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Cyprus brackets, progress, results?--easy fix
Posted By: RobertFontaine In Response To: Cyprus brackets, progress, results?--easy fix (Stick)
Date: Saturday, 7 November 2015, at 9:57 p.m.
imo... The bigger stumbling block (or maybe it's the same one or similar is time/commitment).
It's easy to get the darn thing organized all it takes is a few people willing to dedicate every waking moment to the task while listening to the whining, complaining and second guessing of people who are sure they could do it better but aren't really interested in doing it at all :)
Today tournament players are playing wherever they can find a tournament without much concern as to who the organizing body is.
Shared elo, rules, tournament sheets, web site for posting standings, tournament sheets etc should provide direct savings in time and effort to tournament directors. Set Up a common web site where a director can generate and post his brackets easily and provide both the directors and players with some nice graphs and tables and it's not a hard value proposition.
Work Less, Make customers happier, profit.
Not all things require 200$ consulting fees. Rather than establishing the end all and be all:
First steps are to: -establish a central repository of shared assets. -make them reusable -communicate (not hard everyone at least lurks here or on the german website)
At a higher level is how do we make Backgammon more successful as Sport/Game ala Chess or Go.
How do we take the initial assets and leverage them into an organization or at least an Association (which might make more sense - national organizations with voting into the association sort of thing).
How do we leverage the association to establish backgammon as an educational tool: probabilities, statistics, machine learning, decision making, numeracy ; an "e-sport"
How do we use the sexiness of the gambling to bring legitimacy to the intellectual aspects of the game entering the morality debate pr being tied to self destructive behaviors.
How did we get from yammerings on the internet to the usbgf? It seems to have taken us a good way of the distance and many other countries have done similar things at this point. Several countries are well in advance of the US.. ala Denmark/Japan(?).
The USBGF is having a hard time just keeping their website maintained at this point and getting out the magazine.
More volunteer hours in my mind are critical for moving this forward.
Cash required? Maybe but mostly it's labour hours. To my mind the current of Backgammon Leadership have assets (knowledge/training/membership) that can be used in trade for labour hours. An NPO has to be a little creative.
To my mind this requires our current leadership to take the inititive. I believe most people would feel awkward trying to initiate any of these things without it coming from the organizations that they already feel that they are part of.
Mission, Vision, Goals, Objectives... Execution.
Not really sure where these things are as I am clearly on the outside and the windows looking in are pretty dirty but a small number of people have done a tremendous amount of work in the last couple of years. Taking it further probably needs a few more people.
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