[tournament-org] TrigantiusLessonII

[Francis Roads]

What can go wrong? Murphy's Law predicts the following scenario:

Player A: I know I may be a bit late; please will you fill in my ticket for
me if I'm not there when you arrive?
Player B: OK
Player A is now seriously delayed and misses the start of Round 1, or maybe
doesn't turn up at all. Player A's opponent expresses disappointment to the
TD.

Francis (becoming cynical in my old age☺.)

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On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 23:07, Geoff Kaniuk via tournament-org <
tournament-org at lists.britgo.org> wrote:

> Thanks for the comments on the late surge. One important feature of
> Trigantius is that we have an entry limit of 80, and this may well
> indicate a solution.
>
> Lesson II Registration Bottleneck
>
> One idea that was put forward at the meal after the tournament is to
> have two parallel registration streams. This should halve the
> registration time, but it comes at a cost. Each desk requires two people
> - one to identify the player and the fee, and the other to collect the
> cash and deal with the change. So one would need to find 4 volunteers
> for this method.
>
> Another possibility is to remove the bottleneck entirely, by letting
> players self-register. Assuming most players are pre-registered, the
> idea is this:
>
> A. On arrival, a player collects his or her ticket.  The ticket contains
> the usual details including the fee to be paid. The ticket is placed in
> the 'registration box'.  Late arrivals fill in their own ticket. So
> there is no load on organisers having to identify players.
>
> B. The draw for round 1 is done on the basis of the tickets collected.
>
> C. Now, when players finish their games they go to the cashier to pay.
>
> This means that registration can start virtually immediately the venue
> doors are opened.
>
> Secondly, collection of the entry fee is spread over a much longer and
> less fraught period.
>
> What can go wrong?
>
> --
> Geoff
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