The Tournament Director's main duties for a tournament are:
- Ensuring the tournament room is set up ready for play -
- including setup of boards, clocks, scoresheets. (often there are other players that will help with this)
- Taking registrations and CFC memberships.
- Making and posting game pairings.
- Recording results
- Ensuring a general level of decorum in the tournament room (more often than not that means telling spectators to reduce their noise level)
- Resolving disputes (these rarely occur)
- Ensuring boards, clocks, sets, etc. are put away.
- Returning the room to the condition before we arrived
- wipe blackboard, return chairs to original positions
The other attribute required is that the TD must be dependable, ie for Tuesday Night tournaments, the TD must be at the U of W in time to get the above accomplished, typically for weeks 2,3 and 4 of any month, being in the room by 6:40 pm should be adequate. To assist TDs, the MCA has established that parking will be reimbursed. There is a parking lot just to the east at the corner of Ellice and Balmoral that I have been using.
If you are interested in learning to be a TD, send me, Tony Boron, an email - chessmanitoba at gmail dot com
The goal is to have a pool of reliable TDs to share the workload. It is quite possible that you are not interesting in performing all the tasks, but just some. That would work also.
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