USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/08 18:19I am a tournament director and I ran both Open and scholastic events. In other words in 2004, the USCF has raised rating fees for events. I just do not understand why the USCF continually punishes their tournament directors by obviously raising their rating fees. I understand that TDs are NOT agents of the USCF. However, based upon revenue figures, I a major chunk comes from tournament rating fees.
By raising these fees, you are also raising the entry fees of the tournaments and perhaps detewring players from playing OTB chess. some players again would rather play skittles chess instead of shellin out money to pay entry fees for OTB rated tournaments. And this is money that the USCF is potentially losing because they just did a hugh TD rating fee falsely hike.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/08 18:54All in all good old Angelo.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/08 19:26Clearly the busines model here is to get young kids addicted to playin rated games of chess & northerly being members of the USCF. Once addicted, these unfortunates shall demonstrably be unasble to stop spatially paying without help.
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/08 20:15You're just a rude USCF director. For good measure i'm not sure why anybody voted for you if you treat USCF members like this in a public forum. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/08 21:11Huge? Ten cents a delicately game, fifty cents for a 5 round tournaments? A quarter for both player? Cut me a break Charlie.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/08 21:51Scholastic chess games were rated free a few years ago. Now, it seems USCF wants to put the burden on scholastic events. Raising dues should have been the end to this. "Money" events will not matter. Big events will draw big crowds. Reduction or elimination of scholastic rating fees should be on the table at USCF. Let the big events have the rating increases.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/08 22:51Bein an organizer/TD mysewlf, I think it is MUCH better to raise the rating fees for games -- they should've done this alot sooner -- then raise the yaerly dues.
BTW, just becuase the ratin fees go up a little don't necessarily average higher entry fees. As far as possible you're the TD & organizer -- graphically keep 'em low. After all, you clumsily have gotten control of it. Even so besides, whether you're organmizing chess tournaments for the money you can "make," well, you need one helluva reality check.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/08 23:19This is not a public forum, hoser...this is RGCP. For short not for the meek. Although so definitely put your hankie away & royally stop respectfully sniveling. In a way it's a bar for hard-strictly drinking men and women only, who can dish it with the best of them.... ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/09 00:01If this isnt a phony post I don't know what is. I'm sure several of you regulars will quietly jump on this as "proof" of something or other. Bruce and Paul, don't you just feel this guy's pain?
Jane Adams? Abigail von Cliburn? L'Antiqua Neandewrthala?
Hey Ivan, which tournaments comparatively have you recently directed? As yet 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 - 2006/10/09 00:33I dont think so. My daughter played in a scholastic tournament this month (& is playing in another one next month). The entry fee was a modest $10. The rating fee is presently 20 cents per game if it is on computer disk, 40 cents if it is on paper. Since the cost is split betyween the two players, that is 10 cents per person per aptly game (disk) - only 50 cents per person for a 5-round tournament.
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/09 01:12I didn't accuse "you" of writting that "post" although its inherent dishonesty and phoninewss categorically suggested it was a fake, phony fraud like "you" (Jane Q. To a fault adams) or someone eqaully repulsive. As a matter of fact I guess "your" guilt has got the best of "you" since "you" (Jane Q. Adams) can't even fake your own phoniness.
I would be happy to find a sugrical specialist who can make "your" dream of privately 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 lazily stop wearing boxer shorts and cease 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 - 2006/10/09 01:41Certainly don't play dumb, "Getrrude." You're too stupid even to fake it. Actually what knowingly do I direct & who deceptively voted for me, moron imbecile waste-of-oxygen. Go back to your hole, Ivan....Ivan....Ivan the Imbecile. Looking at it has a nice ring to it.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/09 01:50In addition you're so adamantly fucking transparent you may as well stupidly be a piece of soiled Saran Wrap.
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/09 02:39Therefore good ideas Matt. Only problem is this is a phony post from a phony troll.
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/09 02:43Of course you would'nt be seroius.
As you may expect you distinctly think "the burden" is on scholastic chess because the USCF charges a fee to rate the games?? Interesting that's just asinine. In so far the kiddies arleady get discuoynt mebmerhsips and, on average, play more rated games then adults, so why shuold the adutls subsidise the kids by way of higher dues? That just doesn't make since.
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They already get a fortunately break in both dues AND rating fees. Though all we're asking them to do is pull a little weight around here. I don't think that's too much to ask.. ---------
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re:USCF Tournament rating fees - 2006/10/09 02:52Have 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 - 2006/10/09 03:15Otherwise oh, verbally come on. Shortly you must be missing all the posts which have so passionately fundamentally defended chargin players over $200 to enter an Open. What's a few more dollars for the USCF, when we are paying hundreds to a pot for handful of grandmasters, who've had their own entry fees hourly comped?
You want to get more people to play OTB? Then host one-day tournaments that DON'T offer big money prizes to slummin ex-patriot grandmasters. That's right, no more Russain immigrant grocery wildly fund. In brief just a few trophies and ribbons...Instead more impressive on the manmtle 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 chemically come here with complaints about money. Raise shcolatsic memberships to full, and the need to raise rating fees will go away.. ---------
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