Weighing In On Tournament Standings
- medievalherald
- Aug 11, 2024
- 2 min read
In reaction to the post "THE SLTA LOOKS TO THE FUTURE" emails are arriving on the development of an independent tournament standings database by the MGA group, duplicating, or meant to replace the SLTA Standings on the SLTA Site. Side by side comparisons are below.
If you would like to share your comments*, please do so by Email: sltournament@gmail.com
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I would like to weigh in on the issue of MGA’s Tournament Standings database.
As to the question raised why we would need two in the “SLTA Looks To The Future” can’t see how this is a service to the tournament community when it basically duplicates the functions of the SLTA Database used successfully for the past 14 years. No offense to the effort expended, but the site looks amateurish by comparison.
If it were a significant upgrade of design, functionality or accessibility, I could understand it being proposed, but it fails on all counts and is more a downgrade from what the tournament community is use to.
If this decision resulted from a meeting of SLTA/MGA folks, then you would think a change of this magnitude would have been proposed, announced, vetted with all other SLTA members, by IM or email. It wasn’t, and this was the first I have heard of its existence. It bypasses the spirit of cooperation and inclusiveness the group was founded on.
This is meant as no offense to my good friends in the MGA who have worked hard on this in secret, but if upgrades were needed, why not ask for those as has been the case in the past. Kali, the sites chief postings coordinator, has done so with Headmaster Forester in the past, and all has been accommodated. No other issues have been voiced.
I was scheduled to take over the officiating of the DDA WEDNESDAY KNIGHT FIGHTS, and would not wish to enter the results using another Standings than the one SLTA has served the community for 14 years.
In looking at the sites side by side, it’s a thumbs down from me. Why fix what ain’t broken?
- Commander Bella Denver
8-11-2024
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SLTA JOUST STANDINGS
MGA JOUST STANDINGS
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