Mike, you mentioned in a post last December the details of the JTP program.
Has anything been changed regarding this program. While at the US Open, I had conversation with Jerry Nash where he said he thought that the program was going to be stopped. It did not appear that this happened through delegate action on Saturday, did anything happen on Sunday or Monday?
nolan
PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 10:23 am Post subject: Reply with quote
The classification of a section: non-scholastic (adult), scholastic, primary, in-school JTP, FIDE, etc., makes no difference in how the event is rated by the USCF.
It does make a difference in how the event is validated and what we do with it after it is rated.
A primary event is one in which all players are in grades 3 or below. It is exempt from USCF membership requirements. Any affiliate may run a primary event.
A scholastic affiliate may also run an in-school JTP event, which is also exempt from USCF membership requirements. However, all players must be students at that school, be in grades K-12, and the school must must have its own scholastic affiliate.
An event coded as scholastic is no different from one coded as non-scholastic, except that we use the coding for some statistical work.
An event coded as FIDE is flagged so that a rating report can be prepared for submission to FIDE.
The Delegates did not do anything to change the rules for JTP events. I don’t know if it was even discussed in the Scholastic workshop, I was only there for 15 or so minutes. I doubt the scholastic community wants the JTP rules changed, especially because the only changes there have been in JTP rules in the last 10-15 years or so have been to narrow them.
It is very important to note that any affiliate may run a tournament outside of a school setting with multiple sections and that a section may have JTP’s as long as it is a 3rd grade and under only section.
You don’t have to be a scholastic affiliate. You do not have to run the tournament at a school. The persons playing do not have to be from the same school.
Has anyone any knowledge of changes to the JTP program? I’m told that a Local TD has had problems submitting a tournament with JTP players. I’m told that there is now something about a 1 game limit to JTP particiapation. If you know anything about this, was this change published. Certainly changes such as this would be communicated to Affiliates who have issued JTPs to children participating in their primary sections of scholastic tournaments, wouldn’t they?
While I do not doubt that a Local TD is having problems submitting a tournament with JTP players (online submission for JTP is a little difficult), I do not think the 1 game limit has anything to do with that. I submitted a tournament last month with plenty of JTPs and they each played 4 or 5 rounds. Do you mean a 1 tournament limit?
If you do mean a 1 tournament limit, that may be plausible because all JTPs after their 1st tournament would be issued a USCF ID. That same ID must be entered for the subsequent tournaments. This has not changed as long as the section meets the requirements and the JTP player is eligible.
I have even had a USCF player with an expired membership play as a JTP in a section. It went through.
Organized our MLK day tournament with Garrett Scott as TD using JTP for the first time. We had 3 JTP sections, K-1, 2-3 U300, and 2-3 Open. The overall tournament had 375 participants, about 100 more than last year without JTP. Can’t tell for sure if # increase was entirely due to JTP, because we also added the 2-3 U300 section and 4-5 U500 section that attracted many “late starters” as beginning players, but it seemed that a great # of people were pleased with both the JTP opportunity and the additional sections.
Submitting the tournament with the JTP sections was pretty easy and I am guessing it will be rated by morning.
Mark represents one of the positive things about the USCF volunteers which is actually at some point moving beyond debate and actually doing something. Good work Mark and associates.