@jetoba
I’ve only been running youth tournaments half as long. But, my experience is quite similar.
That’s a big reason I say that beginners should never resign. I admit that counting fifty moves while your king is chased by a queen can be a chore.
I inadvertently lumped in all of the tournaments open to adults and overlooked dividing by 2 players per game. The number of tournaments was right but a more strict review of the kids vs open sections comes up with only about 420,000 games in kids-only sections and about 95,000 games in sections that allowed adults, not 1,000,000 games (though sometimes seems like more).
Still impressive numbers.
I’ve been responsible for running a few tournaments that exceeded 1000 players (our state elementary championships) but the vast majority of those I’ve been TD for have had 40-100 players (local events). The largest local event has 143. Numbers have been in the 30-70 range since 2008. They were routinely 90+ before that. I do not have a count of the number of events, but there have been 2-12 per year for the past twenty years. The past few years, I’m nearly always running the pairings, but I get some time on the playing floor.
@jetoba
I’ve only been running youth tournaments half as long. But, my experience is quite similar.
That’s a big reason I say that beginners should never resign. I admit that counting fifty moves while your king is chased by a queen can be a chore.
I inadvertently lumped in all of the tournaments open to adults and overlooked dividing by 2 players per game. The number of tournaments was right but a more strict review of the kids vs open sections comes up with only about 420,000 games in kids-only sections (around 234,000 in the 43 US scholastic nationals I've worked) and about 95,000 games in sections that allowed adults, not 1,000,000 games (though sometimes seems like more).