In article <aha3i5$m32$1@og1.olagrande.net>,
edew@olagrande.net (Eric Dew)
writes:
>
>This coming season, we're trying a new tack, with "membership" cards of
>our own. The fencer is required (encouraged) to put their USFA membership
>card in the back of this slip. On the front has information about club,
>division, age, classification (rating), national or local points, whatever.
>We take the card, sort by the standard senior national points/ratings/
>non-senior national points/local points/random, and then use the
>cards to seed the fencers. When they lose, they go back to the bout
>committee table and pick up their cards.
>
>This way, we don't have to
>1. Write down their name/ratings/etc. on a separate sheet of paper
>2. Sort and seed from that list
>3. Determine the results and write them down.
>
>The results can be easily determined by sorting the cards as soon
>as the winners bring in their DE sheets. Thus, we can use the
>related dead time during the pools to write the names and such of
>the fencers onto the entry sheet instead of during the crush of
>registering before check-in closes.
>
>EDEW
Eric,
I was just wondering if you all out there were actually, ddoing this, and if
so, how it was working...
TIA