Short Mat Administration
Updated 2023-01-31
The October 28, 2018 club tournament was the first time we used a
third mat, diagonally squeezed into Carnarvon House.
Responsibilities
The following club members are responsible for the various tasks required to accomplish a successful short mat season.
-
Committee: Andrew Harley, Garry Anderson, Gopal Gowda
-
Registrar: Andrew Harley
-
League: Gopal Gowda
Tasks
The set-up and operational tasks are:
-
Scheduling: A session calendar showing all the scheduled games, including league games and daily draws, is produced and entered into our online calendar. A good deal of manual intervention is required to produce the final outputs.
-
Site Preparation: We lay down our two short mats in Anderson House at the beginning of the season in late September and take them up again in mid-April the following year.
-
Booking and Rescheduling: Throughout the session, players continually book themselves into the daily draw games. Recording calendar changes and bookings is a daily activity for the registrar.
- Tournaments: Club tournaments will take place on two or three weekends each fall and winter session. Now that we have two permanent mats – and a third mat which is laid down in Carnarvon House for tournaments only, tournaments are much more social affairs with up to 30 players at a time. And since we can run three games simultaneously, tournaments take less time, so we are moving towards one-day rather than two-day club tournaments. Our annual inter-club invitational tournament is usually held in December.
We welcome volunteers to assist in these activities.