The Point System

Note that the point system is not active as yet for the 2001-2002 season.  Tournament players will be decided on a first-come, first-serve basis.


Because of a great deal of public outcry that the people chosen to go to tournaments are being chosen unfairly (a general e-mail was being sent and the first people to reply were allowed to go), we have devised a new system to determine who gets to go to tournaments.  This system is very fair (we think) and will be put into effect beginning with the student activities fair at the beginning of the 2000-2001 season.

Here is the way it works.  For doing certain activities which benefit either yourself as a player or the team in general, points will be awarded.  The people with the most points get first priority on going to tournaments (as space allows).  As everyone knows, we are rather limited in the way of transportation, and, therefore, drivers will have first priority, also in order of their point totals, until we have all the drivers we need for any given tournament.

We have assigned a few basic point tasks and values below, more specific points will be awarded at the discretion of the president, taking the other officers' and team members' suggestions and recommendations into consideration.  Points will be kept in a log by the secretary.


A FEW BASICS:
Activity Points Assigned
attending practice 5 pts. per practice
writing questions: 3 pts. per question usable w/o editing
2 pts. per question usable w/ editing
1 pt. per unusable question
reading/scorekeeping a UVA hosted tournament: 10 pts. per tournament (5 pts. for half days)
working the activities fair: 5 pts. per 2 hr. shift

NOTE:
In order to keep the same people from going to tournaments every time and to allow more people to go to tournaments, we have decided that one must 'pay' points to attend tournaments.  Therefore, each person will be docked 25 points for attending a tournament.  The idea is that one would then earn these points back by attending practice, writing questions, etc. etc.


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