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#1 Bigs Mar 22, 2009 22:25:30	My apologize as I am sure this has been covered in a thread somewhere, but the search function on the site is acting flakey for me. I had 5 players at one of my PH2GD tables and all of them had RPGA #'s. When I got the list of the numbers from the players, 2 of them had numbers that didn't look right. They were shorter then the standard 10 digit DCI #'s I sign new players up with. When I asked them about them, they stated they were old players from way back in the day and that I should just add a 60 to the front of their numbers. Not knowing WTF they were talking about, I just nodded dumbly and took the numbers. Now that I am trying to report the event, I can't get either number of theirs to work. One of them gave me an 8 digit number and the other gave me a 5 digit number. Is there something I should be doing to try and get these numbers to work when reporting? Both players were from the city (roughly 100 miles away) and I have no way of contacting them. Is that session just screwed for reporting? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
#2 kenobi65 Mar 22, 2009 23:01:42	Those are just older RPGA numbers. When they merged the RPGA and DCI databases last summer, RPGA numbers were converted to 9-digit numbers. To make that conversion, you add a "1" in front of the old RPGA number, then as many "0"s as needed to make it a 9-digit number. (The "10th digit" is a control number, but you don't need to actually enter it in for the system to recognize the number.) So, for the 8-digit number, put a 1 in front of it, and see if it works. (If the old 8-digit number hadn't been "activated" in the RPGA database previously, it may not work, and you may need to get a new DCI/RPGA number for that person). For the 5-digit number, add "1000" in front of it, and that should work. (That one is a very old RPGA number, probably issued in the 1980s. )
#3 kinevon Mar 23, 2009 0:22:36	Also, it is possible that they are actual DCI numbers, and usable without adding any extra digits at the beginning, so check them that way, as well, and see if the name that comes up, in either case, matches the players names.