What is happening Thursday evening?
Open forum!
Please spread the word!
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i support a way to more transparence and structure. i think it is also a good idea to introduce open forums at tournaments, but speaking about inclusivity and discussion IRL i don’t think ehpc is the best option for that. if you think about it as a process and use every bigger tournament, including hell’s belles, as a platform for a work in progress, would make more sense to me.
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i agree , but i understand why people organically organize themselves around global events like euro / worlds : its a convenient date where you know you will find most club represented.
the cons are that everything gets decides by a handfull of individual on a couple hours ( ie when the mallet interference rule was re-interpreted) which i dont think is acceptable.
by all mean organize open forums IRL , as many as possible , but someone should take note of whats being discussed and “decided” and this decisions should be open for discussion by and to the larger comunity ( the rest of the 500 players not attending euros).
is it difficult to organize ourselves globally here on poloverse ? cant we use tools like zoom meeting and such to have an opportunity to discuss ?
most global organizations do that
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Thinking back at 2014 when NAH introduced interference into the ruleset it was not very popular at the start in Europe. Most European tournaments I attended in the first half of the season (I can only speak for central and eastern Europe at the time) used the new ruleset with the exception of the interference rule. I was myself at first not a fan of the rule. I would have voted nay. I expect so would have voted other clubs, since they were hesitant using the rule at their tournaments.
I wonder if by letting clubs reps vote what would have been the outcome. We are talking about what today I consider the most positive impact on the game of any new rule. Good it was “forced” by those who had thought it through and tested it!
I am trying to point out, that it takes some knowledge, foresight and testing to make an informed yes/no decision on complex topics such as major rule changes.
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its true and the process is so mich long and complex to make it fully inclusive and democratic.
but since 2014 we built the culture a bit more :
-we have tons of media , replay , video content.
- polo camps, ref camps , ref meetings that can be recorded and re-watch
and we have this platform , poloverse , wich should be a pivotal tool to federate the sport and organize it around it.
the issue is obviously the non-existant capacity for this community to have full time unpaid dedicated person to run this, because atm we make it look like its gonna be the responsability for a handful of volunteers , when imo we should implement more of these procedures that automatically involve every club and every players practicing / “licensed” , to make everyone responsible for where they want the sport to grow and how.
like rn we are debating thz shuffle rule , but is it going to last forever or are we organizing it ?
- step 1 discuss a rule : " should we legalize shuffle ?"
- step 2 provide platforms to educate on the matter : propose alternatives games with shuffles , review them , historical meaning of the shuffle , impact on mallet designs , impact on game mechanics at high level and beginers level etc etc
- step 3 2 weeks to gather votes through every clubs : the shuffle rule talk stems from french polo camp in bordeaux , france start the motion of voting , if a great amount of french votes goes for the legalization of the shuffle , rest of euro can maybe consider it ? maybe other euro countries can run the coting independantly too if the matter is relevant to them
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