Help Center

Junior Series Membership

Coach Membership

All Coaches need both IFSA and Regional memberships. Regional Memberships are free.

For inquiries or assistance regarding regional memberships, questions about local freeride teams, or any regional Junior 2* event or Qualifier 1* or 2* events, kindly contact your friendly Regional Series Director, as they oversee all events within their region. Please note that IFSA exclusively handles the management of Junior 3* events and Qualifier 3* and 4* events.

LiveHeats provides registered users with an event-specific athlete dashboard, allowing them to easily check their registration status, view competitors and their seedings, and cancel their entry into an event or division. Please refer to this tutorial on how to view your Athlete Dashboard

Junior Series

During registration for any Junior Series event, everyone will have 72 hours to register, and all athletes will be immediately put on the waitlist.

Review the corresponding event registration guides for step by step instructions:

Junior Series: U12 Event Registration Guide (English | Español | Francés)

Junior Series: 1-2* Event Registration Guide(English | Español | Francés)

Junior Series: 3* Event Registration Guide(English | Español | Francés)

Qualifier Series

All Qualifier Series athletes will be immediately put on a waitlist when registering. The registration windows for all Qualifier Series close three weeks prior to the event date.

Qualifier Series: Event Registration Guide (English | Español | Francés)

Coach, Judge, and TD Event Registration

All Coaches, Judges, and TDs must register for all events they plan to attend.

Coaches Dashboard

Judging Dashboard

TD Dashboard

Encountering difficulties during the registration process? 

If an event does not appear to be opening at its listed time or date, please try clearing your cache. Some members have reported they did not see the registration updates we have pushed to the website because the page had been cached and they were not seeing the latest details. You can also check IFSA and Regional social media or reach out to your local Regional Series Director.

The primary issues reported include junior athletes not possessing both an IFSA and a Regional Membership (refer to the membership tab above for details)

Attempting to register for a second event with a one-time event membership. One-time IFSA and Regional memberships are required only if the athlete is participating in a single event throughout the season. If you are a Full Series member aiming to compete in another IFSA region, you do not need a one-time IFSA or Regional membership.

Incorrect birthdate – navigate to your profile, select athlete, and verify your birthday. Make any necessary edits as required.

If you’re attempting to log in using the “Pro Portal” button on the IFSA website, please be aware that this section is dedicated to our member discount program and is not connected to your LiveHeats account, where you manage memberships and register for events.

The rollout of the Pro Portal is currently underway for members in stages, and we’re aware of occasional issues. We’ll notify you once these problems are completely resolved. If you receive a message indicating that your membership is not valid, please be patient, as it’s likely an error, especially if you’re certain about having an active membership for the 2026 season. Keep in mind that there’s approximately a one-week delay between purchasing a membership and gaining access to the portal. Thank you for your understanding!

LiveHeats just rolled out a new feature allowing members to view their current memberships within your LiveHeats profile! This means you can check to make sure you have all the necessary memberships without emailing your RSD or IFSA!

Since the demand for event starts is very high in many regions,  the seeding list is used to determine which athletes among all the registered athletes are invited into a competition. The seeding list is formulated by an athlete’s best 3 results over the past 52 weeks. Junior Athletes who are new to competition or hold lower places on the seeding list may not secure spots in Junior 3* events. This necessitates their initiation of point collection at 2* events to advance on the seeding list. Similarly, Qualifier Series Athletes who are new to competition or possess lower spots on the seeding list might not secure their preferred choice of popular Qualifier 2* and 3* events, requiring them to begin accumulating points at 1* Events to progress.

The quickest way to check seeding is to go to the “Competition” menu, select your seeding list (Adult or Junior), choose your category, enter the athlete’s name, and the seeding will be visible. The displayed seeding corresponds directly to Liveheats and is utilized for registration purposes.

Seeding not showing after you register for an event? This may be due to registering in the wrong division. For instance, if you registered as a snowboarder when you are a skier, your seed will not be visible.

Additionally, points need to be verified by the IFSA before they are published. It may take 24-48 hours after the event for results to be published.

Junior 2* Events

Once the 72-hour registration window comes to a close, the top-seeded athletes will be moved off the waitlist and confirmed into 50% of the event starts. The remaining 50% of event starts will be awarded by registration timestamp.

Junior 3* Events

Once the 72-hour registration window comes to a close, the top-seeded athletes will be moved off the waitlist and confirmed into 90% of the event starts. The remaining 10% are held until three weeks before the competition, to allow athletes to move up the seeding list during the competition season. Three weeks prior to the start of a 3* event, the 10% registration window will close, and remaining top-seeded athletes will be moved off the waitlist and confirmed until the event is 100% full.

U12 Events

U12 Athletes are unseeded and have access to open registration based on timestamp. U12 athletes making the transition to 12-14 categories will be given 10 seeding points, to validate their experience in IFSA competitions, and to increase their chances of registering for 2* events.

Yes! And you do not need to purchase another regional membership to do so. To register for any events a Junior Athlete needs their IFSA and their local home Regional Membership (See Membership Help Tab). You do NOT need an additional one-time membership if you plan to attend out-of-region IFSA events. Please note, several regions close regional registrations to outside regions for the first 72 hours of registration and only open to all regions if spots are available after. Please contact that region’s Regional Series Director to confirm

Waitlist Cancellation:

To support your fellow athletes on the waiting list, please cancel your registration as soon as possible if you cannot attend. To learn how to cancel your registration please refer to this tutorial.