On the school affiliates, can the affiliate be under the school districts name than the local school?
Working with a number of schools thats’ in the same school district. They have a number of schools in the district, and this year they have the coaches built up for the K-12. Some time this winter there is plans for a in school district chess tournament. Wonder if the school district can use the JTP than each and every school.
The goal is to have this a K-12 JTP tournament. This can only happen if and only if the school district can use the affiliate name than each and every school in the district.
There is a large number of students that do play chess. The last tournament (un-rated) had 32 invited players (K-5). This year the district has ordered 80 boards and sets, as the K-5 tournament was limited with the amount of boards. If the school district can use the JTP program, the tournament for the K-12 would be Category C to a little over a Category B event.
My understanding of the limitations on K-12 JTP events is that the affiliate must be in the name of the school holding the event and all players in the event must be students at that school.
While the district could have an affiliate (and several do), that affiliate is not entitled to run K-12 JTP events. (All affiliates can run K-3 JTP events.)
If you need more information on this, please contact Scholastic Director Jerry Nash, jnash@uschess.org.
Cannot justify asking the district to spend $520 in affiliate fees to have all the schools (K-12) able to have JTP tournaments. Even if the district did, they want to have a tournament between the schools not within the school.
The reason for the JTP tournaments, so the district can prove the number of players they do have. With the number of players posted in the MSA, it would give firm numbers for grants to get more sets, boards and more important clocks.
There should not be any problem to run the K-3 JTP events with the affiliate (A6020393). Having eight schools in the district that have K-3 students, it can be a hard sell telling the coaches to limited their team from K-5 to K-3. Having a K-3 JTP would be nice, do not see the JTP members convert over into real USCF members because of the event.
What it looks to be the best case, is have the invited non-rated event. The ones that do well in the event, with the support of the parents. Could become USCF members to be in a rated scholastic tournament. With the results of the invited event last school year, would only say there are only five player I would recommend a full USCF membership.
Since I will be coaching the high school students, and now the first meeting will not happen till November 2. With the eleven students that want to be in the club, it will be a few weeks after the first meeting to see who should join the federation.