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A travel team's registration form names the organizations it might play under in a season, and a Georgia team's names thirteen: seven national bodies and six operators closer to home. Here is each one by what it is, where it runs, the classes it assigns to teams, its national event and whose rulebook it plays, read from the body's own pages. No body publishes a tier of organizations, and this page does not rank them.
The national bodies come first, in the order the home page's directory lists them, then the operators a Georgia team meets closer to home. Each row carries the month its pages were read and a link to the body's own site. Where a body's site refused readers or a field could not be read, the row says so in plain words rather than guessing.
Seven that run nationally
Each writes or adopts a rulebook, registers teams, assigns them a class and runs a national event. Several run the same weekend in the same town, and a team may carry two or three of these registrations in one season.
- What it is
- The national governing body: it writes the rulebook, sanctions teams through its 62 state and metro associations, runs a championship pyramid, and runs the national-team pipeline, the High Performance Program.
- Where
- National, through local associations organized into ten regions.
- Classes
- Class A, B and C. GOLD is the top championship level for 16U and 18U, not a class.
- National event
- The GOLD National Championship at Devon Park, Oklahoma City (July 9 to 12, 2026), and Class A national championships by age.
- Plays under
- Its own: the USA Softball Official Rulebook (2026).
- What it is
- A multi-sport sanctioning body by its own by-laws: team registration, points and berths, rankings, and World Series events.
- Where
- National, from Melbourne, Florida, with state programs on its state sites.
- Classes
- USA Elite Select, A, B and C. A team may not place itself in C; its state director moves it down.
- National event
- World Series events, among them the Space Coast World Series in Viera, Florida (June 22 to 27, 2026).
- Plays under
- Its own fastpitch playing rules (17th edition, printed January 2024, as posted).
- What it is
- A sanctioning body for youth and adult fastpitch and slowpitch, founded in 1982 in Lexington, Kentucky, with its own rulebook, qualifiers and World Series.
- Where
- National, from Nicholasville, Kentucky; its 2026 World Series sat in Kentucky, Michigan, Indiana, Florida, California and Washington.
- Classes
- A, B, C and Open; C in 10U to 14U only.
- National event
- Six regional World Series in July 2026 (Owensboro, Kentucky; Midland, Michigan; Crown Point, Indiana; Clearwater, Florida; Clovis, California; Spokane, Washington).
- Plays under
- Its own: the 2026 NSA Fast Pitch Rule Book.
- What it is
- A girls-only sanction and circuit: teams register in a division and play National Qualifiers toward one national championship, beside showcases and all-American games.
- Where
- National; its 2026 fall qualifiers sat in California, Arizona, Texas, Indiana, Illinois, Nevada and Georgia, and its Nationals in Huntington Beach, California.
- Classes
- Premier, Platinum and Regional, chosen by the team when it sanctions.
- National event
- The PGF National Championships in Huntington Beach, California, late July into early August.
- Plays under
- NFHS rules with PGF modifications.
- What it is
- PG Softball, the softball arm of Perfect Game, a scouting and showcase company: tournaments, showcases and player rankings. Formed in July 2020 with PGF.
- Where
- National; Perfect Game is based in Sanford, Florida.
- Classes
- Player rankings rather than team classes; a C division appears in its rules addendum.
- National event
- Its tournaments and showcases, scheduled by event.
- Plays under
- NFHS rules with the PG Softball rules addendum, applied per event.
- What it is
- In its words "a national organizing body for travel softball" that is "neither a governing body nor an event company": league seasons through member leagues, a team rating and a national championship series.
- Where
- National, through nine regional member leagues: Atlantic Coast, Central, Heart of America, Northeast, Northwest, Pacific Coast, Rocky Mountain, Southeastern and Texas.
- Classes
- Super and Champions divisions; an Elo-style Alliance Team Rating; Tiers I to III and Open at the AFCS.
- National event
- The Alliance Fastpitch Championship Series (AFCS) in Indiana (listed for July 12 to 31, 2027).
- Plays under
- NFHS rules with modifications at its national events; a league weekend follows the host event's rules.
- What it is
- An event company, "not a sanctioning body" by its own statement: tournaments, World Series and Nationals, showcases and camps, from Fort Collins, Colorado.
- Where
- National; events in Colorado, Utah, California, Oregon, Texas, Missouri, Georgia, Kansas, South Carolina, Oklahoma, Nevada, Virginia, Arizona and Florida.
- Classes
- None; event divisions such as Power Pool and Open.
- National event
- The Triple Crown Fastpitch World Series (Ogden, Utah; San Diego; Portland, Oregon) and TC Nationals, and the Colorado Sparkler and Fireworks over the Fourth of July.
- Plays under
- NFHS rules with Triple Crown modifications, plus each event's own rules.
Six operators a Georgia team meets
Some are sanctions with their own rulebooks and ladders; some are tournament hosts that play under another body's rules. The row says which.
- What it is
- A girls' fastpitch sanction, in its words "a Girl's Fastpitch Organization that is run by Fastpitch People": team sanctioning, its own rulebook and umpire program, state calendars and a World Series.
- Where
- The South and Midwest, from Panama City, Florida: state calendars for Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas.
- Classes
- Open and C at the World Series; A, B and C travel teams and rec and all-star teams in its rulebook.
- National event
- The USFA World Series in Panama City Beach, Florida (July 5 to 10 and July 11 to 17, 2027).
- Plays under
- Its own 2026-2027 USFA Rulebook, with NFHS rules where it is silent.
- What it is
- Grand Slam Sports Tournaments, a tournament company for youth baseball and fastpitch, hosting events "all over the Southeastern United States" by its own description.
- Where
- The Southeast and Gulf South, from Inlet Beach, Florida: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia by its own list, with softball directors in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Mississippi.
- Classes
- Rec, All Star, Class C, Class B, Class A and Open (JUCO and high school divisions too), without published criteria.
- National event
- The Grand Slam Softball World Series at Frank Brown Park, Panama City Beach, Florida (June 21 to 27, 2027, with a second session June 28 to July 3).
- Plays under
- Its own 2026-2027 rulebook on NFHS rules.
- What it is
- Georgia Softball Authority, in its words the "official governing body for sanctioned softball tournaments and teams in Georgia": one-day tournaments, rankings and its own rulebook.
- Where
- Georgia only, from Hiram.
- Classes
- A-Gold, A-Silver, B-Gold, B-Silver, B-Bronze, B-Copper Plus, B-Copper Minus, All Stars and Unclassified, moved by its directors through the year.
- National event
- None national; a one-day Fall World Series in Georgia (November 14, 2026).
- Plays under
- Its own 2026 GSA rulebook, with USA Softball rules where it is silent.
- What it is
- Titan Tournaments, a tournament host for youth baseball and fastpitch, not a sanction; teams carry their own insurance.
- Where
- North Georgia and metro Atlanta, from Athens, Georgia, with events in South Carolina.
- Classes
- A, B, C and Rookie, defined by results against the class below.
- National event
- None national; the season closes with the Titan Fall Finale (November 14 and 15, 2026, Lilburn and Jefferson, Georgia).
- Plays under
- Its own tournament rules, posted for fall 2026 and spring 2027.
- What it is
- Top Flight Tournaments, "a group of former and current softball coaches" running tournaments and college showcases, "powered by USA Softball"; established 2019.
- Where
- Georgia, from Marietta.
- Classes
- None; Open divisions by age.
- National event
- None national; showcases such as The Southern Fall (Ellijay, Georgia, November 13 to 15, 2026) and the Legendary Showcase of Georgia.
- Plays under
- USA Softball rules with event exceptions; teams register with USA Softball.
- What it is
- Top Gun-USA Sports, a tournament operator for youth baseball and softball with its own World Series, Nationals and Tournament of Champions; its events are open roster.
- Where
- The Carolinas and Virginia, from Concord, North Carolina, with Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia and New York also named.
- Classes
- A, AA, B and BB, set by each state's percentiles and moved up by results.
- National event
- The Top Gun-USA Sports Softball World Series in Concord, North Carolina (June 19 to 21, 2026), and a Winter World Series in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (October 31 to November 8, 2026).
- Plays under
- Its own general rules on NFHS rules (2026).
HPP, and what class means
HPP. On a form or a flyer, HPP is USA Softball's High Performance Program, its national-team identification pathway: regional identifiers, a national selection event and a top performers camp. It is a program a player enters, not an organization a team joins.
Class means two things. Inside an organization, it is the level that body assigns a team for its season and its championships, and every body names its own: USA Softball's A, B and C with GOLD as a championship level above A; USSSA's USA Elite Select, A, B and C; NSA's A, B, C and Open; PGF's Premier, Platinum and Regional; the Alliance's Super and Champions divisions and its rating; USFA's Open and C; Top Gun's A, AA, B and BB; GSA's ladder from A-Gold to B-Copper Minus; Titan's A, B, C and Rookie; Grand Slam's Rec through Open. Between organizations, "major" and "elite" are folk labels for circuits. No body publishes a tier of organizations, and this page does not rank them.
Notes and sources
Every row is read from the body's own pages on October 18 and 19, 2026: its about page, its rules or rulebook page, its classification page and its national event page, each named in the research behind this page. Five names on a form are short, and they are read here as the bodies a Georgia team plays under: Grand Slam Sports as Grand Slam Sports Tournaments of Inlet Beach, Florida; GSA as the Georgia Softball Authority of Hiram, Georgia; Titan as Titan Tournaments of Athens, Georgia; Top Flight as Top Flight Tournaments of Marietta, Georgia; Top Gun Sports as Top Gun-USA Sports of Concord, North Carolina. Two fields are thin and say so: Perfect Game's events and Titan's rule base. Classes, fees, geographies and event dates move every season, so the body's own site is the place to confirm the current detail.
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