Under the aegis of the CCA Villahermosa Training Centre a Tournament Management Seminar was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on April 21^th-26^th 2008.

The aim of the Seminar was to address the problems some Federations have in reporting tournaments results to meet FIDE title and rating requirements.

CCA CACDEC assisted the Argentina Federation with a budget to provide free accomodation and meals for all participants and lecturers.

The Seminar was introduced by IA Jorge Vega, Continental President for America who thanked FIDE, the CACDEC Chairman and the Argentine Chess Federation for making the Seminar possible.

IA Santiago Garcia from Mexico who used the Swiss-Manager and Swiss 55 programs very ably conducted the Seminar which was well received by arbiters from Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.

 The full list of attendees are:

Argentina: AI Marcelo Hermida, AI Luis Scalise, AI Mario Zilli, AF Víctor Esteban, AF Enrique Scarella, AN Alfredo Gaal, AN Raúl Vignoles, AN Jose Scalise, NA Silvio Reneé, Ines Gomez, AN Juan José Huergo, AN José Verdejo, Ramiro Troilo

Uruguay: Jorge Bermúdez, Ruben Hipogrosso

Paraguay: AI Francisco Ochelli, Miguel Ángel Vargas

Chile: Cristian Estrada, Jorge Valenzuela, Claudio Rosales

Perú: Luis Degregori, Jorge Soto

Bolivia: Alfonso Ferrufino.