Tournament Committee

The Tournament Committee is a NASPA committee established to supervise sanctioned North American SCRABBLE tournaments.

To contact the Tournament Committee send an email to naspa-tc@yahoogroups.com.

Current Members

It currently consists of the following:

• Joe Edley
• John Chew
• Siri Tillekeratne

New members are welcome.

Agenda

The committee has the following items on its agenda:

• Decide on a certification process for tournament directors in coordination with a similar process for club directors being developed by the Club Committee
• Debate whether certification can be suspended for directors who take longer than a week to submit ratings data
• Liaise with the WESPA Tournament Committee
• On an ongoing basis, supervise tournament directors, including
  • Maintaining the tournament calendar
  • Receiving and processing incident reports, passing them up to the Advisory Board as necessary
  • Making sure that tournament directors receive the news and information they need to perform their function
  • Overseeing the mentor/apprentice system when it is implemented