The below is a summary of matters discussed during the NAF Committee Meeting in August 2014.
1 Opening and welcome
– Present: Beppe, Geggster, Lycos, Nate and Dave. First meeting to be held over Skype chat rather than Skype calling due to connection issues. Apologies from other members
2 Other points for the agenda
3 President
– World Cup 2015
Tournament rules – Nate’s proposal of changes to the rules is discussed and a vote is agreed as to whether the rules remain the same or are altered to allow tiering (to help the weaker races). To vote: Nate, Paul, Mike and DutchDave. Beppe will have casting vote. Vote to take place in coming week.
– Software: Beppe and Lycos will mail Valdric and get him into contact with the programmer to make sure our wishes are all added to the programms, both for the WC as to replace Score!
4 League director
5 Membership director
– Reception to the new gift has been overwhelmingly positive.
– The number of registration issues and ‘where is my gift?’ emails is much less this year than last.
– The issue with linking new members to their country appears to be solved (example: new members from New Zealand were having their stats show up with Australia’s rankings instead of New Zealand’s). If there are still issues with this, please let me know.
– MD is collecting issues and features that would help the membership to manage the new website. He’ll contact us soon with more specific questions.
6 Operations director
7 Tournament Director
– There is the possibility of hosting NAF events online. Some initial conversations have been had. We also briefly talk about the future of BB and realize that we will need an Online Director sooner than later.
8 Treasurer – no updates at this time.
9 Next meeting
– 5th of October
The below is a summary of matters discussed during the NAF Committee Meeting in July 2014.
Opening
– welcome by Dave
Present:
Beppe, DutchDave, Nate, Mike, Paul .Apologies from Lycos & Craig
President
– WC software is a big priority. The WC III cannot use the WC II’s program and score won’t be good either as it doesn’t support multiple users entering results at the same time. Beppe will explore the possibilities to get a program created (together with the WC team) but it’s looking expensive. We need to know exactly what it will cost, then we can make a decision. We move that to the next meeting OR earlier should we get information sooner.
Treasurer
– cost of postage has increased a lot. The overall increase isn’t known yet, but we’ll know this at the end of the year. Mike explains the difference will be smaller in the US as the internal postage won’t change.
– Dice designs for events (created by SSB) to go to Nate and/or Rewards Committee for Tournament use
– Brendan asked whether we should build a fund / budget for each year that tournament organizers and other members can apply to improve their event/league/something BB related. This was discussed and we decide to move the decision to a later date.
TD
– Official ruling on concessions? We decide a concession is a game that was started and where one of the coaches left the game for whatever reason. A game that was never started can never get into the database. All agree
– trophy requirements. What standards are required to be able to give out a trophy? We decide that it’s 4 rounds and at least 12 coaches or 3 rounds and at least 24 coaches.
– Tournament Series Committee is under creation.
– staff changes; some RTOs have been replaced as they weren’t active anymore or wanted to drop the job. Update to go out.
Events Manager
– World Cup
World Cup software
– Rules