General

February 2024 - The following club codes are used in the Membership system and for all competitions - Open, Provincial, and National.

If your club is not listed and you need a Club Code assigned, please use the Contact Us page to request a code. Specific codes can be requested but Club Codes are, ultimately, determined and assigned by CBTF personnel.

The CBTF Coaching Courses have been designed to be completed in stages. There are four stages to becoming fully certified at each coaching level:

April 28, 2020 - The CBTF Education Committee and Sara Mougeot, CBTF SDP Rep, are pleased to share this information on the Online SDP Testing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Online SDP Testing will begin on May 1 - Testing video must be submitted using the website: sdp-online.cbtf.ca.

WBTF Policy & Procedure Manual, Section 11b - Pan-Pacific Cup (last updated August 2019).

With permission from WBTF, this section of the WBTF Policy & Procedure manual is duplicated on our website for the benefit of our Technical membership.

This document many not be copied, duplicated or transmitted, in whole or in part, without express written permission from both the CBTF and the WBTF.

Group contact lists for the National and Provincial Boards and various CBTF Committees. We encourage you to use these group email lists to avoid missing someone.

We also maintain private contact lists for various groups, which are accessible by Board of Directors and Technical Committee members only. If you have access, please treat these lists with respect - they are meant to facilitate communication between Boards in each province; they are not meant for broad distribution.

 

Effective January 1, 2019 the CBTF Competitive Program will consist of 5 levels - C, BN, BI, BA and A.

The CBTF Long-Term Athlete Development model is attached below.

It depicts 8 stages of participation:

November 2021 - CBTF Protocol for music naming and tagging, revised as of November 2021.

Changes:

  • Updated to include the Youth division (abbreviated as YT), as introduced by WBTF for the 2022 World Championship
  • Updated to include BA and BI divisions for Freestyle Solo (commonly called Freestyle) and Freestyle Pair (commonly called Pair)

 

Refer to the Club Codes page to look up the Club Code you should use.

CBTF Competition Director's Handbook, updated March 2021.

Change History

March 2021

  • Added instructions for handling situations when scores need to be re-flashed
  • Added instructions for handling situations when posted results need to be corrected

 

At the 2014 Fall Conference, the CBTF Board of Directors approved a Continuing Professional Education and Development (CPED) Program, designed to foster the development of Coaches, Judges, and Officials, in order to advance amateur twirling in Canada.

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