09-08-2016, 09:44 AM
Worthwhile noting here that in recent years David Congalton has
Resurrected the Primary Individual after a hiatus.
Hosted the Glorney the year after Scotland were unable to host the event following some unfortunate and unforeseen complications at Stirling.
Been the contact person and chief organiser for multiple junior events abroad.
Recently he has had to do this on his own following the departure of the Junior directors elected at the 2015 agm.
All this on top of organising multiple weekend tournaments and controlling financial affairs to ensure that CS is close to a break even situation over the 12 month cycle.
I don’t understand the point of writing a long list of junior events and their dates and fretting over how to send the same youngsters to all events. Its not Pokemon go – you don’t have to catch them all !!. Better is the solution adopted by David - chose the events to suit the juniors’ needs rather than try to send best possible team to every event.
However Andy Muir’s comments about the world Juniors is highly pertinent.
The 2016 event is underway in India, transports costs would have been a major issue. Published advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not advice against visiting this part of India.
The 2017 event will be in Italy, and will be much cheaper and quicker to reach. Like India much British style food should be available instead of curries there should be pizza, pasta, spaghetti, ice cream. Sending unaccompanied juniors need not be an issue. These are under U20 events (Under 20 more than 9 months before the event kicks off).
Costs for FIDE events are defined by tournament regulation. For India 2016 one girl and one boy per country gets free accommodation – plus a few admin costs – its all in the tournament regulations. For Italy 2017 details should be out a few months before the event.
Andy Muir is standing for a directorship at the 2016 agm. Recent postings on the forum confirm that this will be a disputed election. Democracy does not always produce the best results, 300,000,000 citizens in the USA and they narrowed it down to those two !
I saw no need for Andy Muir to produce detailed plans showing the percentage of the junior budget that he would have allocated to a long list of events. That has never happened before as far as I know for any CS director. Plus my reading of the new constitution is that any such plans should be ratified by the junior board.
In an earlier posting it was suggested that Andy Muir should click the like button on facebook to show his appreciation of the junior’s T shirts. Bizarre logic – at the time that item had only 6 likes. Hence 99% of CS members had not clicked the like button.
Resurrected the Primary Individual after a hiatus.
Hosted the Glorney the year after Scotland were unable to host the event following some unfortunate and unforeseen complications at Stirling.
Been the contact person and chief organiser for multiple junior events abroad.
Recently he has had to do this on his own following the departure of the Junior directors elected at the 2015 agm.
All this on top of organising multiple weekend tournaments and controlling financial affairs to ensure that CS is close to a break even situation over the 12 month cycle.
I don’t understand the point of writing a long list of junior events and their dates and fretting over how to send the same youngsters to all events. Its not Pokemon go – you don’t have to catch them all !!. Better is the solution adopted by David - chose the events to suit the juniors’ needs rather than try to send best possible team to every event.
However Andy Muir’s comments about the world Juniors is highly pertinent.
The 2016 event is underway in India, transports costs would have been a major issue. Published advice from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office does not advice against visiting this part of India.
The 2017 event will be in Italy, and will be much cheaper and quicker to reach. Like India much British style food should be available instead of curries there should be pizza, pasta, spaghetti, ice cream. Sending unaccompanied juniors need not be an issue. These are under U20 events (Under 20 more than 9 months before the event kicks off).
Costs for FIDE events are defined by tournament regulation. For India 2016 one girl and one boy per country gets free accommodation – plus a few admin costs – its all in the tournament regulations. For Italy 2017 details should be out a few months before the event.
Andy Muir is standing for a directorship at the 2016 agm. Recent postings on the forum confirm that this will be a disputed election. Democracy does not always produce the best results, 300,000,000 citizens in the USA and they narrowed it down to those two !
I saw no need for Andy Muir to produce detailed plans showing the percentage of the junior budget that he would have allocated to a long list of events. That has never happened before as far as I know for any CS director. Plus my reading of the new constitution is that any such plans should be ratified by the junior board.
In an earlier posting it was suggested that Andy Muir should click the like button on facebook to show his appreciation of the junior’s T shirts. Bizarre logic – at the time that item had only 6 likes. Hence 99% of CS members had not clicked the like button.