To everyone else who may want to point this passage out to me:
I did read the document, but missed that bit.
It'll only make me comment on it though.
Hahaha, you can't silence the voice of insanity (surely reason..?)
Anyway,
�10 is an exorbitant amount for what is appropriately called being a
'guest'. If people are 'ducking the main membership fee' then they obviously
do not feel they get their money's worth. If 'large numbers of existing
players' are only wanting to attend one 'official BUA event' then either
charging them twice as much for that event (normal tournament fee divided by
usual number of people on a team) or getting them to become a member of the
BUA can hardly be called inclusive and certainly not reasonable. People
playing as guests are exactly that, they can at most be expected to pay some
administration fee. It would be fair though for there to be restrictions,
such as number of non-members on a team (exeptions for student teams..?) and
also number of times a person can be a guest in a year (say once or twice).
That's it for the moment (expect more to follow when I discover more
"hidden" sections in the proposal)
Hedge
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Hedge,
I think that pick-up player part of your second point is covered in
Provisional Membership
An existing player who only intends to attend one ?official? BUA event
(e.g. a foreign guest player at a Tour event) will be offered a per-event
Provisional Membership fee entry. The tournament director might be given a
cut from this in order to encourage collection. This Provisional membership
will require the player to register their details (for rostering purposes
if nothing else) and will be set at a high enough rate to prohibit large
numbers of existing players from ducking the main membership fee. We feel
that a provisional one-event fee of �10 is reasonable.
