Entering A Congress

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To enter a congress, go to its home (select the link from the home page). Either select the Enter Online link near the top of the page, the grey Enter tab. Pick Add Entry

Select the sections you want to enter, and fill in your name. Press the Lookup Player button. This will popup a window which will show a list of players from the rating list that match the surname and initial that you entered. It will search for you in the ECF, Chess Scotland rating list at appropriate to the event. If it is a FIDE rated congress it will also select from the FIDE rating list according to the nationality you selected. Once you select yourself from the list, it will fill in the details of your rating in the Grade/Rating details section of the entry form. The only thing you can change in here is the club. If you are not shown in the list, just press cancel and then enter details of your rating in the Details if not in the grading list  box. If you don't have a rating, then just enter not rated or give any details that the organiser has asked for. 

Once completed, press add entry. You will be taken back to the previous screen, where you can press a pay button to pay, or you can enter other players and pay for them all at once.
 

The organiser may have configured the system to pay using Paypal, bank transfer or both. This congress entry system does not see anything of your credit card details, but once you have paid by Paypal it sends a response back so that you can automatically be added to the entrants list. If you see yourself in the entrants list then it all worked. If you paid by bank transfer, then you have to wait for the organiser to approve the entry. Once someone has paid at paypal or been added by an administrator they will appear on the entrants list.

The idea of the tourny rating column is that it will show the rating to be used in the congress. For example if it is a FIDE rated congress, then it will show their FIDE rating if they have one, otherwise it will show the ordinary standard play rating. If the organiser specifies a rating for an entrant then that will be shown here in preference. The source column shows where the tourny rating came from (either rating list or admin). There is a list under the admin tab on the left hand side showing how the system decides which rating to use.

When someone tries to enter a congress it checks that their tourny rating is under the section limit.

To contact the congress organiser, user the Contact tab on the congress that you are entering. Do not use the Contact link on the home page as this will go to the software developer who knows nothing about the particular congress. Make sure you enter your email correctly else the organiser will not be able to reply. The email gets sent to anyone in the comma separated list of email addresses in the congress Edit tab (configured by the congress organiser)