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== Sanctioning Tournaments Processing Memberships or Renewals ==
All tournament players, whether a newbie or someone with a rating who hasn't joined NASPA maintains its [httpyet, must join NASPA in order to play in your tournament. Here are some scenarios that might apply to your tournament://www.scrabbleplayers.org/tourneys/cal
1. You are gathering entries for your tournament and you look on cross-tables to see if they are members. [http://cross-tables.com/ Cross-tables] says "check with NASPA". You check on the [http://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/members.pl NASPA member database], accessible by clicking on "Member Search" on the sidebar. If they have a member number in the NASPA database, they are good to go. Occasionally a membership does not show up on Cross-tables right away but will already be listed on the NASPA database.
2. You are gathering entries for your tournament and you agree to let someone join NASPA at the door. If you know ahead of time that one or more people are going to do this, send the names to [[Mad Palazzo]] or [[John Chew]] and let them know your situation. They will give the prospective players a temporary membership with a very short expiration date. After you have sent the money, the correct expiration date will be listed. Be sure to send the appropriate contact information for the member files, either by email or mail including information on the [[media:NASPA_Membership_Application.pdf|Membership Application Form]].
3. You are checking in players the day of the tournament and you have a walk-in who is not a member.
Check to make sure that all of your players are listed on the NASPA site as members. Rating data will not be accepted if any players are not members. Since however we are not yet set up to accept membership payments online, if you need to pay for memberships to get your tournament rated, please send a list of members with contact information to [[John Chew]] who will bill your director account and activate the memberships. If you have players who say they have recently mailed membership checks to NASPA, we will put those on your account so that your event can be rated, then remove the charge when their payment is received.
By "director account" that simply means there will be a list of directors and what they owe for the new members and your "account balance" will go away once you have paid. This does not go on your credit card when you submit your results.
You also have the option of authorizing the membership monies to be charged to your credit card.
4. A tournament entrant says he has joined NASPA. Ask what his membership number is. If it starts with AA followed by 6 digits, you're fairly sure he joined NASPA and not the NSA. Occasionally people join the NSA thinking that it will entitle them to play in NASPA-rated tournaments.
== Sanctioning Tournaments ==