patricks
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A vague aspiration for the vision works for me, as it gives the sense of direction and the fact that it is difficult to test or difficult to achieve doesn't detract from that sense of giving direction.
The word "valued" mi…
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The primary reason for this grouping is that a lot of "taking care of" our current membership (which drives their retention as members) comes from what we communicate with them and how we do that. We do have some communication to non-members but…
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An important part of the Competitions strategy has to be an approach to Laws & Ethics which is robust and commands the respect of the bridge playing population.
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Does the EBU have a duty to get England to win a big European or World Championship some day? In which case delivering the best performing team may take first priority.
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One question which needs to be answered is whether or not running competitions needs to be (a) self financing service, (b) a revenue generating service, or (c) a service subsidised by other activities.
It might be interesting to note that…
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Absolutely right - see https://www.ebu.co.uk/node/3856
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I can see no reason why it should not be standard that every double made in an online game is announced. Even if you have no agreement about a position you can say "not agreed but these usually suggest defending/bidding or whatever". Announcem…
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One possibility currently missing is training people for committee roles such as club or county treasurer? Do such services matter?
In practice clubs tend to refer issues they have directly to the EBU rather than to or via their County A…
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This should be at the top of the list of mission components.
This involves reaching out to non-players – but is that purely a central activity? How much of the promotion task should be taken up by EBED, CBAs and clubs?
Should the …
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The Laws have grown over the year to encompass all of
(a) How to rectify an accidental irregularity (eg a lost card)
(b) How to minimise the chance of an accident (eg placing the board on the table)
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International representation, and in particular success there, is a valuable marketing tool for promotion of the game – so it matters, but the question is how much?
Do we need to link international representation to visibility of the play…
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It is important that to be effective, the processes here are known about, respected and timely.
Is this breakdown giving too much prominence to some items – we could combine 5/6/7 into “Regulating Competitive Bridge”?
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The process of appealing against TD ruling creates a lot of ill-will within the player community. Do we need move to a world where the referee’s decision is final?
All discussion about the interpretation of the Laws concentrates on the l…
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There is only one set of published regulations, although every Tournament Organiser has the right to set their own regulations. As nobody does this, we have fallen into a one-size-fits all set of regulations but it is evident that one size does n…
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For some the NGS is a world-leading system, for others it is anathema. For some your NGS performance on a game gives you a better assessment of how well you did than you get from the “official” score. Is the grading concept underplayed or overpla…
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The website (about to undergo a serious change) is very much geared to reference data for the more experienced players and seems opaque or irrelevant to new players. Is that where we want it to be? If not, how do we fix that?
Recent sur…
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The competitions which the EBU organises are to a very large extent what they have always organised. It is hard to identify anything that has been dropped, but the attendance at almost all has been dropping over the years. Is the EBU running too …
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The EBU had (imho) not done much in this space until it started the Recruitment Campaigns a few years back. It has generally thought of development as an issue for teachers/EBED and recruitment as an issue for clubs. Is that good enough?
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Typo above - should read "and with neighbouring countries"
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Gloucestershire County Association had gone down the same path, to help clarify what we as a CBA are all about. Its latest drafts of these statements for GCBA are
VISION : anyone who is or might be interested in the game of bridge in Glou…
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Do you not lose a match whern the opponents get more VPs? It's not the absolute score that matters, is it?
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Trevor - Rugby Village Bridge Club has done a couple of (small numbers) sessions in the style you are describing.
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The reason the words "of all types" appeared was to highlight a responsibility linked to both member-owned clubs and proprietor-owned clubs - which often have different needs.
At the same time, it is worth noting that the remit of the EBU…
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The Mission Statement is a very high level summary (first port of call for an outsider) as to what the EBU is doing in order to move the world towards the declared Vision Statement. It needs elaboration and the components we unpick need priorits…
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Thank you all for the contributions on this topic, which have been valuable in moving the thinking forward. As you will be aware, a number of the contributions went further than the questions asked – these have been filed for later use rather tha…
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Thank you all for the contributions on this topic, which have been valuable in moving the thinking forward. As you will be aware, a number of the contributions went further than the questions asked – these have been filed for later use rather tha…
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Thank you all for the contributions on this topic, which have been valuable in moving the thinking forward. As you will be aware, a number of the contributions went further than the questions asked – these have been filed for later use rather tha…
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Thank you all for the contributions on this topic, which have been valuable in moving the thinking forward. As you will be aware, a number of the contributions went further than the questions asked; these have been filed for later use rather than…
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I must admit that often enough I don't notice a question until into the next board. My eyes just never go to the chat part of the screen when I have a hand in front of me
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I don't think you can mark a boards as unplayed, so when a board is disallowed and the system gives AV/AV I load the results into EBUScorePairs and delete that score and that goes to the club website as the official version, and that gives the f…