Incoming New Director
- Take possession of balls, Excel spreadsheets, tournament kit bag, Powerpoint for notification signs etc. etc.
General
- Maintain the tournament kit bag, kept in the east most storage cabinet including markers, clip boards, name tags etc..
- Social Director relies on name tags from Tournaments
- Maintain an inventory of balls, typically Penn balls bought at Costco
- Team captains, tournament captains are responsible for picking up balls from Director's residence
- Work to keep volunteers committed and recruit backups
November
- Determine approximate schedule for next year, available both online and at the back of last years Membership Directory
- General Meeting -- recruit volunteers for next year's tournament schedule
January
- Coordinate with The Villages San Jose to finalize dates
- Work with event sponsors for other external meets to work on dates
- Publish the Calendar on the web site along with the names of volunteers associated with each event
Tournaments
- Tournament Procedures are detailed in the Related Articles
- General Procedures is in Tournament Common Procedures, under Menu >> Admin >> Procedures >> Tournaments
- General principle -- get organized two weeks before internal events, three weeks for external meets, Memorial Day and Halloween tournaments
- Post a sign up sheet at the kiosk ... use the RT Notices.pptx Powerpoint to create the notice in a standard, branded format
- Email the club announcing the tournament ... usually easiest to find an existing email, select it, copy it and rename things to reflect the new event
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Email the Volunteer Tournament Captain ...
- a copy of Tournament Specific Procedures by creating a PDF from the web site. Remind them of the photo rules etc.
- the Excel spreadsheet for generating rotations etc.
- Be ready to act as standby for
- event promotion [follow up Newsletter eMails] ... best to use the existing email for the event, edit it, and resend it to all the club members
- help creating tournament rotations with the Excel spreadsheets
- finding additional players, usually by going to team captains or Membership Director
- Ensure that the Captain follow thru with a report to Publicity and the Rossmoor News, expenses to the Treasurer and results to Tournaments
- Maintain a list of results during the year [1st, 2nd, 3rd place] for later use in the Tournament of Champions
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