11:20 am, 28 January, 2000, at the Canberra R.S.L. Club

Committee members present:

Andrew Goff - President
Craig Sedgwick - Secretary
Tristan Lee - ordinary voting member
Robert Stephenson - ordinary voting member

Meeting opened at 11:20am

First item of business: Tournament Scoring Systems.

A unanimous decision was reached by the committee that a list of all
current scoring systems will be assembled and will be listed as
available scoring systems for any future tournaments. All these scoring
systems will initially be under review by the DAANZ executive. The DAANZ
executive will review all these scoring systems over the course of the
next 12 months, and pare them down to an acceptable list of systems able
to be eligible for Bismark Cup points.

Any new scoring system (or variation on an existing system) must be put
to the DAANZ executive a minimum of two months prior to the advertised
tournament, for approval to be used at the tournament and to be eligible
for Bismark Cup points.

Second item of business: Bismark Cup Bonus Boards.

A unanimous decision was reached by the committee that no future
tournament will receive a 'board bonus'. The committee believes that the
reasons for originally establishing the 'board bonus' system are no
longer relevant.

Third item of business: Bismark Cup Scoring System.

A unanimous decision was reached by the committee that for the year
2000 tournament circuit we will use the "Bismark Cup 2000 Scoring
System", using the current Bismark Cup scoring table (minus board
bonuses as per the previous item).

The system used is 'total Bismark Cup points awarded' divided by 'number
of tournaments attended plus two', where the minimum division is by six.

That is….. (Total Bismark Cup points awarded)/(Number of tournaments +
2)

Fourth item of business: DAANZ Rag.

Andrew Goff to be interim editor of the DAANZ Rag. The next issue due
February 2000 will be produced by Bill Brown, with Andrew taking over
publication with the May issue. The committee has agreed to maintain the
same basic format as the Rag is presently. At the next AGM the DAANZ
executive will be seeking a permanent editor.

Meeting closed at 1:10pm.

Notes:
1. The evening prior to this committee meeting an informal meeting of
the committee took place at Andrew Goff's home. The purpose of this
informal meeting was to discuss issues prior to the formal meeting. This
allowed the committee to review and discuss ozdip postings and material
from other DAANZ members. This meeting ran in total for approximately
eight hours.
2. Since the committee meeting Bill has asked Andrew to take over
running of the Rag from this current issue. Andrew has agreed and has
commenced putting the issue together.