Anyone seen a crosstable for the Cherry Hill tournament held this Saturday? Don’t tell me they usually submit on paper…
I don’t know about the most recent event, but…
This event: CHERRY HILL CHESS MARCH G10 (201003141061)
was submitted to the USCF office.
This event: GREATERCHERRYHILLMARCHQUADS (201003139791)
was submitted online.
FWIW, when I announced and demonstrated the online submission procedures to the Delegates in 2004, I said that it would only be a matter of time until members EXPECTED to see their events rated within a few days.
These days we start getting inquiries about events the day after they are held.
Saturday we got a somewhat different type of inquiry, a very irate note from a TD whose event was submitted at around 8:30 AM on Saturday and not rated until the 2PM cycle. (We don’t run rating cycles on Saturday mornings as we use that time for some maintenance tasks.)
Wow, that’s pretty impatient.
I’m usually just very happy when an event I submitted or played in is rated the next day. OK, if I’ve had a good tourney, I get ancy waiting for my new rating … but bad tourneys could be rated next year for all I care. 
As a TD of several local events through the year, I have no complaints about the speed of the rating service. There’s a couple of changes I’d like to see in the submission process, but those can wait for another thread (and they’re more desired improvements rather than fixes).
Looking through my email, I see a note that appears to be from the TD of the Cherry Hill event in question asking how to fix a problem he encountered while trying to get it ready to submit online.
Randy, are you aware that you can sign up to get an email when an event you played in has been rated? These usually go out within a few minutes of when the event is rated, often before the event is available on MSA.
To sign up go to secure2.uschess.org/email/email-pref-update.php
I did know about that, but there’s a couple of unique issues here (which are nobody’s fault but my own) getting my PIN is a problem (difficulties with the Post Office, working on it), and I have two email addresses – work, inaccessible from home, and home, inaccessible from work. Anyway, the waiting does me good.