[tournament-org] Club names

[Neil Sandford]

This discussion originated in a conversation with Geoff K when I was having problems with versioning of GoDraw and it relates to the 'No Club' scenario ( should we encourage or discourage the use of 'no club' if the player has got a club). The question I would like discussed is this:

Who is responsible for selecting the club name to be used for registration and where does that club name come from? A peek inside GoPlayers.gdi and GoClubCode.gdi will make this point clearer when you find clubs called 'Poznam' and 'Silver Springs' and even 'CODE13Ma' there (It turns out that is Marseilles, not Manchester, but my guess is CODELon is London). I would not fancy giving tournament directors (TDs) the ability to select a British club name from either of those sources.

The players register their own club info when they enter a tournament (unless the TD is using the Tourman form that extracts information from the EGD)

That club info can be altered by the TD.

It can also be altered by Geoff in his role looking after communication between TDs and EGD.

And, finally, because there is a field in the form that Geoff uses called Country it seems that he occasionally gets to deal with members of Marseilles Go Club, because the player used that field to submit their Nationality (UK) at an Italian congress but the field is supposed to be for the country where the tournament was held. And their club is in France.

Finally, there is nothing to allow all this information to be synced - if a Go club tells me that they have changed their name and want it changed on britgo.org, there is no way of propagating that knowledge to other future TDs or the historical record that Geoff has. So, we frequently find Somewhere Town and Somewhere (and possibly Somewhere University) being used interchangeably.

Any initial thoughts?

Neil