Nortrom's Stratego (and other topics) blog

Tournaments without proper preparations from an organisational side are doomed to fail. Small, local tournaments, may seem as only renting a venue to play at, but a lot of other things must be taken into account as well. Boards, clocks (logistics) must be taken care of. An invitation has to be made. A referee/computer operator is required. In The Netherlands we use a 'tournament owner' system. A player, often a local, will take care of many of the organisational things (venue, invitation, referee/computer operator) while the National Stratego Organisation (NSO), in this case Stratego Bond Nederland (SBN) takes care of the finance, logistics, prizes and sending out the invitation. A specific player (or group of players), with support from SBN, organise local tournaments. While all of this are a lot of background tasks, it can be time consuming and if the turnout of players isn't high, it can be slightly demotivating even for a tournament owner. Onhe year a local tournament