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    <p>If  lunch is not provided, give detailed recommendations
      concerning the various options.</p>
    <p>Organise a post-event social meal for those still around.</p>
    <p>Toby<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/04/2023 09:40, Richard Wheeldon
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          13px">- If you're able to wait at the end of the tournament to
          help tidy the room up, it can be very helpful</div>
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        <div>And if you're not helping and just hanging around aimlessly
          then you're probably in the way - especially when building
          need to be emptied, locked, etc.</div>
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        <div>Richard</div>
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          <p style="color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;">On 10/04/2023
            17:29:24, Andrew Thurman via tournament-org
            <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:tournament-org@lists.britgo.org"><tournament-org@lists.britgo.org></a> wrote:</p>
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            <div dir="ltr">Hi,
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              <div>Mainly agreeing with things that other people have
                mentioned:</div>
              <div>- Make sure you keep the TD updated with your plans
                (playing or not playing in a round) in plenty of time</div>
              <div>- Read the information you've been given before
                asking questions</div>
              <div>- Double check the game details before you start
                playing (including who's playing which colour, if there
                are any handicaps, etc)</div>
              <div>- Offer to ghost, if you don't mind missing a round
                (most tournaments only need a maximum of 3 ghosts per
                day, so even if everyone offered to ghost most people
                wouldn't need to)<br>
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              <div>- Record your game as soon as possible</div>
              <div>- Try to start your game on time, and (while
                obviously it's OK to use the time limit and overtime)
                try to make sure it doesn't get too delayed, for example
                with discussions before counting up<br>
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              <div>- Try to be ready in the tournament room in advance
                of the draw for rounds you're playing in, so the TD can
                check who's actually present</div>
              <div>- If you need to tell the TD something, try to make
                sure the TD hears it directly - try to avoid asking
                someone to pass the message on</div>
              <div>- If you're able to wait at the end of the tournament
                to help tidy the room up, it can be very helpful</div>
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                <div>- Sign up for tournaments as far in advance as
                  possible, as soon as you know you're planning to
                  attend (talking of which, Durham is coming up in a
                  couple of months...)</div>
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                <div>Go players are, on the whole, very helpful and
                  considerate people - thankfully problems don't happen
                  often!</div>
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                <div>Cheers,</div>
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                <div>Andrew</div>
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              <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 5 Apr 2023 at
                13:50, Colin Williams via tournament-org <<a
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                      <p class="MsoNormal">Folks,</p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal">For the next BGJ but one I’d
                        like to write a short article about the top ten
                        things that a Tournament Director hates, with
                        the intention to help educate or remind people
                        in order to make our life easier.</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">Please let me have any pet
                        peeves you have around people entering or
                        attending tournaments and I’ll try and pull
                        something together.</p>
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                      <p class="MsoNormal">Regards,</p>
                      <p class="MsoNormal">Colin Williams</p>
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