01What is my job?

The advisor's job is to exist, sign one form, and be in the room. The league runs the season.

You do not coach, you do not teach the material, you do not manage a roster, and you do not need to know anything about AI. The training, the schedule, the challenges, the judging, and the rules are the league's job (§ 3.1). Your signature is what makes a group of students a chapter; your presence is what makes an event a school activity.

02How much time?

The shape of the commitment is fixed by rule: one signature, presence at any sanctioned event your students enter, nothing else required. Practices are scheduled and run by students (§ 3.1). A chapter that never enters a sanctioned event asks nothing of you beyond the signature.

This memo will state a measured hour figure after the first season, not an adjective. If a season ever asks more than the shape above, that is a rules failure to report, not a calendar problem to absorb.

03What does it cost the school?

Nothing, until a team enters a sanctioned event. Chapters are free, forever (§ 3.1). If your students later want to enter a sanctioned event, that entry costs from $250, is typically fundraised by the chapter against a date and a reason, and requires the school's ratification at that point, not now (§ 3.3). Need-based waivers exist and are not published. The league never requires any purchase (§ 6.2).

04Is this safe? Who is liable?

A chapter, by itself, is a school club: free, no money, no events, no travel (§ 3.1). The liability questions arrive only if your students later enter a sanctioned event, and the rules do not let that moment be improvised: no sanctioned event may run without a fiscal sponsor, insurance, and named adult officers of record. That is chartered rule, not policy (§ 6.3), and no sanctioned events exist yet. The league is also independent by charter: AI-tool vendors cannot sponsor, name, or influence any event, round, or award (§ 6.1). Your students will never be marketed to through this league.

05Who runs it?

The founder is a fifteen-year-old student. We are telling you that first because you would find out anyway, and a teacher who discovers it later feels handled, while a teacher who is told up front can judge it for what it is: a league built by the people it assesses, with adults where adults are structurally required. Before any sanctioned event can run, adult officers of record must exist by rule (§ 6.3), and this memo will list them by name when they do.

One more rule worth knowing: if the league ever does business with a company owned by one of its officers, that arrangement must be disclosed on the site, priced at arm's length, and open to rival providers (§ 6.4). No such arrangement exists today.

06What if it doesn't work out?

Dissolving a chapter is one email. No penalty, no notice period, no hard feelings.

If the students drift, the club dies, or the fit is wrong, the chapter closes the day you say so. Nothing follows you or the school for having tried.

07What do my students actually get?

A defense record: an individual, portable, cumulative record of defenses survived, career honesty score, red-team accuracy, and verification accuracy (§ 4.5). In a world where any student can produce polished work with AI, the scarce credential is proof that a student can account for their work under live questioning. That is the thing this league measures, and your students keep it across teams, schools, and seasons. A student who never wins anything still graduates with a number that means something.

08What do I do next?

If the answer is yes: print the chapter charter, sign it, and have a student send it in. That one page is the entire commitment described in item 01.

Questions a form can't answer: ask them and the answer becomes a public ruling (§ 5.2). That is how this league treats questions.