Hurrah! Finally, I've been able to press the Send button on a major piece of consultation we've been working on for over 2 months. We were putting together about 6 or 7 proposals on various things to do with how to improve WCF events, and I sent the first one to the WCF Members for their comments. Then it dawned on me we'd have a further 6 ready send all in the next month or so. So instead, we've pulled them together into one large document, and it's gone out to Members tonight.
It centres around having a published 10 Year Schedule of forthcoming events. We'll update it regularly, and the placeholders will gradually get replaced by agreed bids to stage specific events. This will help Member associations - and players - plan further ahead, and also prevent the "clumping" of events that has sometimes happened. All the MC has contributed ides or comments but I must thank Ian Burridge who has done the major work on the schedule itself.
What else does the document cover? Well as well as the Schedule, there is information on the eight World Championship event types ( AC and GC singles and Team World Championships, Women's AC and GC events, and GC Over 50s and Under 21s). We are proposing to halve the WCF License Fees, which host associations pay in order to hold a recognised WCF world championship. We are also defining a clear annual bid process and timetable - we'll start shortly taking bids up till 2014, and then each year we'll call for more bids 3-4 years ahead. And finally, there are a large number of detailed refinements proposed, for example to rules on seeding and draws.
I hope before long to publish the consultation document on the WCF website. Now work starts on a second important consulation document, this one covering how to improve the involvement of WCF Members in the decision making process. And tomorrow, I hope to announce the Under 21 GC world championship for July 2011 - so there's plenty going on!
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