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This document about when a [[tournament]] [[director]] should allow a player to ''play up'' in a higher division than indicated by their [[rating]], originally published by the [[NSA]] in the late 2000s, remains in effect. Note that the ‘cross-tables’ referred to here are the official rating results posted originally on the NSA server, now on this server, not those found at our partner domain cross-tables.com.

With the more frequent posting of cross-tables beginning in 2005,
the question of which rating a director should use when assigning
players to divisions is often asked. Our policy continues to be as follows.

Directors have the option of either using the most up-to-date ratings
based on newly-posted cross-tables (as brought to their attention by the
affected players, and not necessarily having the director taking the
proactive step of checking all players ahead of time -- although that is
permissible certainly, but in our opinion, going far beyond what's called for), or using the beginning-of-the-month Official Ratings List.

It is advised that directors decide ahead of time and advertise which
method they prefer, and stick with it, so that players know what to
expect. For some tourneys it is more advantageous to use one, and for
other tournaments the other is more preferable. It mostly depends on
tourney format, number of players, director's time constraints... etc.

If a director is using recently-posted cross-tables, but is not actively
researching every recent tournament result for every player's most
up-to-date, they are advised to set a time deadline after which they will
NOT respond to queries for ratings adjustment based on up-to-date cross-tables
(an hour before the tourney, 2 hr., a day, etc).

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