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It's more about joined up thinking and letting the various technologies be responsible for passing information from A-B not pushing that burden onto TDs. The levy and tracking associated with it is just one more little bit of grit in the process of running a tournament - not a major pain but as you know all the little annoyances slowly add up,<div><br>Richard</div><div><br></div><div class="mb_sig"></div><blockquote class='history_container' type='cite' style='border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px; margin-top:20px; margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;'>
<p style='color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;'>On 25/09/2023 16:38:14, Gerry Gavigan <gerry@gavigan.me.uk> wrote:</p><div style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif'>
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On 25/09/2023 17:25 BST Richard Wheeldon via tournament-org <tournament-org@lists.britgo.org> wrote:
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Would be a lot more straightforward if we could (a) get a registration system that tracks membership AND (b) is tied into godraw so that that status is passed through. If that was simply a field on the EGD and the EGD PIN was the thing passed through that'd be great for 95% of entries. The remaining 5% will always cause more trouble than the other 95% put together - that's just life,
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I understand your point but suggest that your proposal could become a leviathan. On the odd occasion when you are not running the draw at LGC I use openGotha (but might take a look at MacMahon) because
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(a) I don't want to risk an updated WINE no longer running godraw
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(b) I find openGotha more intuitive
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Feeding from Jenny's well made point about not stressing out TDs, compelling this or that draw programme should be a no-no (and of course openGotha pulls down the EGD automatically which brings other benefits).
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A centrally administered numbered BGA membership system covers most of your ground, I think.
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Gerry
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