TLA Sorting

[Smythe_Dakota]

Here’s a thought, at least for the on-line TLAs. Don’t have cross-state listings, but instead allow a player to browse more than one state at a time. For example, a player near the CA-NV border could, instead of first looking at the CA events and then at NV, could specify CA and NV. The website would then generate a combined listing, mixing the two together in order by date.

Bill Smythe

[DENTONCHESS]

This seems like a simple issue. The more listings one wishes to PAY for, the more listings
wherever he can buy. If one wishes to advertise his tournament in all 50 states in the TLA,
the more the merrier for USCF.

And, in regard to TLAs, a key purpose of them should be to generate a profitable cash flow
for USCF. Yes, these are important in that by advertising events, USCF sells new memberships,
and renewals, but bottom line is that this area should not be a marginal or negative cash outlay.

Rob Jones

[tanstaafl]

@Ron Suarez

I too find it annoying to have other state tournaments listed in my state. I have lived and worked in different parts of my state over the years and there are times I was really interested in the St. Louis part of Missouri for tournament play. There was also a time when I wanted to know about Iowa and Missouri. There was also a time when I could look to go to Indiana fairly easily, and Wisconsin. Currently I could look at Iowa, Wisconsin and Indiana for activities I might want to attend. I most likely would not think of Missouri at all at this time in my life.

When I look up a state in the TLA’s I want to see the tournaments in that state and none else. As mentioned by Enrique, I don’t care to have to wade through all the Missouri tournaments for Illinois ones.

If I know I will be in the St. Louis area, as I might be in the next 8 months or something, I’ll look at the Missouri TLA’s. If I want to see Iowa listings, I’ll thumb over to Iowa.

I certainly don’t need or appreciate the forced, bureaucratic advertising of other states in my state’s listings.

If I want a tournament in a state, I’ll look in that state’s listings. I certainly don’t want or expect to look in Illinois for a Michigan listing.

Isn’t that why we have separate state listings to begin with, you know, to identify what tournaments are in what state?

You might feel differently if you were organizing a tournament in East St. Louis, for example. Sure, the tournament will be in Illinois, but the majority of the PLAYERS would be from MO. Why should an organizer there have to risk not being noticed by a large number of his potential players? YOU might be used to looking at all the neighboring states that you’re interested in, but those that live in large cities might neglect the neighboring states. Just let the organizer run the ads in as many states as he wants to pay for.