1. Choose a division to play in and sign up to play at the event. There are 2 divisions to choose from for men and 2 for women.
Men’s and Women’s divisions – Men’s Open and Women’s Open divisions
Generally, beginners or those who can’t throw far will start out playing in the men’s or women’s division.
The Men’s Open or the Women’s Open are for teams who can throw farther, but also for those who are looking to place in the overall Quad Series Championship for the year. 

2. Sign up at the event. When your name is called, you will take one throw without your dog from the throwing line. This is your seeding throw, and you will try to throw as far as you can, as this will determine your throwing order in your Heat.

3. You will be placed in a “Heat” in your division, based on your seeding throw in relation to the other player’s distance of throws in your division. The running order for Heats will be announced. 

4. When your Heat is up to play, all those teams go to the throwing end of the field. The number of teams playing will vary depending on the attendance. There will be no more than 3 rounds of play in each Heat. 

The Quadruped is played with “Heats” of teams, and “Rounds” within those Heats.

The first team in the first Heat will throw 3 throws. The catches the dog makes will be marked on the field. The next team will then have a chance to throw 3 times to try to get a longer catch. The next teams will follow this format. Who gets eliminated will depend on how many teams are in the heat. The idea is at least one team will be eliminated in this first round (if there are more than 4 teams then more than one will be eliminated here – 5 teams, 2 get eliminated, 6 teams, 3 get eliminated etc etc).

If there are 4 teams for example – the team with the shortest catch gets eliminated from this round. So you do not have to have the longest catch, you just have to beat the shortest catch. (If there are 5 teams, two will get eliminated,  so you will need to have a catch farther than two of the other teams.)

In another example: If there are 4 teams and the first team up doesn’t get a single catch – then the second team up just needs a catch ANYWHERE on the field to advance to the next Round. Any catch beats no catch.

Once the first Round is completed and the shortest catch or catches are eliminated – we move to Round two in that Heat, which will include 3 teams. We start over with each team getting 3 throws – shortest catch eliminated.

Then in the third and final Round of the Heat it will be down to 2 teams. In this Round the two teams alternate their three throws. So team 1 throws one, then team 2 throws one. Then team 1 takes their second throw etc…

The throwing order for the final Round is determined by who had the longest throw in the Heat between the final two throwers. The person with the longest throw gets to choose whether they want to throw first or second. 

The team that wins the final Round of this Heat will advance to the finals. All other teams from this Heat will go to the Last Chance.

The Last Chance Round

Immediately following the completion of each division’s Heats, all teams except the winners of the Heats, go to the Last Chance Round. Each team gets to take 3 successive throws. After all of the teams have thrown, the team (or teams, depending on the number being taken*) with the longest catch(es)*, earns a spot in their division finals. 

The Division Finals

Each division will have 4 teams playing in the Finals. The finals are played out just like one normal Heat. The first team eliminated earns 4th place. The next team eliminated earns 3rd place. The remaining two teams alternate throws and determine 1st and 2nd place in that division. If for some reason one of the teams that make the finals cannot compete (they left early, got injured etc..) Then the finals will run with three teams. The team that didn’t compete gets 4th place. There are NO substitutions – ie adding in a 4th team to make up for the missing team.