Appendix O: USCF Rating Report
In a large tournament, there are usually several sections (for example Open, U2000, U1800,
U1600). A Vega session can administer only one section of the tournament at a time. This is not a
limitation because you can run multiple sessions of the program simultaneously, and keep the user
interface very simple. The rating report for USCF needs 2 steps to be performed:
1. Generate an auxiliary file from each section containing information to be processed later
concerning the current section (file uscfsctn.txt);
2. Process all the uscfsctn.txt files and generate the three files needed by USCF for the final report:
thexport.dbf, tsexport.dbf, tdexport.dbf.
These last files are not covered here (see the USCF Forum for detail). Now we’ll see how to
generate them. The first task is performed when the section tournament is finished by selecting the
option Report / USCF/ Process current section:
A new window will prompt the user for data relative to the current section. Some of this data is of
course the defaults, so the user usually only needs to insert a few of them unknown to Vega (for
example ID Chief TD, and so on. Please note that the fields “Rounds” and “Number of Players”
cannot be edited.)
By pressing the button Done Vega generates the auxiliary file uscfsctn.txt (it is tab delimited) in the
working directory of the current section. This task must be done for each section.
When Vega generates all the uscfsctn.txt files, the user should select the menu item Tournament
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