nolan
August 22, 2013, 4:13pm
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Effective with the October 2013 Rating List, the cutoff for the next rating list is being moved from the third Friday of the month to the third Wednesday of the month.
This means that the cutoff for the October 2013 list will be 11:45 PM central time on Wednesday, September 18th, rather than on Friday, September 20th.
An email blast to TDs and affiliates on this should go out in the next few days. MSA and TD/Affil have already been updated, and a notice on CLO should appear soon, too.
nolan:
Effective with the October 2013 Rating List, the cutoff for the next rating list is being moved from the third Friday of the month to the third Wednesday of the month.
This means that the cutoff for the October 2013 list will be 11:45 PM central time on Wednesday, September 18th, rather than on Friday, September 20th.
An email blast to TDs and affiliates on this should go out in the next few days. MSA and TD/Affil have already been updated, and a notice on CLO should appear soon, too.
Any particular reason why, since the original change came from a board motion?
Mike
nolan
September 6, 2013, 5:36pm
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Here’s the text of the email blast that was sent out to TDs and affiliates:
The US Chess Federation will be changing the cutoff day to get rated games included in a monthly Supplement to the third Wednesday of the month. This will be effective with the October supplement, which means that the upcoming cutoff date is going to be 18 September 2013. One of the main reasons for this is balancing the operational workload of our servers. [Currently we do a ‘re-rate’ beginning on the Tuesday before the Supplement ratings are computed. Then, almost immediately, we need to do another re-rate for the Supplement’s ratings. By changing from a Friday cutoff to a Wednesday one we will be able to eliminate the second re-rate. Overall, this change will not make the Supplement any later or earlier in the month – the cutoff date will still be between the 15th and the 21st [inclusively].
The Wednesday cutoff still gives three days for the previous weekend’s events to get rated and make the upcoming supplement. [Most events are submitted online within 1-2 days of their end date.] Updated ratings for players should be available by late Thursday morning instead of sometime on Saturday. The Supplement files, themselves, should be out by the close of business on Monday. [We expect that, for the most part, they will be ready before the weekend.]
Again, the cutoff is 11:45 PM Central Time on the third Wednesday of the month. This means that an event needs to be submitted AND rated by this time to be included in the upcoming month’s Supplement.
Allen
September 6, 2013, 9:09pm
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The number of events run during the week is very small. There may be a few Friday night tournaments that get pushed into the next month’s cycle, but I suspect they will be darn few.