It is not just "reported by TDs". I have self-reported my playings from WOs and ASLOKs over the years. (...)
So I hope going forward whoever takes over likewise accepts self-reports of this kind, perhaps only from these two extremely large tourneys if need be.
this is a point where I would stimulate a reasoning.
If anyone (not just the TD) is admitted to send results and ask officially for their record in AREA I see several possible problems:
1) the same result could be recorded two times or three times if both players and the TD -in different times- ask to record the same result.
It could be not that obvious that the game is the same, so mistakes are possible, the AREA keeper must check carefully that any request is unique, and this calls more extra unnecessary work for him.
2) fragmentatation causes uncertainty. Why Zed's games are already on AREA and my games not? perhaps the TD did not send the results and Zed simply contacted AREA personally? should I wait or ask the TD? or the AREA keeper? in any case more emails are sent, traffic increases and, again, mistakes are possible.
3) one coud be very prompt and careful when he finish 4/1 his excellent tournament , and the same day send his results to AREA. Will the same guy so quick if his tournament record is a poor 1/4? is this double standard something acceptable and useful for AREA although quite legal and formally not incorrect?
4) if for the same tournament the AREA keeper receives requests from 50-60 different players ( in VASLeague 2018 they were 143) because the TD is sleeping or simply forgot to say the players he will send the results, the AREA keeper must face an overwhelming wave of email totally unnecessary. Besides if two results of the same game are in apparent conflict (mistakes happens) what the AREA keeper should do? ask to both a clarification? search the TD (if he's not sleeping) ? ignore the second request? A lot of time and efforts spent and someone is always unhappy.
5) everyone can decide a different standard to record scenario, sides, results, date, tournament name, making more difficult and long the process to decript data, it could become a nightmare on a long run.
6) there are a lot of tournaments around the world, and quality/seriousness can vary. They are constantly increasing in number (a good thing). But when a tournament is serious enough to deserve AREA treatment? I think that the improptu tournament at Zed's, in 4th street at Lincoln (NE) on Thursday night, with six attendees (sometime seven when Charlie is not too drunk) should not count. But what the AREA keeper can know about this unknown tournament? has he the authority to eventually say "NO" ? Is useful for our AREA purposes that such a results are included? I think only the TD can decide if a tournament is serious enough. AREA keeper should give a few guidelines even so.
7) this take responsibility away from the TDs. It's a duty of the TD record results, set disputes, decide which games have been really played,
and send results to AREA. This is a guarantee for all players attending the event. If a player want his results on AREA he must send an email to the TD awaking him and asking he transmit to AREA the records, not an email to AREA to record by himself just what strictly interests him.
If a TD is "lazy" one player can ask him the permission to send at his place ALL results of the tournament, this is ok.
A partial record is something that is true only partially by definition, and in any ranking, any partial update is a bad per se.