Life In 19x19

karaklis wrote:

Javaness wrote:It's quite nice if you get too many, rather than too few, participants though.

Hm, I supposed that was spoken ironically.

Nope, I was told that this indeed happens. And it is perfectly understandable, if you consider limited space at tournament locations, limited equipment and limited size of the organizing body etc.

karaklis wrote:

Javaness wrote:It's quite nice if you get too many, rather than too few, participants though.

Hm, I supposed that was spoken ironically.

No indeed; the "arg, I'm not going to have enough tables or enough equipment" crisis is very real! Rare, but very real - Go players (at least in the UK) are very bad at remembering to enter in advance, so you never really know until the day how many people to expect. Which makes making preparations quite hard ...

Just prepare enough for 50 ppl if you know you will have 25. Thats how we do it in Croatia. Did you ever see a overcrowded tournament here? No. Did you ever see tournament with more than 50 ppl. here? No, but thats another question

LovroKlc wrote:Just prepare enough for 50 ppl if you know you will have 25. Thats how we do it in Croatia. Did you ever see a overcrowded tournament here? No. Did you ever see tournament with more than 50 ppl. here? No, but thats another question

Yes, I had 54 at Durham this year.

In the UK we transport kit around in lots of 12 - well, 12 boards, 12 sets of stones, 15 clocks, to take into account breakages - and so I never quite know whether two lots will be enough or I'll need three. (We have some club kit, of course, but not many clocks ... it can get quite nerve-racking when you know there are, because there always are, some last-minute attendees, but you don't know how many of them there'll be ...)

tapir wrote:

karaklis wrote:

Javaness wrote:It's quite nice if you get too many, rather than too few, participants though.

Hm, I supposed that was spoken ironically.

Nope, I was told that this indeed happens.

Ah, I see, but this wouldn't apply to the Cologne tournament. Last year they had prepared more than 80 tables, so enough places for 160 players. Around 120 actually showed up.

simpkin wrote:you never really know until the day how many people to expect. Which makes making preparations quite hard ...

Well, in the Cologne tournament this problem is solved by deducting the entrance fee for pre-registered players. There are still people who haven't pre-registered, but that's managable.

karaklis wrote:Ah, I see, but this wouldn't apply to the Cologne tournament. Last year they had prepared more than 80 tables, so enough places for 160 players. Around 120 actually showed up.

simpkin wrote:you never really know until the day how many people to expect. Which makes making preparations quite hard ...

Well, in the Cologne tournament this problem is solved by deducting the entrance fee for pre-registered players. There are still people who haven't pre-registered, but that's managable.

There is a preregistration list also, so as a reward for pre-registering you get to see your name. Seems that 69 have preregistered so far. I think that a pre-registration list is part of the marketing. It is a pity I feel that so few UK tournament organisers can be bothered to do this.