Anonymous form submissions

I have events manger installed on a multi-site network subsite here:
https://sis.utk.edu/meetingrooms/request

and it works fine.

However the same setup does not work here
https://new.cci.utk.edu/scl/request

I get:

Unauthorized Access

You do not have the rights to manage this Event.

Both are running Events Manager 5.9.5

The working site has this:
Allow anonymous event submissions? Yes No
Would you like to allow users to submit bookings anonymously? If so, you can use the new [event_form] shortcode or em_event_form() template tag with this enabled.
Guest Default User
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Please add a User ID. Events require a user to own them. In order to allow events to be submitted anonymously you need to assign that event a specific user. We recommend you create a “Anonymous” subscriber with a very good password and use that. Guests will have the same event permissions as this user when submitting.

The non working site is slightly different and gives me a user dropdown list.

Allow anonymous event submissions? Yes No
Would you like to allow users to submit bookings anonymously? If so, you can use the new [event_form] shortcode or em_event_form() template tag with this enabled.
Guest Default User
Events require a user to own them. In order to allow events to be submitted anonymously you need to assign that event a specific user. We recommend you create a “Anonymous” subscriber with a very good password and use that. Guests will have the same event permissions as this user when submitting.

Any ideas why the non working site doesn’t work and why it gives me different options?