Our elementary school’s affiliate membership lapsed about 20 years ago. And our legendary coach has retired about 5 years ago. How can we renew our affiliate membership online? Thank you
Odds are you will have to contact the office. Now US Chess ID numbers are required to be listed as an officer and only officers given management privileges can change those listed (as officers or as somebody that can be the Chief TD or submitting TD of events).
I am guessing you already tried reaching out to those who had management ability and they were unavailable to make any changes. Otherwise the affiliate might have simply been renewed and then the IDs updated (if you are able to reach out then still first check with the office to make sure that can be done).
Note that a scholastic affiliate could do single school tournaments (for the students of the school) without requiring US Chess membership (an ID is still needed for each player). That might give some of the students the opportunity to ease into tournaments and discover if they are willing to play in tournaments against non-schoolmates (which would require a paid-up membership, at least for sections with players 4th grade and higher).
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@jwiewel can the office also retrieve the list of officers that had management privileges?
I would guess that they had the capability but you would have to ask them.
The odds are good that an affiliate that has been lapsed that long doesn’t have a lot of information in its affiliate record on officers, but the office should be able to update it to add current officers.
Thank you all for the replies. I will contact the office.
Thank you. JTP seems to be interesting, I have never heard of it before.
I have not run any events as a chief TD yet. Curious, does affiliate pay USCF same per game rating fees when it holds tournaments OTB versus online? Does affiliate pay rating fees for JTP events?
When an OTB tournament is submitted through the on-line rating upload then the cost is 25 cents per game. Any game. There is a 3 dollar minimum per submission (a tournament consisting of one six-game quad is $3, a tournament consisting of two six game-quads is also $3 while a tournament consisting of three six-game quads is $4.50). Submitting on paper is more expensive.
JTP games are submitted at the same fee as other games. Any affiliate can submit JTP games for a kindergarten-3rd-grade section (pre-schoolers are also okay) and they do not have to be limited to a single school. Only a scholastic affiliate (affiliate ID starts with an H instead of the more common A) can submit JTP up through 12th grade, and it is limited to just students of the school the scholastic affiliate is for - and I’m pretty sure that school has to be a recognized general educational facility. JTP still requires a US Chess ID number for each player…
JTP is a good underused option.
I’ve seen quite a few tournaments that had K-3 sections with a “all players MUST be current USCF. sign up/renew here …”
In the past I’ve pitched to some local schools that wanted to have a school tournament(s) to do it with $40 scholastic affiliate and they even got copies of the magazines. I wonder how many JTP K-3 sections or K-12 school tournaments have been done in the last year.
The ED gets a report on JTP activity every month, here’s where it was at the end of February:
Annual Data by fiscal year
year jtp_primary players members jtp_k12 players members scholastic players members
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2019-05-31 173 4356 2614 231 3001 1348 15256 206600 54315
2020-05-31 91 2350 1616 202 2343 1083 12064 162016 45562
2021-05-31 6 86 76 44 732 205 5050 73888 16475
2022-05-31 58 1297 1020 89 1034 541 9310 111679 32923
2023-05-31 75 2049 1370 67 851 427 14284 176875 51600
2024-05-31 75 1951 1319 74 939 471 17911 216949 59090
2025-05-31 76 1774 1035 50 674 392 12244 145834 43905
does JTP have to be OTB?
If a scholastic affiliate is able to somehow separate its private club on chess.com into two clubs, K-3 and 4-6, can it run online JTP in its K-3 club on chess.com?
I think this is mostly due to a lot of people being unaware of the JTP program.
For a few years in a row I would remind folks the K1 & K-3 sections can use JTP and not have to collect the extra $ (all senior+ directors/organizers) - I think I only got one to make the change the next year and then after that they went back to say USCF member$hip required.
I will say that if someone comes forward as not being able to afford rated chess there are folks here that will sponsor the kids that can’t. Schools can get free pieces and boards (and a free TD to direct their JTP tournament)
Since JTP usage still requires a member ID number many organizers that were fine with JTP for the K-3 section have moved to simply requiring US Chess membership after spending more time (ensuring a non-member ID existed) than the time spent simply having a parent get a membership.
If an on-line registration service is used then a JTP-friendly organizer would need to make sure the service supports that option. The change to the TD/Affiliate area has made it a little more clumsy to create an ID number for a non-member new player.
For a new players isn’t it just uploading a properly formatted spreadsheet (csv)? Should be the same as any other new player just with a membership type of Q?
Yeah, almost everyone I know either uses vouchers or just tell folks to go and get their member themselves. Not worth their time even with the “commission.” For a school JTP it makes more sense to put the effort in as my experience shows that less than 50% of the kids will play outside their school unrated tournament.
I don’t think there is a way for a parent to get a JTP membership on their own, but that would take the sting out for some organizers who don’t want to spend thier time.