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Organization
There was no change in the “Managing Team” (G-M Tani -ITA-,
Zonal Director, S.Ja. Grodzenskij -RUS-, Deputy Z.D., Carlos Flores
Gutiérrez -ESP-, Finance Director, L. Madonia –ITA- European
Tournament Director). G. Pyrich -SCO- started his work as Auditor,
revising 2007 ICCF-Europa Balance. No change in the Tournament
Directors’s group, too (L. Tinture -FRA-, L. Lahdenmäki -FIN-, J.
Ryška -CZE- and E. Neri -ITA-).
Financial matters
The Finance Director, Carlos Flores Gutiérrez, who unfortunately
won’t be able to attend the Congress, arranged the 2007 Balance,
which will be provided to the Delegates before ICCF-Europa Meeting.
It shows a very florid economical situation, unless a little yearly
loss, due to the fact that in 2007 the only income was the entry
fees for the promotional tournaments.
European Team Championships
Finals
There
are just a few running games in the Final of 6th E.T.C.,
started in 2004 and played by post. The winner is Germany, the
runner-up Lithuania. There are still two teams fighting for the
third place: Czech Republic and Israel. We’ve to decide if to
adjudicate the last running games or to let them to go on until the
third place will be clear.
The Final of the 7th E.T.C. will be played by e-mail or
(most probably) on ICCF webserver. The qualified teams are the
Netherlands, Slovenia, Ukraine, Spain (from Sf. 1), Germany,
Slovakia, Czech Republic, Italy (from Sf. 2), Romania, Switzerland,
Russia, England (from Sf. 3) and Israel (the best 5.th classified).
The start-date has to be discussed, but it’s planned for the end of
2008/beginning of 2009.
Semifinals
The
Semifinals of 8th E.T.C. were planned to start at the end
of 2008, on ICCF webserver and with 8 boards for each team
(Benalmádena ICCF-Europa Meeting).
We’ve to confirm these decisions.
European Individual
Championships
Finals
We
announced two new European Champions at ICCF 2007 Congress: IM Klaus
Weber is the 63rd E.I.C. (e-mail) and SIM Andrej Loc
(SLO) in the 64th E.I.C. (postal).
These two finals are now completely over. Many thanks to T.D.
Alan Rawlings –ENG-.
The Finals of 65th and 66th E.I.C. started on
1.02.2008 on ICCF webserver (T.D.: V.I. Myakutin -RUS-), both with
13 players; at the moment 44+47 games are already over and 34+31 are
running on.
Unfortunately it wasn’t possible to start a postal final, too,
because just 2 players asked to enter it.
Semifinals
There
are a lot of players who have already got a qualification right.
I’m going to propose to the ICCF-Europa Meeting to start a new cycle
of Semifinals in 2009.
Harro Otte Memorial
The
Semifinals (T.D. T. Klauner -LUX-) are quite over.
As soon as the names of the 9 qualified teams are clear (I suppose
in a few months), I’ll start the Final.
At Benalmádena it was decided to start a second edition of such a
tournament (eventually with a different name, with just 6 players
for each team. At our Meeting we’re going to decide when to start it
(Spring 2009 ?).
It was also proposed to have a team tournament for players with a
low ELO, with just 4 players for each team. It will be organized in
next months, with start-date in winter 2008-2009.
Promotional tournaments
The
European Zone is the only one who still organizes postal
tournaments. And European players continue being interested in
postal play!
In 2007 the European Tournament Office started 15 postal groups (4
“M”, 5 “H” and 6 “O”) and only 2 e-mail groups (1 “M” and 1 “H”); 13
postal groups (3 “M”, 5 “H” and “5 “O”) have been started in the
first months of 2008.
The starting of new e-mail tournaments has been dismissed and on
2008 we started to organize webserver tournaments.
11 postal groups (4 “M”, 3 “H” and 4 “O”) and 16 webserver groups (6
“M”, 1 “H” and 9 “O”) have been started in the first nine months of
2008.
Web-site
The number
of visitors of our web-site,
www.iccf-europa.com,
is getting fewer and fewer, in spite of the accurate work of our
web-master, G. Ruggeri Laderchi -ITA-, but we think it’s useful to
continue to go on with our web-site, who also hosts the Africa-Asia
Zone’s web-pages.
In next months we’re going to improve the idea of giving each Member
Federation the possibility to insert news or articles about its own
activities.
New tournaments
The idea
carried on by Alan Rawling and myself to organize a “Webserver Open
Cup” in 3 stages for players with ELO < 2400, with money prizes to
all finalists (Benalmádena 2007) has not been developed, for
personal problems of both of us. If the 2008 Meeting agrees, I’ll
try to implement this idea in a short period.
Amici sumus!
Torino, 10.09.2008. |
