Non-rated section in the TD/A.

Running Chess Tournaments
1

Mike:

In the TD/A, there is the non-rated section.

  1. How does the non-rated section work?
  2. Do they need to be current USCF members?
  3. Is there a rating fee for the non-rated section?
  4. Would the non-rated section have any record in the MSA?
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The non-rated section is a workaround to get rid of sections that don’t belong.

When an event is submitted for rating, any ‘non-rated’ sections will be ignored. A non-rated section is not rated, it is not loaded to MSA, it is as if that section did not exist.

Why is this necessary? A surprising number of people upload duplicated sections. There is currently no way to delete a section in an uploaded event (because it involves recoding and rewriting of the entire event), changing a section to non-rated is an alternative to deleting the event and starting over.