Re: Refereeing (Was Re: New, almost approved FIE rule changes regarding

Richard Garner wrote:

> Something that has been implemented by my division that I think will cause
> fewer people to go to tournaments is mandatory preregistration for all
> events through the internet, even thou a large number of the older fencers
> in our division do not have or have access to the internet.

Mandatory pre-registration is prohibited by the USFA By-laws for qualifiers.
That is why we have a high at-the-door fee for the qualifiers -- we wanted
mandatory pre-registration, but then we saw in the By-laws that we couldn't.

Yes, I meant the Operational Manual.

"Mark C. Orton" wrote:

> On Fri, 21 Nov 2003 03:41:42 GMT, Carol <ca.donohue@verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
> > Mandatory pre-registration is prohibited by the USFA By-laws for qualifiers.
>
> I think you mean the Operations Manual. Qualifiers are not mentioned
> in the Bylaws.
>
> -Mark-