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1. Zonal Director’s Report
The Z.D. thanked all the Delegates for their kind support during
last year, when he had hard personal problems and beg their pardon
if -for this reason- European activities have suffered some short
delay. He reported the great success of “Harro Otte Memorial” and
gave an overview on the situation of running ETCs and EICs.
2. ICCF-Europa’s Regulation
The final draft of ICCF-Europa’s Regulation was unanimously approved
and it’s so immediately effective.
3. Financial matters
The Financial Director, Carlos Flores Gutiérrez, having to organize
ICCF Congress, was not able to write a complete report, but he
confirmed that ICCF-Europa’s financial situation is excellent, with
a high economical surplus.
4. European Individual Championships
It was unanimously decided to start both a postal and a webserver
Final on 1.02.2008. The number of players will be from a minimum of
11 to a maximum of 15 in each Final. If not enough players will
enter the postal Final, it will be started as soon as 11 qualified
players will send their entry. The next EIC Semifinals will start at
the beginning of 2009.
5. European Team Championships
The proposal to start in 2008 postal Semifinals and/or Final was
rejected (2 votes “for”, all the others “against”), but it was
agreed that postal players in w-s ETC will be allowed to send their
moves by post to their Delegate (or other national officer) who will
forward them on ICCF webserver. The Semifinals of 8th ETC and the
Final of 7th ETC will be started at the end of 2008. The number of
boards will be 8, both in Semifinals and in Final.
6. Promotional Tournaments
The Tournament Director, Leonardo Madonia, reported that e-mail
tournaments have very few entries. It was decided to start no more
e-mail tournaments and to replace them with webserver tournaments.
7. www.iccf-europa.com
The number of visitors of our web-page is decreasing because all the
tournament tables have been inserted in ICCF web-site. Anyway, it
was decided to continue to have a European web-page, trying to
improve it with theoretical articles and games and giving each
Member Federation the possibility to insert news or articles about
its own activities.
8. Proposal for new tournaments.
Alan Rawling and Gian-Maria Tani suggested organizing a “Webserver
Open Cup” with 3 stages for players with ELO < 2400, with money
prizes to all finalists. It was agree that this idea will be
implemented by Alan and Gian-Maria, with the aim to start such a Cup
in 2009. Eric Ruch proposed to organize a second edition of the “H.
Otte Memorial”, eventually with a different name, with 6 players for
each team, start-date end of 2008. Raymond Boger suggested having a
similar Cup for postal players, too (4 players for each team). These
proposals were accepted.
9. Other matters
Accordingly § 3.1.5 of ICCF-Europa’s Regulation, it was unanimously
decided to appoint George Pyrich as ICCF-Europa’s Auditor.
At the end of the meeting, the Zonal Director Gian-Maria Tani
expressed his warmly thanks to the European Delegates, TDs and
Officers for the very valuable help they gave him during the four
years of his office.
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