ATTENTION TOURNAMENT DIRECTORS According to the USRA, beginning January, 2004 any Tournament Director(TD) wishing to have their tournament "sanctioned" by the USRA must submit an official sanctioning application to the USRA prior to the actual event. A sanctioned tournament is the only way a player can earn points, establish a ranking, be accurately seeded at tournaments, and track their national progress throughout a season. TD's are responsible for contacting their associations state president and requesting their tournament to be sanctioned. The state president will then fill out and submit the sanction application to the USRA along with the $100.00 sanctioning fee. (the TD is ultimately responsible for the $100.00 sanctioning fee). Once the fees have been paid and the USRA has sanctioned the event the TD is allowed access to tournament scheduling software designed to assist the TD in managing all aspects of the tournament, player information access, and any paperwork/forms necessary to track and report tournament information. Upon completion of the tournament and proper reporting/filing of tournament results by the TD to the USRA, the USRA will refund $50.00 to whoever paid the sanctioning fee. This recent change in policy by the USRA is designed to increase compliance by TD's in submitting tournament results in a timely manner and will aid in keeping an up to date rankings list by the USRA. Any questions concerning this policy may be referred to any of the WRA board members. To aid the TD's the WRA will make every effort to have a representative at each tournament to assist with the player check-in process to ensure every player is a USRA/WRA member and to assist with any questions.
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