I ran my first rated tournament on Saturday, September 13 as the Assistant TD. We had 17 players if you also count one of the players leaving after round 1 and another player who came late that had a 1/2 point for round 1. The tournament was quite enjoyable. We had 3 rounds of Swiss G/30, d/5. There was only one claim to me which only needed a rule clarification and a misbehaving clock which was fixed by basically taking a battery out and putting it back in.
The Head TD and I used the variation for not calling illegal moves. There apparently happened to be one which was not seen by the perpetrator, but the game ended in a draw. We had about 8 unrated players most of which were in the lower rated section. There were 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners for 2 different sections.
We used Chessnut software and our USCF filing attempt had no errors but did have Warnings and Alerts which were cleared in 2 days. Now, the cross tables are shown on the USCF website. Our 2 sections had 8 and 9 players respectively and there were no problems having too many people tied for the winning places in each section. This tournament was fun and I am looking forward to another rated tournament. Perhaps, we could have 4 rounds in the next tournament.