@Buzz-Meeks
That happened to me too.
When I got to a tournament some guy said I had to pay state dues.
Also I joined a correspondence tournament which was classified as a postal tournament but I never got anything in the mail so I assumed it takes time to get a tournament going.
Well I eventually looked at my stats to see my rating after a real tournament and I found out my correspondence rating was really low due to timeouts.
Apparently they said it was ok for the postal tournament to use email and all of my games were timed out and counted as losses.
I paid for a postal tournament.
I did not agree to a server tournament and not an email tournament.
Haven't bought a membership since.