2009 SEPPA Affiliated judging will take place during the SEPPA convention, April 24th - 28, in Athens, Georgia. Judging dates will be April 24th and 25th. Deadline to receive your print case will be Tuesday, April 21, 2009. Print rules will be posted as soon as we receive them from PEC.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION DEADLINE EXTENSION IMPORTANT    PLEASE READ NOW

As you know, the International Judging is much earlier this year and thus the entry deadline has been moved up to May 1, 2009.  Because of the close proximity to your Regional Judging, we are allowing an extension to your entrants in which they may enter their images for International competition and stay within the normal $95.00 entry fee.  As a special consideration to your entrants, we are allowing them to send their entries no later than 5:00 CST on May 22, 2009.  Obviously, we would like to have as many entries as possible well before that date. 

To be eligible for the lower entry fee if sending entries after the May 1, deadline, your members will need to send a copy of their SEPPA entry form along with their PPA International entry form to verify that they did indeed enter your competition.  In any event, no entries will be accepted after the May 22, 2009 deadline.

Because this is an extreme situation for this year only, the PPA database and online entry system have no way of recognizing approved late entries. If your people have not registered and shipped their cases by May 1st, they will automatically be charged the higher “late fee” and we will manually credit back the difference after processing their case if in fact they have included the supporting Regional entry form.

Please keep in mind that this special extension is for your SEPPA entrants only so we can not make this information available on a larger format such as forums or mass emails.  

If you have any further questions, please feel free to contact me.