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| − | NASPA maintains its [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/tourneys/calendar.html calendar] of
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| − | sanctioned tournaments as an information resource for its members. Registered directors
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| − | * the director’s membership expires after the end of the planned event
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| − | * For a multi-day event, no other events are already sanctioned within two weekends and 200 miles of the planned event. For a one-day event, no other one-day events are already sanctioned on the same day within 200 miles of the planned event, and no other multi-day events are already sanctioned on the same weekend within 200 miles of the planned event.
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| − | * the application is submitted eight weeks before the planned event
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| − | Furthermore, unless there are exceptional circumstances and permission is obtained in advance,
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| − | * each division has at least four players
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| − | * each division has at least two rated players
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| − | Local Club Tournaments (LCT), which are 1/3-rated, do not require advance sanctioning and are not listed in the calendar. LCT's have the same Player Participation fee as sanctioned Open Rated Tournaments.
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| | == Tools == | | == Tools == |
Revision as of 15:22, 18 June 2009
The Tournament Committee is a NASPA committee established to
supervise sanctioned North American SCRABBLE tournaments.
To contact the Tournament Committee send an email to naspa-tourney@yahoogroups.com.
Current Members
It currently consists of the following:
New members are welcome.
Agenda
The committee has the following items on its agenda:
- Decide on a certification process for tournament directors in coordination with a similar process for club directors being developed by the Club Committee
- Debate whether certification can be suspended for directors who take longer than a week to submit ratings data
- Liaise with the WESPA Tournament Committee
- Review the existing criteria for sanctioning tournaments, consider in particular whether there should be limits on the number of events a director can list or how far in advance an event may be listed; prepare options for the Advisory Board to choose from
- On an ongoing basis, supervise tournament directors, including
- Maintaining the tournament calendar
- Receiving and processing incident reports, passing them up to the Advisory Board as necessary
- Making sure that tournament directors receive the news and information they need to perform their function
- Overseeing the mentor/apprentice system when it is implemented
Tools
The committee has access to the following web tools: