--- Alton Hollingsworth wrote: The Maverick Stampede will lose its exempt status after this year. --- end of quote --- Not quite, what is happening is that it is losing its annual exempt status and becoming once per 4 years exemption like most tournaments. Basically this will only affect UNO itself - the only team in the Stampede every year, as after next year it won't be able to exempt the Stampede games again until 2007.