WinTD & "Make USCF Report" Error

I’ve just finished a small tournament. I click on “Make USCF Report” and I receive the following error alert:

“Section open has games without results correct this before doing report.”

I think I’ve found the problem, but I don’t know how to correct it. I have a player who withdrew while I was making the 2nd round pairings. However I made the mistake, the crosstables now show her being paired with someone else who withdrew after round one. I need to change her second round pairing to be a zero point bye. Any suggestions as to how one might do this? (The crosstables do not show the other person being paired with her.)

-Steven Craig Miller

I’m not sure what you did, you might check the Estima website.

I think I’d print out a crosstable and start over, duplicating the pairings and results.

The down and dirty way (though not exactly proper) is to pair these two against each other (section–>enter manual pairing) in round two and give them a double forfeit (double click on the game) as a result. There are other better ways that take more explanation or a view of the videos I have on-line.

Edit: I am assuming you already deleted the game in round 2 that this player was paired in and then tried to give him a 0 point bye (with a 1 point bye going to the opponent).

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. Since the tournament was so small, I decided simply to start over and redo the whole tournament.

Steven Craig Miller

A few years back I had some kind of glitch in Swis-Sys occur mid-way through the day of an event I was directing.

It locked up and required a reboot of the computer and when I brought the event back up at least two sections were corrupted.

I wound up redoing all four sections (with around 90 players) from the pairing sheets. I think it took me less than 20 minutes to redo the whole thing starting from the pre-registration file. Fortunately, I always keep written change orders for bye requests, withdrawals, etc. (Usually I make the players sign them, too.) Not a single round was delayed.

I recall a large, scholastic tournament where PairPlus was not quite so kind.