[tournament-org] Club names

[Christopher Kirkham]

As membership secretary, I feel I should address Geoff's 2nd question.  Historically, members mostly joined through clubs - and received their Go Journals via club secretaries.  Then it was essential for the membership secretary to know about club affiliations.  Now this has all changed, however.  Interactions with members are direct.  There is nothing about maintaining the membership or distributing the Journal that depends on club information.  So I do not ask for it.  If someone makes a case for this information being important enough for me to collect, store, and update, I guess I could.  But, as I see it, club information is currently only used in tournaments - and not everyone goes to tournaments.  Those that do are happy to supply it - although not always consistently or accurately.  From tournaments, it gets into the ranking list - and Geoff does an excellent job of trying to preserve consistency there.

Cheers,

Chris
----Original message----
Geoff asks:

1. How does a club  affiliate to the BGA and get a name?
2. Why does the BGA not ask new members to specify a club?
3. What club name should be used when one enters a tournament?
4. What club name should be displayed on the ratings list?

I cannot contribute much to 1 and 2. I can only assume that somewhere there is a list of official club names - and maybe the default is the club list shown in http://www.britgo.org/clubs/map