Affiliate Develops Tournament Registration Software

Bloomington Normal Area Scholastic Chess (BNASC), and ICA affiliate, is sharing its tournament registration software with any interested chess club or tournament organizer who would like to use it. A copy of the software is available for your review and use at www.register4chess.com. BNASC has been using the tournament registration software to help run weekly winter tournaments for several years and it is a great time saver for the organizer of the tournament. The software enables online registration for team and individual events and produces a text file which can easily be imported into WinTD software. For the organizer, it means usually creating a set of tournament files for events of 200+ players in less than an hour which used to take the organizer several hours to make individual entries in WinTD.

Using the BNASC Tournament Registration software entails four simple tasks.

1. Create a team
this step gathers information such as Team Name, Team Code, and Coaches' Contact information.

2. Add members to your team
after clicking on this option, you click on the team you wish to add members to, then the link above the word "Primary Contact" which says "Add Team Member" (for adult tournaments, make everyone a 12th grader, also notice link to USCF member services area)

3. Add or Edit an event
allows you to enter important information about your event - the most important fields here are probably "Date", "Registration End Date" and "Registration End Time". After the Date has passed - Tournament is no longer displayed, and after the Registration End Date and Time - tournament registration is disabled.

4. Register Members of your team for an Event
This option is especially handy for coaches. After entering player information one time, entering players in tournaments is as simple as selecting the team from a drop down box - clicking on the tournament you wish to enter, checking the box of the players you wish to enter, selecting a section, for each player, click on Save. It is important to not deselect players each time you make your team entry or change entries - as the last time you "save", only those players selected will remain selected.

And the greatest feature of the software on the tournament registration page http://www.register4chess.com/eventRegistrationStep1.php is the small little blue link below the "Roster" banner. This link produces a text file that can be saved and imported directly into WinTD.

Try it out - play with the site - send your suggestions on enhancement to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Planned enhancements include coach registration - site security, online payment option. If you have a web site with MySQL db available and would like an instance of the site to host for your club- BNASC will make the software available at no charge (find a chess organization to make a donation to) - contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..