Search results for:

Sweet! Possibly worth noting that 2012 NS reqs are not final yet (but hopefully soon and should have minimal impact on what will undoubtedly be an awesome tournament).

Some form of wizardry.

I remember them being distinctly unreasonable last time.

Advantage of being an IT professional with friends in the industry?

If that is your real name...

"JonoMarshall"

It's just me merging. You want them left alone, no problem.

I also havent merged anything.. i reckon it was aufbruch

I should delete this post.

In order to avoid potential conflict, here's a (very rough, extremely liable to change) schedule:

May - Cambridge (requested pre-June since losing the space)
June - Brighton
July - Euros
August - Worlds/London Open
September - Manchester

The only threads I ever merge are Bill's ones.

Good stuff.

We'll be meeting this weekend to talk about this year's National Series. I've collected feedback from many of last year's event organisers but if anyone has anything they would like to be considered, feel free to PM me. Hopefully there will be concrete info next week.

The world isn't ready for you, so we contain you within this thread.

Pretty sure we gave you a special thread for stuff like this.

I wasn't sure that would scan well in Hungarian but...

Az, hogy az őrült, aki fejét ököllel Kézimunka Gary az arca?

Rob said MCR wanted none of the work and all of the glory so wouldn't be taking it on, hence it won't happen?

Very unlikely that UK Champs will be part of the NS in 2012.

Like I said, nothing's been decided regarding this year's format/structure/rules etc. I think it's jumping the gun a bit to say it is/isn't a NS event.

Hopefully over the next few weeks.

Was there a minimum number of places to make things NS last year?

Yes, 32.

From the NS thread:

"All National Series tournaments will:

1.Be able to handle a minimum of 32 teams
2.Take place on minimum of 1 court over 2 days or 2 courts over 1 day
3.Use a format that involves seeded Swiss Rounds and an elimination phase
4.Allow each team to play a minimum of 4 games
5.Use a pre-approved ruleset
6.Use refs that have read the rulebook, reffing guidelines and been briefed by the head ref"

NS COMM (if we really have to call it that) are the few people that replied when I asked if anyone was interested in helping out in getting a NS off the ground. This consisted of myself, Cohen, Mrak and Lebowski. Bill then came aboard as head ref (and I assume has now stepped down).

If anyone wants to be involved for 2012, then post here or let me know.

As far as applying for a NS round, what happened last year is we got in touch with a few cities and said we 'we're trying to get a NS off the ground and Would be you be interested in hosting a tournament that met specific standards?' As far as this year goes, nothing has been set in stone so if a scene was interested in hosting a NS event they should just say so here and we can take note.

Nothing has currently been set in stone about the NS for this year. There will invariably be some tweaking of the format/rulebook, so I honestly couldn't say yet whether this is a NS event or not (assuming the NS for 2012 continues to aim for a consistent tournament structure/rulebook).

This is not a question of ownership.

The NS was started with very specific aims, (one of which was the idea of helping to lay the groundwork for a UK association). I believe the 2011 NS did everything it set out to do and as one of the many, many people involved in the NS, I am keen to see it continue to grow and prosper. I would just like to know exactly what's happening with something I feel strongly invested in since there are NS tournaments being advertised and the LHBPA have proposed to hand over control of the event to an organisation that doesn't yet exist.

I don't think this is particularly audacious of me?

Definitely not semantics. If it's an LHBPA event then it can get given away in a meeting. If it isn't, the LHBPA has no right to give away control of something I worked on and continued to work on under the obvious misapprehension I was still involved.

The National Series was proposed to be passed to the UKHBPA to deal with I think.

Please expand on this. The National Series is not an LHBPA event and I haven't spoken to anyone who worked on the NS about this?

Your attitude stinks worse than your set.

I've said it in the LHBPA thread but I'm with Rik. Rules debates should be public.