Western
Night League- Annual
Meeting 16th May 2005
What
happened ?
Summary of the many useful points debated.
1.
Safety. Guidelines recast to put
onus on organiser to do a safety audit, suggest that last competitors remain
until last person back, Require competitors to have
suitable equipment and reserve lighting.
2.
Reintroduce the basic score tables in the results and retain the new
handicap system in parallel. Handicap system to be tuned, (see separate note).
3.
More encouragement for Novices, WNL to have lighting units/ batteries
for hire. Andy Creber and Dave Hanstock
to investigate how to get monies for this.
4.
Entry fees to become £4 senior, £1 junior. BOF revenue changes may mean
some events making a loss. Deal with problem if it arises.
5.
Website. Steve Oliver leaving country. New Web site needed. Ask around
to find someone with that interest. Helen Hanstock has established a WNL private forum on
Nopesport. See separate reference.
6.
Guidelines adjusted to reflect the above items.
7.
Handicap. All reference to
Handicap removed from guidelines,. It is not an issue
for the Organisers. Ian tabled a paper with 7 suggestions for tuning which were
accepted. Parallel non-handicap and handicap leagues, Organisers,(up to 2 per
event) to get 1000 Handicap points each, if you don’t run for 2 years you get
removed from database, low score
threshold lowered to 400 points. ( if you get less than 400 it will not affect
your Handicap), minimum percentage handicap of 20% to be established, and
finally, as it is much more difficult
for top performers to over-perform compared with mere mortals, their scores will be weighted to reflect
success when and if they achieve it, thereby making it more interesting for
them. Ian assures us that even with this weighting they are still unlikley to
win. No doubt they will still complain.
8.
Event at West Woods would be the subject of an invite to Wessex Night
League for a challenge match.
9.
Fixtures. Coming together and to
be finalised for Publication Launch at the Scottish 5 days event.
10.
Publicity. Standardised flyers for each event as well as the general
programme were thought to be a good idea, the help create a “corporate” image
and to attract new people to the Sport. Volunteer needed to produce artwork. I
will prepare an article for Compasssport Magazine regarding the handicap
system.
11.
It was a well attended meeting with many positive points being put
forward and generally well received. My thanks for the thoughts that have gone
into the items discussed.
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