Once registered, Challenge Team members may not withdraw or be removed from the team. Likewise, new NCACers cannot join a Challenge Team if they originally registered individually (i.e. not as a Team Member).
  3. Only Cyclists may register as Challenge Leaders, but both Cyclists and Crew may join a Challenge team. All members of the team are subject to the same $1500 minimum fundraising requirement regardless of whether they register as Cyclists or Crew, or choose not to participate in the event at all.
  4. The Challenge Leader mentors, advises and encourages their Challenge Team members as they work their way to a $1500 fundraising minimum. This includes planning and organizing Team fundraising events. See the NCAC website for ideas.
  5. General team donations can be posted to a team but will not apply to individual teammembers’ fundraising minimums; therefore all team members should work to meet their individual $1500 minimum before seeking team donations. A general team donation cannot be applied to individual team members’ fundraising totals after it has posted. Any donations intended to be applied to individual members’ totals must be allocated to those individuals PRIOR to submitting them to the NCAC. Once funds are posted to one team member’s account, they cannot be transferred to another teammate’s account.
  6. Challenge Teams may also compete with other teams for recognition as Top Fundraising Team. [See Team-wide Competition rules below.]
  7. If the individual fundraising levels of at least 10 members of a Challenge Team are at or above the $1500 level by NCAC Registration on May 16, 2012, including donations brought to Registration, the Challenge Leader will be allowed to participate in the NCAC without having to meet the $1500 individual fundraising minimum.
  8. HOWEVER, if less than 10 members of a Challenge Team are at the $1500 fundraising minimum by May 16th, the Challenge Leader’s $1500 individual fundraising requirement will not be waived and she or he will be held to the same individual fundraising requirements as regular Cyclists.
  9. Team members not at the $1500 minimum by May 16th will be subject to the same fundraising requirements as regular Cyclists.
  10. BONUS: The first Challenge Team with 10 or more members at the $1500 minimum will receive 11 free NCAC 2016 Limited Edition jerseys – a more than $700 value!

Fundraising Teams

  1. Anyone may form and/or join a Fundraising Team. Cyclists and Crew members must meet the standard $1500 and $250 fundraising minimums, respectively.
  2. In order to be eligible to compete for the Top Fundraising Team title, each member of the team must meet his/her fundraising minimum.
  3. When each team member has met the fundraising minimum, the team is eligible to compete and, if desired, can solicit and receive general team donations toward its overall team total; however, general donations cannot be applied to individual fundraising totals (see #5, above).
  4. To determine the winning team, the team’s overall total will be calculated on a “pro-rata” basis – team total divided by number of team members.
  5. The NCAC Board and Organizing Committee is working hard to come up with exciting prizes for the Top Fundraising Team, and we’ll keep y’all updated when we know what they are.

[And finally, the finer fine print:]

There are no exceptions to these rules. Any occurrence not addressed in the above rules will be decided by the NCAC Board of Directors, or by members of the NCAC Organizing Committee as designated by the Board. The NCAC Board reserves the right to amend these rules, supplement them, or delete them, or to terminate the Challenge Leader program at any time, if the Board determines such action necessary to serve the charitable purposes and interests of NorCal AIDS Cycle and its beneficiaries.

Questions? Contact Emily at emily2fish@gmail.com or (530) 902-3295.