Meeting the performance standard on tournaments with Leago

Running Chess Tournaments
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Recently I pulled 577 sets of upload files from September 28th through October 5th for testing by me and by Leago. This includes 19 events that were submitted using the old version1 upload format, so we’ll find out if Leago can support that or not. (It also includes 7 events where the upload files were invalid for some reason, those should continue to fail in Leago’s testing.)

Looking at our log records, over half of these events took under 15 minutes for the TD to upload, validate, correct as needed and release for payment.

On a recent event (The 2025 Texas Women’s Championship), it took the TD about 6 minutes. I just tried uploading the same set of files on the alpha server, and it took me about the same amount of time to get to the release for payment page.

Another 40 player event that took the TD less than 2 minutes took me about 4, but part of that time was dealing with an issue on Alpha that is being corrected.

It will take some time for TDs to build up a little speed on event processing/validation, because so many things have moved or changed, but I’m pretty confident we’ll be close to the performance standards of the current system on launch.

BTW, we’re changing the warning on tardy submissions to about 3 weeks rather than 10 days.

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Will it help if the warning on tardy submissions time period is changed to longer than 10 days for OTB games?

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We did talk about this in today’s group meeting and it is changing from 10 days to (I think) 3 weeks, though I’d prefer longer, like 4-5 weeks. I don’t know when this will be deployed, possibly in the next update to beta.

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Why are people not on time as a general rule?

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Dunno, life gets in the way, I guess. I know after being on site from 8AM to 10 PM (not unusual at many one-day events), I’m really tired. Now throw in a couple of issues that take some time to straighten out, like the player who gave you his word he had renewed his membership last night, but for some reason you can’t verify that on MSA. Sorry, but after being lied to, I’m really not in the mood to pay $10 for that jerk.

Old-timers like me will remember the days when if a player wrote a bad check to a TD, the TD could have the player’s membership suspended until the player repaid the TD. Not sure when that stopped being done, but I think it was long before many events started taking credit cards.

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