TPF - One Time Limit per Year
As usual, us plebs didn't know that since we can only rely on the CFC Handbook as it is on the website ( I know Bob G is to update it when he gets time, now that he has the special report from Govenor Maurice Smith ). It will be great when members can know the laws of the organization !
But that doesn't change Jason's excellent point - he doesn't want it available " as often as you like ". He wants it now to be available only " once per year ". So if the Governors are to incorporate his idea, they will have to amend the " amended " section 375 that no one knows the wording of, outside of the select few. It will have to be changed from the TPF being indefinitely available, to being only available " once per year ".
Bob
Junior Rating Fee Increase: GC Changes Position
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Originally Posted by Bob Armstrong
1. The GC wanted any junior rating fee increase capped at a maximum of 100% ( or $ 1 ). The one motion does this, though adds the condition that the organizer must use the new CFC automated tournament submission system. The motion does not raise the adult rating fee- stays at $ 3 - but again only if you use the automated submission system. Finally the motion penalizes those organizers not submitting using SwissSys - $5 per player ( whether adult or junior ). We urge the Governors to pass this motion ( though we do think the 400% increase in the penalty for junior organizers is unfair, when the increase for organizers of adult tournaments not using the system is only 66.7% ).
Bob
I drafted the GC motion and the commentary on capping any junior rating fee increase on behalf of the Grassroots' Campaign ( GC ), and I intended that the GC actively support the CFC raising the junior rating fee, if it only went to $ 1.We assumed the CFC needed the money if they moved for an increase. I thought this was clear to the membership. It was on this basis that I made my post saying the GC urged the governors to pass the increase. I thought our position was clear in support. The Commentary to our motion capping the junior rating fee increase said:
“ A raise in rating fee may be justified given the CFC’s financial situation, but a 100% increase in the junior rating fee is the maximum tolerable. “
But subsequently 2 Governor GC Supporters questioned whether this position was understood by all GC Endorsers from the motion/commentary. They felt it was ambiguous. Consequently I went back to the GC membership to clarify the situation.
An overwhelming majority of those voting, changed the GC position ( they had not understood my position as being set out clearly by the GC motion/commentary ). So the new position of the GC on the junior rating fee increase is :
" The GC should take no position on a junior rating fee increase. We neither support it , nor do we oppose it. It is solely a CFC decision. They know their finances, and if they need an increase. All we maintain is that the increase not go over $1, and it hasn’t in the motion, so we are able to “ accept “ the motion if passed by the Governors. "
In the light of this change, GC withdraws its active " support " for the motion, and no longer " urges " the Governors to pass the motion. But neither do we " oppose " it. It is up to the CFC to convince the Governors it is required. If it is passed, we can " accept " that.
GC still urges the Govenors to pass the motion doubling the Tournament Playing Fee ( TPF ) to $ 20, and instituting the junior TPF of $ 10.
Bob