Although I know that I never run JTP tournaments, it would be nice to be able to explain them to another TD in my state looking for help. So can someone answer this question so that I can pass along that information? Thank you in advance.
Enrique
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Where can I find the definitions of the section types listed when you submit a tournament on-line? (There is a drop-down menu for each section with the options “Non-scholastic”, “scholastic”, “Primary JTP”, “In-School JTP”.) In the tournaments I’ve done, I list a section that includes only K-12 students as “Scholastic” and any other section (any section with an adult player) as “Non-scholastic”. But I’ve never really understood the difference.
These are explained on the ‘help’ page for the online form.
Any affiliate can run a primary JTP event, but all of the players in it must be in grade 3 or below.
Only a scholastic affiliate gets the ‘in-school JTP’ option. All students must be attending the same school and the report must be submitted on behalf of that school’s scholastic affiliate, but the players can be in grades 12 and below.
There really isn’t much difference between the ‘non-scholastic’ and ‘scholastic’ options, though at the time this was first being defined there was a difference in the ratings fees between scholastic and non-scholastic events.
The ‘membership exempt’ option isn’t really used (or offered) any more because we have a separate mechanism and data field (for office use only) for handling blanket membership exemptions for a section.
Later this year we will probably eliminate the ‘FIDE Rated’ option, because it may be useful or necessary to keep track of that separately, too, due to the likelihood of higher ratings fees for FIDE rated events. (I’m leaning towards suggesting we give a discount for FIDE rated events that are registered in advance with the USCF, so they can be registered with FIDE in advance, too.)