Ralf Callenberg writes:

60% - you mean, 40% are submitted on paper?

The percentages of events submitted online online are still going up.
60% was about what we averaged for 2005, though it was more like 65% in
the last half of 2005.

So far in 2006 we have received 1803 rating reports. 1340 (74.3%) were
submitted online, 191 (10.5%) were on diskette and 272 (20.2%) were on
paper.

Most of these are rated with little staff intervention.

So, you have got a specific format for the reports? How many tournaments
are rated all in all per year?

In 2005 the USCF rated 6941 events. A total of 234,857 players competed in
those events, playing 501,983 ratable games.

There is a file format that has been in use for well over a decade.
Submission on diskette has been possible since around 1992. Submission
of events via the Internet became possible in late 2004.

Both WinTD and SwisSys, the pairing programs most TDs use for USCF rated
events, can prepare those files.

There will need to be a new file format sometime this year, because
it appears we will need TDs to report color information for FIDE-rated
games and the current format doesn't include that information. I don't
know how long it will take the authors of WinTD and SwisSys to update
their programs to use the new format once it is published, I expect it
will take several years before most TDs are using the new format.

There is a copy of the current file format available at:
http://www.georgejohn.bcentralhost.c...1_TA_files.htm
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Mike Nolan