1. Acknowledge regional and national events that are producing pole athletes in all categories. The level of event recognition is based on the level of fairness, level of judging quality, standards in a scoring system and the ethics of the competition as a whole. The IPSF seeks to improve and standardise the level of competitions across the world to improve professionalism and safety.

2. Identify athletes that may participate in the IPSF WPSC. This is achieved by athletes placing in an elite category of an ‘endorsed’ national competition. This is also done through our National Federations who will have fully accredited and endorsed IPSF championships.

Competition accreditation is now open for the competitive year 2014/15. Only endorsed competitions that use full IPSF criteria and judges will be accepted. Preference will be given to federations wishing to join the IPSF. For more information please email info@polesports.org