I have a different question. Does the requirement:
“a. Satisfactory performance as chief TD of one Category D tournament and chief TD or assistant TD of two additional Category D tournaments of at least three rounds which total 50 or more entrants, or”
mean that I have to TD three tournaments each of which has 50 entrants. Or does it mean the number of entrants in all three tournaments added together has to be greater than 50? E.g. I’ve directed 29 events each drawing between 15-30 entrants, but none of them drew 50 entrants.
I’ve only been a club TD for about 6 months, so I’m not in danger of expiring, but I’d like to upgrade as soon as possible.
By definition, a Category D tournament has fewer than 50 entrants. (Between 50 and 99 entrants, you have a Category C event.) The requirement must therefore mean that the number of entrants in all the tournaments added together must be 50 or greater.
Email him with your name; mailing address; USCF ID; and the list of tournaments that adds up to 50 (I included the MSA tournament ID; name; date; and number of entrants).
There’s a motion on the Delegates agenda this weekend that should help those club directors who don’t have an established [regular] rating or the experience required to take the local exam.
Talked with Nancy Evens on these issues’ years ago. It is the total number of entries with all your tournaments. When talking with Larry Pond if the matches count as a tournament, he said yes. As a local director has to have four tournaments during the term, if not … must take the test again. He did say having a match does count as two entrants, it will not count as one of the Category D events – as a match is not a swiss tournament.
The question going around about needing to have three swiss tournaments with “more than” fifty entrants. Having more than fifty entrants would be a Category C event, that would be past the limitations of a club director. Unless the director has a pairing-program, with an aid or one assistant director: then the limitation would be sixty.
Not sure what is going to come out of the US Open, there is room for change, but change into what is the question.
The club director will have to take a test designed by the TDCC, pass the test, just to renew their club certification? Is it that a club director will have to take the local test, without an established regular rating or experience requirements?
A club director who does not meet the criteria to apply for the local TD exam (ie, does not have an established regular rating or meet the experience requirements for becoming a local TD) can take a test and renew his or her Club TD certification for a three year period.
This gives the over 1000 Club TDs and roughly 2500 former Club TDs who are still current USCF members, many of whom don’t meet the criteria for moving up to the Local TD level yet, a way to remain club TDs (or to become Club TDs again.)
TDCC’s initial thoughts on the exam is that it will probably be the same as the Local TD exam, but with a lower passing grade.
The idea of having an online exam (probably for both the Club and Local TD levels) was discussed at the TDCC workshop, with a positive recommendation from the workshop. It may take a few months to implement that.
I think that’s a good idea - at least at the club TD level. Let’s face it - the purpose of all those rules isn’t to de-certify tournament directors, but to let them know what is expected of them, and to encourage them to at least move up to local TD.