You do not have to do Safe Sport to join and you have 30 days to complete Safe Sport after you join. So if you want to compete in a tournament in those 30days you can. But, your scores aren't official till after you complete Safe Sport. Now true Story my Grand Son joined In late June so the web site wouldn't even allow him to sign up for tournament in July. But they were notified he was planning on skiing. He did complete safe sport 2 days before. Skied on Saturday. Scorer didn't put him in, (don't know why) His score did not appear in scorebook. Check with AWSA and yes he was safe sport qualified. Scorer would not correct scorebook. So he lost his PB. But, the sad fact is it was a 3 event slalom and it was over in 4 hours. Where are the all the skiers?