How can a TD prepare a proper pairings list if it take 6-8 weeks to rate the last tournament? We’ve had a couple tournaments that we’ve turned in over 6 weeks ago and no ratings update.
The proper pairing is the official rating of the supplement. The official ratings only change six times a year. The next one will be April 1, 2005, and the next after that June 1, 2005.
Sign up for access to the TD/Affiliate Support Area, and you can have your events rated within hours instead of weeks. (I’m waiting for the first time someone tells me an event was rated less than an hour after it ended.)
The office is very behind on mail submissions, and has been behind for months, partly because of staff cutbacks, partly because of systems problems with the old ratings system, and partly because of startup issues with the new ratings system. While we’re working on improving turnaround time on mailed-in events, it will take time to get caught up.
Note that memberships and rating reports should now be sent to the Tennessee offices, where there is currently no backlog but the staff is just starting to learn the system.
Nolan:
Well Nolan I could be close to that hour. I had my tournament on 03.05.2005, the last round started at 6 PM for a G/60. The tournament ended at 8 PM, then sent in an online tournament report. The tournament checking was processed at 8:27 PM, and placed onto the MSA at 10:36 PM. From the end of the tournament till it was placed onto the MSA, 2:36 hours.
There were three events held on March 5th that were also rated on March 5th. (You can bring up a list of events based on ending date in MSA by putting in the year, month and day as a partial USCF event ID, ie ‘20050305’.)
I guess I’m first, then. My tournament today ended around 5:00 and was submitted at 5:28 P.M. This is all central time, and just in time, apparently, to make the 6:36 ratings run. 36 minutes is very impressive.
Observation: we’ve made great strides in less than a year from talking about certain week’s ratings runs to the time of day!
Alex Relyea
I think 6:36 is a crosstable update run, the ratings runs themselves are just after the top of the hour. Sounds like your event was probably rated about 30 minutes after it was submitted and about an hour after it ended.
I was originally thinking we would rate events more frequently than hourly, but that appears to be adequate for now, of the 16 hourly ratings runs yesterday, fewer than half had any events ready to rate.