The roles of a club officers.


Just a small amount describing some of the types of officers and what they do to keep various clubs running. it is not all officers do but a fair amount of the unseen types of jobs that they do.


1st the different types of officers.

1. Club Owner main officer.
2. President.
3. Vice President.
4. Welcomer. (usually a vice President)
5. Board Officer.
6. Games officers.


Owners.
Are usually the one who set up the club or took over from the original owners.
They tend to over see the running of the club some do a multiple of jobs in their club.


Presidents.
They do various jobs in a club like keeping the clubs tournies up to date wiki work, entering results, game numbers and starting new tournies when the entry is full. They also send messages to members about club tournies needing players to get them started. Try to settle any problems that may happen in the club. Some set up various Chat boards were members can talk about interests that they have. Also ask about members not been on for a while.


Vice Presdents.
They tend to do a good few of the jobs that presidents do but dont have to do as much though some do a lot of the keeping tournies up to date. Doing Club v Club events.


Welcomers.
Very important part of club life, new members need to be welcomed by the club officers, some clubs use the Vice Presidents to do this important job. The (sallyp and Friends club) my main club we tend to have a two tier way of welcoming our new members. We have our games officer set up a small match Officers against the Newbie usually 4 officers, they send the newbie the invites. also a small 8 player Knock-out (one game elimination) tournie we ask the newbie what their favourite game and do both the match and the Knock-out in that new players game. Our 2nd way is the club owner posts a welcome message on one of the clubs boards including the link to the newbie Knock-out.


Board officers.
Can be any of the clubs officers they have control of some of the clubs boards. they may do various things on the boards. Highlight something special like birthdays,anniveraries,births
and other announcements. In my club there is a request board were members can request a game variant that the club has not had a tournie in for a while or discuss different types of tournies not been done for a long time. Other boards officers can moniter the boards to keep them respectable. We have an `Ask cekj ` board were members can ask questions to the clubs officers about tournies how they run and for help with editing wikis, copying and pasting. sometimes the board features some of the prominent members of the club being asked about themselves so club members can get to know a little about the clubs officers.


Games Officers.
These officers are very important to the club they do some of the unseen work that members do not usually know about. My main club I along with another couple of officers set up tournies. Some officers belong to a number of clubs also as officers so they may be doing the same work in those clubs as well. This usually involves a lot of wiki work and can take a very long time. Coming up with a tournie sometimes it is not so easy, you need a title, gets a bit tedious if you call the tournies Backgammon, Backgammon 2 , Backgammon 3 and so on. You can call the various tournies using the month name ie. March Backgammon or Winter Backgammon or something like Halloween Backgamon. The types of tournies can differ too. Setting the amount of players in each tournie is important too, if you ask for to many players they never fill so don`t start. Setting the tournie up is usually hard work but keeping those tournies running is also something to keep officers busy as well.


A list of a few different tournies we run in my club

1) Knock-out single eliminaton games.
2) Round Robins ( I call these All Play Alls )
3) Swiss Pairings.
4) Race Type Tournies.
5) Team Tournies ( in the club )
6) Pairs Tournies.
7) Special Day Tournies. ie members birthdays using that members favourite game.
8) Themed series tournies. a set of tournies that form a theme with a leader board.


There is also many other types of tournies.


As a footnote why do officers do this for members of clubs? If I take my own self I love the
thought that members enjoy the competions that are set up by officers. I also like to play in these competions that I and others have set up.

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