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A Proposal to Start the US Backgammon Federation
Posted By: Phil Simborg In Response To: A Proposal to Start the US Backgammon Federation (David Rockwell)
Date: Wednesday, 7 October 2009, at 10:45 p.m.
David: It is government when a ruling body tells others what to do. If you get together with 4 friends and decide to play in a chouette, don't the 4 of you have to decide what rules you will play by? Don't you have to decide on the stakes? If there is consulting? Who wins the box and how? Is it government if the 4 of you decide? If you don't decide, as a group, you have no rules and you have no game.
This is the same thing. Except instead of 4 players, it's 400 players. All the more reason that we should decide for ourselves what rules we want and how we play the game. Right now, we do have government...we've got the leaders of the ABT telling us what the rules are and how much we pay to enter a tournament and who gets paid and who gets points etc. etc. Isn't that government? Wouldn't you rather have these things set and agreed to by the players, themselves?
How would you like to walk into a room to play in a chou and be told that the players have no say in the rules of the game. I would bet a lot of money you wouldn't play. This is the opposite of government...this is organization.
Right now, who is promoting backgammon to the public in the U.S.? Who is gathering people and ideas and money to try to get clubs going in high schools and colleges? Who speaks for the backgammon community? NOBODY. That's another reason we need an organization.
The market will still decide what tournaments are successful. The idea of the group is not to compete with the current tournament directors or ABT, but to support it and help it grow and help it promote their events and the game.
If you don't like what the group does or what the group stands for, don't join.
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