Life of a TO

As mentioned earlier I am organising a tournament, Tin Soldiers, the event is this coming weekend, and I'm finding even for a "small" event things can get quite frustrating..... so I thought I'd vent through the medium of my Blog.


"Sorry mate, ".

Since 'finalisin' entrants 3 people have informed me they will no longer be able to attend, each time I have frantically found a replacement to make even numbers again, before someone else informing me they won't be there - its VERY annoying. Thankfully someone has come to my rescue in that they will be turing up on the day, ready to play for the weekend, but if there is an odd number of players, they will gracefully bow out.

"COMP"
Tournaments have a 'composition' score aka "comp". This is because to allow flexibility the armies allowed aren't all balanced. Comp is supposed to address this somewhat. For the comp system I thought it best/fairest to have everyone send lists in, and an 'independant panel" to score them based on some pre-set criteria.

I have discovered that defining, and clarifying that criteria is very complex, and am being inundated with queries about what I meant by....

Getting the lists in, and finding judges was also not an easy task. But what was REALLY annoying was to make it easier for the judges I typed all the lists into a single spreadsheet - then the morning I went to send them my computer crashed, file lost, so I had to type them all in again - it took AGES.


Added to the above the logistical issues in getting 13 large bits of wood around the city (which I am very grateful to have been loaned them by a local club), organising a date (which I got wrong, as many people can't attend due to another wargaming event being on the same day)... etc it's all quite frustrating.

I guess that's what you get as TO. Hopefully after the "agrro" everyone will enjoy the event - I'll report on that later.