I have heard the U.S.C.F. Tournament Directors have to pay a fee to the U.S.C.F. for each game that is played in a tournament that T.D. puts on. Is this so and if so, how much does the T.D. pay to the U.S.C.F. for each game played in their tournament?
It’s not really the tournament director, it is the tournament organizer, as the fee generally comes out of entry fees paid to the organizer.
For events submitted online (which 95% of events are) we charge 25 cents per ratable game. (Forfeits and byes don’t count, obviously.)
FIDE also charges organizers to rate events under their rating system, quite a bit more than the USCF does, actually.
“For events submitted online”, the charge is 25 cents a game. What if the tournament results are sent in via U.S. mail instead of online?
Currently in the TD/A:
on-line $0.25 per game, $3 minimum total
mailed disc $0.40 per game, $5 minimum total
mailed paper $0.60 per game, $8 minimum total (I thought it used to be $0.80 per game)
P.S. that is per game, not per player per game. So a 16-player 4-round event has 32 games (8 games per round - assuming no byes or forfeits).
40 cents/game if the rating files are submitted on diskette, 60 cents if submitted only on paper.
There are also minimum fees:
$3 for an event submitted online, $5 for an event submitted on diskette, $8 for an event submitted on paper.
When the rating fee rates were last changed, in 2007, there was some discussion of 80 cents/game for events submitted on paper, but the Board chose to go with 60 cents/game.
The fee is actually for each game that’s rated by the USCF, not each game that’s played. If some sections are USCF rated and some aren’t you’d only pay for the games in the rated sections.