Post Blackpool and FOCAL bits

[Graeme Cole]

MK is then largely paid for by the levies which organisers have raised, absorbed from their admission revenues at an agreed rate per attendee, so that you as a participant have another like-for-like event at which to round off the year.

I've no criticism of this arrangement, which I think works very well, but IMO this way of putting it misses the fact that it's ultimately the participants who pay for it through their co-event entry fees.

Why would you want to know more about the behind-the-scenes when you have no interest in going there?

Is this entirely fair? You may have no interest in standing for parliament, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't want to know how your MP is chosen.

[Jeff Clayton Quiz]

Even if the organisation/committee reads what you're saying here, then tries to enact something in good faith, I'm inclined to think you'd both still harbour views like these if any of the work wasn't to your liking. The proper spirit of making suggestions in a community extends to stepping up and providing the resolution yourself, if and wherever you think you have the capacity to do so.

So, step up -- offer your time and your support to address this opacity. Set out what you can't see, what you want to see, and how you think that needs to be done.

And at what better time than the imminent arrival of a new Chair?

[Gavin Chipper]

It seems that participant lists are still a thing, for some events at least. It's not something I feel massively strongly about myself, but it seemed to be the general agreement that they wouldn't be a thing any more.

[Fiona T]

definitely helps with event promotion, but participants should easily be able to opt in/out!

[Phil Stanton]

My personal view is that having attendance lists published is better.
For CO:LON, everyone who signs up is explicitly asked if they're happy for their name to be published, with an assurance that it's not a problem if they'd rather not.

[George Armstrong]

There's no official decision on whether or not you can or can't announce sign ups yet. Before this year it was only Braintree that didn't announce sign ups. Lincoln, Liverpool, Rugby and Sheffield (as recurring events from last year) following the trend this year will help me to see what, if any, effect it has. If these tourneys promote themselves well on social media but struggle for numbers, then Phil's option of gaining explicit consent might be the perfect balance going forward but we won't know unless we try all our options.

[Matt Rutherford]

Going to do it different for Birmingham-have an explicitly written 'opt-out.' Everyone's name is announced unless they ask for it to be kept quiet. Basically what we were doing before, but the opt-out far more explicit