Best thing would be MMP taking AREA stuff into his own hands.
Create a site where TDs around the world could put the results and a software that alaborate the result into a ranking.
ASL Tournament scene deserves no less than that.
Bruno's efforts are more than welcomed, but it's really too much burden for a man alone. And results are too old and a lot of ASLOK results are not even into that ranking.
jm2c
MMP has other things to do with its overseeable resouces.
As I understand it, various people have offered help to Bruno which he has not taken up - at least for the moment. This is fair enough if he wants to keep control over who is entering data to AREA to safeguared against possible chaos. It is his show after all.
Some time ago when I met him at a tournament I have talked to him about AREA and the main difficulties. This is what I remember:
Usually, a lot hinges on the tournament directors:
Do they collect the information at all? Or only Win/Loss?
Do they provide AREA with
correct names, i.e. the right spelling?
This seems to be a major issue as at numerous tournaments, it appears that slips of paper are collected that hold the players' names in shoddy handwriting. Where the TD's collect this info and feed it into their own lists (that should have the names of the participants of their tournament correctly spelled) some of the problem is alleviated.
Some hinges on the players:
Shoddy or incomplete handwriting (see above). This is not only true for the names but also for scenario names.
Some players merely provide the win or loss result but nothing else to the TD.
But then I think, some also hinges on AREA itself:
If TDs just knew what is needed in what particular form it could go a long way to provide Bruno with the necessary information that optimally would only need to be copied / pasted. And save him a lot of time trying to correct wrong spelling or to figure out missing information.
Maybe providing an "AREA report-form" downloadable with written instructions by AREA and made available somewhere (on the AREA site would be the obvious choice) would be of great help. It could be doable without much investment of time by Bruno if he so elected, I believe.
von Marwitz