There is a dup entry in the K3 U800 section, I’ve alerted the USCF office.
The other one was a file error that I have corrected.
Just reached 5,008
Coming down the home stretch we have NY (953), TX (387), IL (349), MI (319), TN (262), GA (257), FL (251) and AZ (176).
Starting with 4810 as of the morning of 3/29 and adding the 566 in the final week four years ago ends up with 5376. Since 4810 is more than 2% higher than the one-week-left pre-reg four years ago, adding 2% to 566 takes 5376 up to 5387.
We are currently at 5095.
I’ll still take the over for 5400.
5145 late Tuesday
5202 entries, less than 48 hours before the start. 5400 is looking like a pretty good over/under mark. 
In 2009 there were 5375 unique IDs in the registration file for the main event but MSA shows 5300 players and there appear to be 5247 unique USCF IDs in the event, so expect some dropoff in 2013 as well.
Since players who don’t have opponents seated at the start of round 1 are re-paired on the floor against each other, is it safe to guess that much of the drop-off comes from no-shows and last-minute withdrawals?
I wasn’t there, but I assume no-shows and late withdrawals made up the bulk of the dropoff in 2009.
I forgot to take out the withdrawals in the registration file from the counts, that drops the number of entries in 2009 down to 5280, so the fall from there to 5247 unique IDs isn’t as severe.
The current count of 5209/5210 (there is one multiple entry ID issue to be resolved) excludes the 46 withdrawals that have already been processed.
SuperNationals III in 2005 was entered under two event IDs (the K-1 section is a separate event ID), it appears to still be the record with 5320 unique IDs in the crosstable. But SuperNationals V has a good chance of breaking that record.
In the race to the wire there are currently 5344 entries with the following states with 100 or more entries:
NY (990 - will it break 1000?); TX (512 following a big surge to make sure nobody else catches up to it); IL (359); MI (313); TN (291 as the locals come in); FL (270); GA (261); AZ (179); NC (170); WI (168); MO (159); KY (135); VA (132); MN (130); PA (119); CA (117 after adding north and south); MD and WA (105 each); OH (100).
At SuperNationals IV, 2009 here at Gaylord Opryland, the side event, Blitz, in 4 sections, totaled 818 players.
At this SuperNationals V, the side event, Blitz, in 4 sections, had substantially more participation and had already reached the 2009 event level of 818 in advance entries! The results of the four sections adds up to over 900. The exact number has not yet been put online at the writing of this note.
The interesting fact about last night’s Blitz events is that the typical 6 rounds double per section did not happen due to having to adhere to Scholastic Regulations.
The Regulations state, in part:
The Regulations continue:
The first round didn’t start until about 5:40pm local time. Why? I don’t know. But someone needs to find out and see that it doesn’t happen again.
Too many entries and not enough rounds to come to a clear winner in two of the four sections because the rounds started about 1 round length too late.
All the hype about getting more participation in the SuperNationals is moot if the infrastructure available cannot meet the requirements to running a successful event.
This note is not attempting to point or assign blame but this issue will have to be addressed more in depth because the USCF failed last night.
NY has twice as many entries as any other state, but nobody can catch up to Texas?
NY already passed TX, so it can’t “catch up” to it.
A3.3 No round is to begin after 9:30pm.
The first round didn’t start until about 5:40pm local time. Why? I don’t know. But someone needs to find out and see that it doesn’t happen again.
I assume that is 9:40 pm.
There are 5335 unique USCF IDs in the crosstable (event ID 201304070322), so we did break the record turnout from 2005.
And I heard that the registration list (before removing no-shows) was 5448 (not quite my initial prediction of 5450).
Final # per Pat Smith = 5,331
And I do not think that counts the 120-140 adults playing in the Family and Friends tournament’s 2 sections.
Did the Blitz break any records? How much do you think the Blitz rating system helped in the turnout for the Blitz? Also, why hasn’t it (and the family and friends section) being rated yet?
On a different note about the Blitz rating system, if you lookup a players rating on this page, uschess.org/component/option … temid,181/, by typing in the players ID, it says “Blitv” instead of “Blitz”. However, if you type in their name, it says “Blitz”.
One typo down, 9999999999 to go. :sigh:
The Blitz at spring nationals was being rated as quick before. I have no evidence to support this, but my gut feel is that rating it as blitz made little or no difference to turnout. The blitz side event was above 900 players which was 10-15% up from 4 years ago. That could be due to the blitz rating, but I think it is more likely due to people being willing/able to pay the extra cost to come in a day early or flights that made it hard to come in on Friday morning.
Rating of the main event is the priority that the back room tries to do before leaving the playing site. Submitting a 5300+ player event for rating takes a significant amount of time.
Blitz results can be subject to review through Friday night and there were a couple of issues that were not resolved until Saturday evening. With some other issues going on there was not time to get it rated and I’m sure the back room chief will get that done within the time frame specified in the TD guidelines. F&F had some result issues that were not clarified until late Sunday afternoon - see the comments on blitz.
One section of F&F is not rated, and, of course, neither is bughouse.
Several proposals have been floated for ways to rate bughouse. 