Originally Posted by Sobriquet
Chess Victoria Inc.
Agenda for Executive meeting #2 of 2009/2010 Executive. Thursday 11th February 7pm Chess Ideas premises.
I don't know if anyone else finds this agenda as amusing as I do... If you don't get the joke then compare this agenda with the agenda from the CV meeting of 23/12/2009.
Originally Posted by Sobriquet
4. To note achievements
I look forward to the reports from the Clubs Liaison Officer, the Trophies Officer or even the Arbiter!! Probably not been a busy first 20% of the year.... maybe things get busier now and at least we've got 80% of the year left to do something....
Originally Posted by Sobriquet
9. Inwards Correspondence
a. From David Cordover; re web-site offer.
Oops... I think in editing the copy/paste from previous meeting agenda you missed something. My correspondence this month was a recommendation about School-Team events. There's nowhere else on the agenda that school-teams chess is mentioned (even though it is potentially their biggest event).
Originally Posted by Sobriquet
10. Report on progress to establish Tournament Manager and Process document for the 2010 Team Championship.
Looking forward to this...after the President's Meeting in August last year I've been on the edge of my seat.... (This is interclub, right?)
Originally Posted by Sobriquet
The default fall-back position is that CV will act as tournament organiser and pay for the management of the event. Likely that CV will run i) iii) iv).vi)
Very strange.
1. Is "Teams Championship" school teams or just interclub? If just interclub then why is the school-teams event treated differently from the rest?
2. CV's preferred position is to have clubs run 'many' of the events. If clubs don't want it then "individual promoters" is a preferred option and if CV can't give it away then they PAY someone run run the event!
Has it ever occurred to CV to do something themselves? Why doesn't CV run events which make a profit and use the funds to subsidise the 'important' events which don't? Why give away the profitable events and then pay for someone else to run loss-making events (costing double because now they cover the loss and the 'management fee').
3. If CV exists only to pay other people to run loss-making events...should they even exist? Why not just let clubs run events they want to and 'promoters' run events they want to ... CV doesn't seem to be adding anything of any value.