# jtp tourney help **URL:** \ **Category:** Running Chess Tournaments\ **Created:** [November 17, 2007, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/jtp-tourney-help/5345 "2007-11-17T11:55:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mrribby](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/mrribby/32/3259_2.png) [@mrribby](https://forum.uschess.org/u/mrribby)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 11:55am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/jtp-tourney-help/5345/1 "2007-11-17T11:55:14Z")
Hi Can anyone help me with an issue? For many years I have run a rated chess tournament for kids in my school. We are a junior high. I have used the option that if everyone in the event is from the same school, the players could become jtp members and would not be required to purchase a membership, unless they wanted one. Anyway, when I went to enter my event today…the only jtp option I can find is for K-3 grades. Does the “all player from the same school type of tournament” still work for this option? Thanks, brian ribnick Minnesota ---
**Author:** ![Terry\_Vibbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@Terry\_Vibbert](https://forum.uschess.org/u/Terry_Vibbert)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/jtp-tourney-help/5345/2 "2007-11-17T13:05:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Junior Tournament Player (JTP): Students grade 12 or under who have never been USCF members may become JTPs. JTPs can participate in only two types of USCF-rated tournaments. > These are: > Scholastic-only, school-based tournaments (in other words, a school event open only to students attending that school); and > Primary-school tournaments (or exclusively primary-school sections in larger tournaments), with the exception of the National Elementary School Championship. > JTPs receive a USCF ID number (the red number on the green JTP form), and a rating, but they are not eligible for any other membership privileges. The only requirement is for the tournament director to submit the green JTP forms for each player (addresses and birth dates must be included), along with his rating report. I would advise going to the TD support area and submitting a membership batch entering in all of your players with the JTP option. Get an assigned USCF # for each and then submit your rating report accordingly. ---
**Author:** ![nolan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/nolan/32/174_2.png) [@nolan](https://forum.uschess.org/u/nolan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2007, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/jtp-tourney-help/5345/3 "2007-11-17T15:21:07Z")
Please PLEASE do not use the pre-numbered green forms (assuming you still have any, we stopped sending them out several years ago), that will only slow down the rating of your event, because those forms must be mailed to TN and those IDs created by the USCF office manually, since they’re not in sequence. In fact, if anyone still has any of those green forms, I recommend you get rid of them. You can create IDs online through the TD/Affiliate Support Area using the ‘JTP’ option (towards the bottom of the list on the membership batch form.) However, I suspect that’s not your problem. What affiliate ID will you be submitting this event under? The in-school K-12 JTP section type option is ONLY available when the affiliate ID is for a scholastic affiliate, ie one that has an ID beginning with the letter ‘H’. BTW, Terry, the language you cited appears to be a bit out-of-date, where did you find that so I can get it updated? ---
**Author:** ![Terry\_Vibbert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b77776/32.png) [@Terry\_Vibbert](https://forum.uschess.org/u/Terry_Vibbert)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 1:17pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/jtp-tourney-help/5345/4 "2007-11-19T13:17:13Z")
Google USCF JTP [uschess.org/scholastic/sc-guide2.html](http://www.uschess.org/scholastic/sc-guide2.html) ---
**Author:** ![nolan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/nolan/32/174_2.png) [@nolan](https://forum.uschess.org/u/nolan)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2007, 4:57pm UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/jtp-tourney-help/5345/5 "2007-11-19T16:57:31Z")
The Guide to Scholastic Chess is kind of a step-child document. Dewaine Barber had it written and paid to have it published some years ago, I don’t know if he’s still doing that, or who’s responsible for keeping it up-to-date. I’ve alerted Bill Hall, Jerry Nash and Joan DuBois about this out-of-date language. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.uschess.org/system/32/2_2.png) [@system](https://forum.uschess.org/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2024, 8:39am UTC](https://forum.uschess.org/t/jtp-tourney-help/5345/6 "2024-04-22T08:39:39Z")