Gib Open Entries - 25th Feb 2009

During my lunch break I go to check our PO Box and I receive 2 further lots of entries for the Gibraltar Open 2009.

I reply to the 1st one to confirm, as its a simple single entry. Will deal with the other in due course as they have added youth players and I need to speak to Nicholas, Harry and the committee to see if we will have a youth event.

We have over 30 registered youth players this year so I seriously don't see why we can't take a few extra boards down and have a youth event. They will not be able to play on stage simply because of time restrictions as there is barely time to get the Ladies & Men's finals on stage but they can have 4 boards for themselves to play a youth Gib Open.

AmandaS. contacts me via email (originally from the UK but now resides in Spain), concerned that there is no information on registering for the BDO Torremolinos Open, I reply and advise her that Spanish residents like Gibraltar players can register at Torremolinos on the day before each event eg. Monday for Tuesday and so on.

As promised Darren sends me the minutes of the meeting of yesterdays disciplinary committee meeting. I did inform him earlier on in the day that without minutes I would not head any more meetings. This came around simply because we got our fingers caught in the past and it simply could not happen again. I am grateful that he did. I changed them a bit to be more specific as it was slightly generalised and quite frankly members as committee need to be made accountable for what they say and when they say it.

For example if a committee member promises to deal with something then the minutes of the meeting is a great way to check up on that person in the next meeting and see if he/she has done anything about it.

Lastly today I send an email to crowsdarts who has prepared a webpage listing bars around the world who have dartboards. I ask him if it would be possible to include Gibraltar and its better to list the actual GDA as the 1st point of contact because some bars play for a few years and then drop out and we are the best contact to advise anyone who gets in touch.

I'll have to keep an eye on this site just to make sure we do not get listed under Spain in case the author's geography or history is not up to scratch. I'm sure he is though.

For those interested the website is http://www.dartbars.com/