[tournament-org] Consultation on the BGA Levy

[Gerry Gavigan]

As with single track railway working or all sensible databases before computers got in the way - either you have got a physical token or you can't continue.
 
I like those sorts of systems.
 
No room for discussion or error: no token "do not pass Go do pay levy"*
 
Gerry
 
*I'm quite pleased with that one
 
 
 

> On 25/09/2023 17:44 BST Richard Wheeldon <richard at rswheeldon.com> wrote:
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> It's more about joined up thinking and letting the various technologies be responsible for passing information from A-B not pushing that burden onto TDs. The levy and tracking associated with it is just one more little bit of grit in the process of running a tournament - not a major pain but as you know all the little annoyances slowly add up,
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> > On 25/09/2023 16:38:14, Gerry Gavigan <gerry at gavigan.me.uk> wrote:
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> > > On 25/09/2023 17:25 BST Richard Wheeldon via tournament-org <tournament-org at lists.britgo.org> wrote:
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> > > Would be a lot more straightforward if we could (a) get a registration system that tracks membership AND (b) is tied into godraw so that that status is passed through. If that was simply a field on the EGD and the EGD PIN was the thing passed through that'd be great for 95% of entries. The remaining 5% will always cause more trouble than the other 95% put together - that's just life,
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> > I understand your point but suggest that your proposal could become a leviathan. On the odd occasion when you are not running the draw at LGC I use openGotha (but might take a look at MacMahon) because 
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> > (a) I don't want to risk an updated WINE no longer running godraw
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> > Feeding from Jenny's well made point about not stressing out TDs, compelling this or that draw programme should be a no-no (and of course openGotha pulls down the EGD automatically which brings other benefits).
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> > A centrally administered numbered BGA membership system covers most of your ground, I think.
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