Bill
14-10-2005, 11:23 PM
You may have noticed a couple of forum changes.
"Tourney" has been renamed to "Tourney - Chat and Results"
Its where you can discuss past events, rules, training methods, whatever.
This is not for the listing of Upcoming Events. All event threads listed in here after today will be locked and you will need to reenter them into the correct thread.
"Dates and Results" has been renamed to "Upcoming Events"
This is where all new upcoming events are discussed, be it a tournament, training day, association meeting, even a Paintball Players Pub Crawl would fit here :beer:
There have been some permission changes to this forum and the initial thread starting post will only be accepted if entered via the Calender.
http://www.billspaintball.com/dates/dates.php
What happens is that the calender will make the openeing post in the forums when you submit it, then direct you to the post. (try it and see :) )
If you have detailed information you can put it in the 'Notes' Box.
All replies, editing etc will remain unchanged.
Why have these changes been made?
Several reasons;
Feedback that it was difficult to find event information because of too may different topics in there.
Feedback that it was difficult to find event information because it was scattered in different forums.
Feedback that when information was posted in several areas, it was updated in some and not in others.
It will allow easy searching of event types, dates and locations.
It will allow players/teams to plan their schedule of events more easily.
It allows larger file sizes to be attached (such as entry forms, info packages).
Looking further down the planned development path;
It will make the upcoming results database more efficient.
It will allow event organisers to have a "live" listing of number of teams entered etc if desired. (when teams database is active)
It will tie past events into the results database making it easy for checking and comparing results.
"Tourney" has been renamed to "Tourney - Chat and Results"
Its where you can discuss past events, rules, training methods, whatever.
This is not for the listing of Upcoming Events. All event threads listed in here after today will be locked and you will need to reenter them into the correct thread.
"Dates and Results" has been renamed to "Upcoming Events"
This is where all new upcoming events are discussed, be it a tournament, training day, association meeting, even a Paintball Players Pub Crawl would fit here :beer:
There have been some permission changes to this forum and the initial thread starting post will only be accepted if entered via the Calender.
http://www.billspaintball.com/dates/dates.php
What happens is that the calender will make the openeing post in the forums when you submit it, then direct you to the post. (try it and see :) )
If you have detailed information you can put it in the 'Notes' Box.
All replies, editing etc will remain unchanged.
Why have these changes been made?
Several reasons;
Feedback that it was difficult to find event information because of too may different topics in there.
Feedback that it was difficult to find event information because it was scattered in different forums.
Feedback that when information was posted in several areas, it was updated in some and not in others.
It will allow easy searching of event types, dates and locations.
It will allow players/teams to plan their schedule of events more easily.
It allows larger file sizes to be attached (such as entry forms, info packages).
Looking further down the planned development path;
It will make the upcoming results database more efficient.
It will allow event organisers to have a "live" listing of number of teams entered etc if desired. (when teams database is active)
It will tie past events into the results database making it easy for checking and comparing results.