Merry Christmas from the USTA? Denied appeals now granted

The Great Southern Bump of 2019 resulted in a lot of men from the Southern section being bumped up when year-end ratings came out.  Some of these bump ups were frankly very questionable, it seems the USTA did a blanket adjustment to several levels of players, and naturally quite a few players felt the bump up wasn't appropriate and tried to appeal back down.

Most of what I heard is that there were very few appeals down granted, but yesterday I heard from several folks that e-mails from the USTA had been sent to some players with the following message:

We recently found a problem with our auto-appeal system. In our investigation of the issue, we found that you may have attempted an appeal and may have been impacted. The problem has been resolved, and if desired, your automatic appeal can be attempted again.

At least some of these players appealed again and this time it was granted!

I have no idea what the problem was or what was done to fix it, but it appears just in time for Christmas, the USTA is granting appeals that were not originally granted.

So, if you had your appeal denied, perhaps you can try again, and if it is now granted, please let me know with a comment here or on Facebook or by dropping me a note at ratings@teravation.net.  The more reports I get, the more I can do to try to figure out a pattern or what happened.

Merry Christmas!