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TimG, on Aug 7 2004, 08:56 AM, said:
jtfanclub, on Aug 6 2004, 06:56 PM, said:
hrothgar, on Aug 5 2004, 11:32 AM, said:
Popular does not equate to correct...
I could not disagree more. BBO tournements are here for one purpose only- to entertain people. The more people you entertain, better you're doing, and the more correctly you're doing it.
This, to me, is a short-sighted position. Just because you are entertaining as many insiders as you can, does not mean you are promoting the long-term interests of your endeavor.
True enough, if you're Fred or Uday.
But if you're a tournement director, it's not your job to think about the long term interests of the endeavor. It's your job to run fun tournements that attract people to BBO, and retain those that are there. If people want to play in 'official' tournements, they can play in the ACBL-certified ones, and know that your TDs are trained by the ACBL. I assume at some point the WBF will do the same, even if it's only certifying that certain players are indeed WBF TDs.
Speaking of which, I would love it if they had ACBL Tournement Director training classes on BBO. Has anybody asked the ACBL if they'd be interested in doing this? You'd still have to go to a club to take the test, of course.