[tournament-org] Trigantius2020

[Geoff Kaniuk]

There were a few novel features in the tournament this year, so I 
thought to report them here.

BGA PRINTER
I had a major problem with the BGA printer the night before the 
tournament.  It refused to print and claimed it could not feed the 
paper.  I had to revert to my own laptop and desktop printer.

DIY REGISTRATION
The diy registration system worked well, leaving me free to attend to 
other matters. The main issue was responding to Corona by re-arranging 
the tables to create more space between players.  This did lead to a 
delay in the start time of about 20 mins. All players did pay at the end 
of their first game and there were only a few corrections needed.

MEMBERSHIP
There were 17 players not a member of BGA, but 5 of these renewed on the 
day.

TIMING
The Fischer time settings of 61 + 7' per move did improve timekeeping, 
but even so there were still a very few players who did manage games 
much longer than 2.5 hours.  Unfortunately the clocks do not record the 
number of moves.  We need number of move data in order to  set Fischer 
time parameters sensibly.

-- 
Geoff

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