Which is somewhat at odds with the information on the ECF website:Roger de Coverly wrote:Without saying it directly, he seems to imply that 1st January grades will be used regardless.
http://www.sccu.ndo.co.uk/grad.htm
andIf a league doesn't report at all till the end of the season its games will still be graded, but they will all go into the second halfyear.
How will adjournments and adjudications be treated?
A game which is adjourned (or pending adjudication) at the halfyear cutoff obviously cannot be reported in the interim batch, and it will not go into the first halfyear's grading, even retrospectively. It goes in the second halfyear whatever date the grader attaches to it.
The same will apply to any game from the first halfyear which slips the net for whatever reason and gets reported late.
"In a game list, the opponent’s grade is given with each game. In principle this is his grade at the time of the game: the grade which was, or will be, used in calculating your next grade." (followed by some comments on exceptions for juniors and ungraded players).