[tournament-org] TournamentEntryGrades

[Geoff Kaniuk]

My issue is not which program you use. By relying on things like wifi, 
and mobiles the, DrawMaster becomes increasing ill prepared for the task 
ahead.

When doing the draw you should be completely self sufficient!

Geoff

33 Ashbury Close, Cambridge CB1 3RW 01223 710582

On 17/06/2019 10:20, Gerry Gavigan wrote:
> 
>> On 17 June 2019 at 10:05 Geoff Kaniuk via tournament-org 
>> <tournament-org at lists.britgo.org <mailto:tournament-org at lists.britgo.org>> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your thoughts Gerry.
>>
>> By that other program - you presumably mean Open Gotha. There is also
>> the original European program MacMahon (sic) which has been converted to
>> JAVA.
>>
>> Some tournaments are run in community halls or churches where there is
>> unlikely to be an ethernet connection or wifi. Also wifi is not
>> necessarily 100% reliable. I regard doing the draw as mission critical
>> and everything possible should be done to minimise disruptions.
>>
>> For this reason GoDraw does not know about the internet.
> 
> I'm not fighting the use of GoDraw (mostly I leave it all to Richard...)
> however, everyone has got a mobile phone and can hot spot their laptop as
> necessary, (even in Barmouth, though you might need a EE SIM).
> 
>>
>> PS. You can run GoDarw in Linux under Wine!
> 
> Yes, I remember you producing that.  It makes it much easier for me to be
> Geoff-compliant should I ever be required to run the draw.
> 
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