Hi Mike - I just entered a 3 section tournament - in one of the sections I submitted a mbr xcption rqst because of a duplicate (non-member) ID. I then went and checked the tournament, and the section with the duplicate ID came back as a non-rated non-checked section … but it’s OK for me to submit the other two. And then I became confused. Will it remember the data in that non-rated section? Should I hold the whole tournament until I hear about the membership exception request? They can take a LONG time unless Judy Misner gets involved (the woman is awesome!)
Someone in the TN office is supposed to be reviewing exception requests regularly, hopefully every workday. There are no plans to have staff monitor exception requests at night or on weekends.
Unless there’s a bug, the only way to have an event become non-rated is for you to select that in the section type pulldown in the online editing form.
(I suppose if the H_SCHOLAST field in the THEXPORT.DBF upload file was messed up that could happen, but I don’t recall anyone ever reporting that, and I would expect that to apply to all sections, not just one.)
Validating an event should not change an event’s ratable status.
The primary reason for adding the ‘non-rated section’ choice is because that was a quicker fix than writing a ‘delete section X’ routine.
Don’t submit the event, because it will IGNORE the section coded as non-rated and you’ll have to enter it as a separate event!
Can you change that section back to a rated section such as ‘non-scholastic’?
Beyond that, I need the 12 digit USCF Event ID to see if our logs offer any information on what might have happened.
Thanks Mike - weird. I knew my fingers were fat, but I don’t see how that affects a mouse!
I chged it back and everything is fine. Should I wait to submit it until the ofice does it’s manual stuff on the duplicate ID, or are those two efforts independent?
In general it is better to wait until a duplicate ID has been dealt with by the office, especially because depending on the situation it may not be clear which ID will be the surviving ‘active’ ID. Most of the time it is the lower-numbered, hence earlier, ID, but not always.