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anybody know what date the new grades will come out exactly?

This may help.

so we have a draft list then the proper list comes out end of August so the Draft list will be pointless?

Well, the draft has been delayed too. We'll have it by August 10th. I wouldn't expect it on the website by the end of August.

Ian Lamb wrote:So we have a draft list then the proper list comes out end of August so the Draft list will be pointless?

It's never really a draft list, more a list that may have minor corrections but yes the end of August is the official one that becomes the printed version

Of course all bets may be off with this years one

Alex Holowczak wrote:Well, the draft has been delayed too. We'll have it by August 10th. I wouldn't expect it on the website by the end of August.

I would as I am doing it, weekend of 8th, 9th should be a go - but yes corrections are possible until the end of that month

Carl Hibbard wrote:

Alex Holowczak wrote:Well, the draft has been delayed too. We'll have it by August 10th. I wouldn't expect it on the website by the end of August.

I would as I am doing it, weekend of 8th, 9th should be a go - but yes corrections are possible until the end of that month

I see. I assumed the draft would be another e-mail job and when there are no problems it'd be put up on the site - I didn't realise the draft is what is put on the site.

can we expect huge corrections in the list at the end of August or not?

Ian Lamb wrote:can we expect huge corrections in the list at the end of August or not?

Under normal circumstances, in recent years, the grading administrators have been very successful in collecting and processing the season's results at the first attempt and changes between the "provisional" and final lists have been limited.

For this season though, they are breaking the historic continuity of the grades and introducing as yet undocumented changes to the calculation methods. Your guess is as good as mine as to whether the "provisional" grades will be "correct" and seen to be correct.

in the note they posted recently there now sees to be a problem with the junior grades and computers is there any more news about this as on the ecf website its very vague.And does not go in to much detail about it.