Tournament Committee
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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:
- Dallas Johnson (cochair, December 2009 –)
- Andy Saunders (cochair, June 2009 –)
- Carol Dustin
- Joe Edley
- Mary Rhoades
- Rebecca Slivka
- Siri Tillekeratne
The Tournament Committee is currently capped at 9 members (including ex officio members).
Agenda
The committee has the following items on its agenda:
- Determine term lengths for Tournament Committee members, in addition to the succession process for Tournament Committee members
- 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, and the status of "invitational" events; 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:
