Aerial Attack wrote:OPie,
You bring up some valid points. The solution would be if the Editor in Chief of the Newsletter was also a Tournament Director.
As it is now, anyone can create a thread about a new tournament at any time. Once that tourney is filled, they ask a TD for privileges. This is a good system and provides a great amount of flexibility (a little less work for the TD too).
A potential new system (going back to the tiered
Tournament Organizer thread) would be that TOs submit their ideas to a Tournament Director in advance. The TDs could then gauge how many potential people the different tournaments would require. If they had a huge tournament (say 256 players), that might be the only one they release for 2 days. On the other hand, if they had three Point Grabbers (16 players each) - they could release all three on the same day.
The newsletter would have the dates (and TOs, size, maps, themes, etc.) for all tournaments to be released in the next two weeks.
I realize that this is an incredible increase in responsibility for Tournament Directors.
Hmmmm....this is an interesting idea you have here Aerial Attack. I wonder what the actual Tournament Directors would think of such a thing. I don't believe that any of them at the moment would have the time to take on such a project, but I can see how a future Tournament Director could be created to have this role specifically. Perhaps they could even be given a different title or something to symbolize the distinction.
Having access to the tournament information for that person would be relatively easy. No matter which Director receives the tournament privilege request they could easily forward it along to the new Director in charge of said newsletter.
I'm not sure that having a system installed where prior permission to create the thread would be all that good. It's hard enough to find a good tournament organizer at the moment and you wouldn't want to scare off the potential new ones with extra red tape. However, I don't think that really matters. If there was a Tournament Director in place to specifically work on this project it shouldn't be a problem.
I myself would suggest having new "Tournament Assistants" or something along those lines that would specifically have the duties of:
1. Encouraging Tournament Organizers
2. Running official tournaments (perhaps 2 each at time)
3. Keeping a "Stickied Newsletter" updated on a regular basis.
Of course, what information that newsletter should include would be interesting to discuss. It is easy enough to see the records for individual players in the respective tournament threads. Or at least it is when the tournament organizer knows what they are doing. I think information that would be worthwhile would be:
1. Currently Active Tournaments (including status)
2. Completed Tournament Hall of Fame (list names of winners)
3. Upcoming Tournaments (brief description of format and length)
4. Tournaments seeking players (brief description of format and length)
Now, I know there was a similar system in place not that long ago because I have had some discussion with AK_iceman about it. The main reason it no longer exists is because of the difficulty in keeping the records up to date. It was time consuming and the Tournament Directors had a hard time finding the information they needed due to the high percentage of abandoned tournaments.
In any light, if something were to be created it would have to be from this point on as going back to find all the old information would be tough. Although, it could be added over time as it was dug up from the depths of wherever it is.
