Tournament Director Training - Club Director Courses
Tournament Directors are needed at every level of the organised bridge game. Highly expert directors are needed to run international and national events, but at the other end of the spectrum even the smallest club game needs a director to be in control and sort out any problems that may arise.
The English Bridge Union has a panel of directors for national events.
This is headed by Chief TD, Max Bavin, and consists of a hierarchy of lesser directors - the familiar maroon-jacketed figures you see when attending any national event - from National Director down to Trainee.
Selection to the panel is by invitation only, but is made from the body of trained and qualified directors at County level, who in turn are drawn from the large number of qualified Club Directors. Training and an assessment process for both club and county directors is provided through the EBU Education Department.
Four one-day courses are available for those who
wish to become qualified Club Directors. These are scheduled to
take place across the country in different locations each year,
as far as possible in line with demand. This year the courses have
been thoroughly reviewed and the content has been changed to reflect
current needs. They have been re-launched with new titles as follows:
Club Directing - Essentials. This
covers the role of the Club Director, the basics of movements and
scoring and an introduction to the Law Book. There is now a greater
emphasis on people-handling issues and the skills needed to ensure
a harmonious and happy atmosphere is maintained within the Club
duplicate. Correspondingly, there is less emphasis on scoring, as
even the smallest club usually now uses computer scoring. Players
new to directing are now strongly recommended to attend this course
as the first in the series.
Club Directing - Book Rulings.
This workshop explains how to deal with all the everyday problems
which arise at the table - revokes, leads out of turn, insufficient
bids and so on, using lots of simulations and role-playing to give
valuable practice in handling rulings.
Club Directing - Judgment Rulings. This course deals with the trickier rulings, where you can't usually
make an automatic decision but need to exercise judgement. Though
arising less frequently in most clubs, judgement rulings can cause
much bigger problems than book rulings and the club director must
know how to handle them correctly.
Club Directing - Assessment. Though
also giving lots of useful practice in rulings, this day is primarily
to assess performance, successful participants being awarded a Club
Director's Certificate of Competence. A new 'Pass with Distinction'
is being introduced this year for those who do particularly well
on the Assessment course, to recognise high levels of performance.
To achieve a Distinction, participants will need to show a good
attitude towards players and the right way of approaching the table,
as well as a good knowledge of the Law book.
This course is once again available as an online course. There are 40 TD
situations to consider. Click here to go to the online Course
Click on each course name for further details. Go to Course
Schedules to see when courses are running and to book places.
If no courses are available to suit you, or you believe there is
demand in your area which has not been met, we would be happy to
set up additional courses as needed.
Please call Peter Jordan,Tel: 01296 317203· fax: 01296 317220; or email: peter@ebu.co.uk to pursue this
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