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Clocks (lengthy)
Posted By: Coolrey In Response To: Clocks (lengthy) (Stick)
Date: Friday, 17 October 2008, at 1:05 p.m.
Stick said: If the route of the directors purchasing and lugging the clocks around is chosen I agree that transporting them from one tourney to the next could be a bit aggravating. I would volunteer myself to help lug them around, noting that I am in a decent spot for Midwest events and drive to a fair few of them. (I could also be persuaded to drive to more if I was hauling around clocks)
My response: I doubt if TDs transporting clocks to their event is more of an imposition that ME bringing mine, (assuming I had one). The tournament is held in the host city, which means they can throw a box in their van/car and bring the clocks. Local players/volunteers can help.
I travel with a bg board in my suitcase now, my laptop, and a small carry on bag in which I toss my digital camera, Rx's, and personal items in case they lose my bag [again]. Adding even something as small as a chess clock to my load would be cumbersome and awkward... But here is a NEW idea:
I might be one of those guys who would donate money to the clock cause, (like a benji I won off Stick last week, hehe), but what IF:
Those interested contributed the price of the preferred style of clock. Does CJC have access to them, or some other BG/chess player. This would tend to standardize ABT clocks if they were all the same kind.
If they are bought en masse, they also might be cheaper. Then, lets say we got 32 of them or so... maybe 40. I'd volunteer to use my credit card and take donations. Those who didn't contribute to the cause might be charged $1 rental fee for a match to go towards clock maintenance/replacement. That way I will get FF miles and fly out to beat you @ some later date for free.
The ABT schedule is published in advance, by like a year. Find a suitable shipping container that is re-usable and ship the clocks to the next venue. There will be ample time for them to arrive at Pittsburgh when NYC is done with em, or whatever. My clock, which I don't wanna lug from CA to NYC or NC, will be among them... and by virtue of the fact that I have contributed I will have a clock available to me at an upcoming event and if I don't show up someone else will be using it. Make the winner of the last event pay the shipping fees, (unless he buys DINNER for the staff, of course).
Just to stop reading all these posts about: I'd like 3 more seconds, could we try that??? I'd be willing to put up $1000 or whatever the hell it would cost for 40 clocks. Let me do some shopping, just tell me where! Those with integrity can send me some money and those that don't I will approach at the next event... Whatever works. I would do that or contribute in whatever way the general consensus deems sensible for the good of Backgammon, despite the fact that I have been banned from two tournaments this year.
Maybe half a dozen other players around the country would store like 10 clocks each, a number that is more manageable to ship... then two or three of them would send theirs to the next TD in the upcoming city... If 6 guys have 10, 3 of them send theirs to Peoria, and the other 3 send theirs to Vegas and the TD at Peoria forwards the clocks back to the original "owner" or Vegas, whichever makes sense?
Just thinkin out loud here.
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