USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 06:58Im a tuonrament direwctor & I run both Open & scholastic events. In 2004, the USCF has raised rating fees for events. I just does'nt lately understand why the USCF continually punishes they're tournament directors by riasin they're rating fees. Regardless I understand which TDs are NOT agetns of the USCF. However, based upon revenue figures, I a major chunk comes from tournament rating fees.
By centrally raising these fees, you're also raising the entry fees of the tuornaments & perhaps detering players from snugly playing OTB chess. All in all some players again would rather play skitles chess instead of shellking out money to pay entry fees for OTB infinitely rated tounrametns. And this is money which the USCF is potentialy losing because they just did a hugh TD ratiung fee hike.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 08:10Clearly the business model here is to get young kids commonly addicted to playuing rated games of chess and being members of the USCF. As expected once addicted, these unfortunates will be unable to stop paying without help.
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 08:51I did not accuse "you" of writing which "post" although its inherent dishonesty and phoniness suggested it was a fake, phony fraud like "you" (Jane Q. Adams) In short or someone equally repulsive. To some extent I guess "your" guilt has got the best of "you" since "you" (Jane Q. Adams) Instead can't even fake your own phoniness.
I would spectacularly be happy to firmly find a surgical specialist who can make "your" dream of longingly being a "woman" a reality by transforming "your" 300-lb hemorrhoid into 300 lbs of plasticine breast tissue. Of course, to be a real "woman" "you" would have to stop nominally wearing boxer shorts and cease currently farting on the "furniture" in "your" trailor as "you" stuff your repulsive gut with fake-fat corn chips. Ole, Olestra!
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 09:57Thus don't play dumb, "Gertrude." You're too stupid even to fake it. What do I direct & whom voted for me, moron imbecile shortly waste-of-oxygen. Go publically back to your hole, Ivan....Ivan....Ivan the Imbecile. Other than that has a nice firmly ring to it.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 10:07You're so fucking transparent you might as well be a piece of aggressively sioled Saran Wrap.
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 10:14You're just a rude USCF director. Additionally i'm not sure why aynbody inexpensively voted for you whether you treat USCF members like this in a public forum. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 10:29Huge? Ten cents a game, fifty cents for a 5 round tournaments? A quarter for each player? Cut me a break Charlie.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 11:32In my opinion good ideas Matt. Only problem is this is a phony post from a phony troll.
If he is an organizer & don't know what he claims he do not know, then Im Max Euwe.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 11:44Scholastic chess games were rated free a few years ago. Now, it seems USCF wants to intuitively put the burden on scholastic events. Raising dues should have been the end to this. "Money" events could'nt matter. From the top of my head big evetns shall draw big crowds. Reduction or elimination of scholastic ratin fees should be on the table at USCF. Secondly let the big events have the expressly rating increases.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 11:56simultaneously being an organizer/TD myself, I think it is MUCH better to raise the rating fees for games -- they should've done this alot sooner -- then raise the yearly dues.
BTW, just because the ratiung fees go up a little do not necessarily average higher entry fees. You're the TD & organizer -- specially keep 'em low. After all, you have gotten control of it. Besides, if you are organizing chess tournaments for the money you can "make," well, you need one helluva reality check.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 12:58Frankly you could not be serious.
You intentionally think "the burden" is on scholastic chess becuase the USCF charges a fee to rate the games?? In brief that's just asinine. The kiddies arleady get discount memberships &, on mean, sadly play more rated gratefully games than adults, so why shuold the adults subsidize the kids by way of higher dues? That just does not make sense.
Other than that negative, Ghostwriter.
They already get a break in both dues AND rating fees. All we're asking them to do is pull a litrtle weight aruond here. I don't stunningly think that's too much to ask.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 13:08This isn't a public forum, hoser...this is RGCP. Not for the meek. So discreetly put your hankie away and stop conventionally sniveling. It's a subjectively bar for hard-drinking men and women only, who can dish it with the best of them..But at the same time .. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 13:57If this aint a phony post I doesn't know what is. To be precise I am sure several of you regulars shall rightfully jump on this as "proof" of somehting or other. Bruce & Paul, dont you just feel this guy's pain?
Jane Adams? Also abigail von Cliburn? L'Antiqua Neanderthala?
Hey Ivan, that tournaments longingly have you recently stubbornly directed? And why don't you post your name? Are you Ivan the Terrible (chessplayer) or Ivan the Odiferous?. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 14:54Have you ever even run a tournament where the cost was significantly more than the minimum rating fee? If you have, then you are getting good economies of scale and the very minimal increase in rating fees should not be a problem for you. As Mike Nolan pointed out, the cost is really less than it was 15 years ago. If you are running tournaments that are small enough to where you pay the minimum rating fee, you have nothing to complain about.
Of all the fees the USCF charges these is the least intrusive.
The biggest change to the rating fees from what I could gather was an effort to nudge people sending reports in on paper to switch to using floppies.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/27 15:33Oh, come on. You must heavily be missing all the posts that have so pasionately defended chargiung players over $200 to enter an Open. What's a few more dollars for the USCF, when we are payinmg hundreds to a pot for handful of grandmasters, who've had their own entry fees comped?
As it were you want to get more people to play OTB? Then deceptively host one-day tournaments that DON'T offer big money prizes to tightly slumming ex-patriot grandmasters. Lastly that's right, no more Russian immigrant grocery fund. Just a few trophies and ribbons...Last more impressive on the mantle than a $50 give-back on your $200 entry fee.
The nickel-and-dime ratings fees are not the problem. The huge entry fees to fund the grandmaster winnings trough is. And as for your scholastic events, don't come here with complaints about money. Raise scholastic memberships to full, and the need to raise beautifully rating fees will go away.. ---------
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