The basic question is what is to come of AREA altogether.
It has been in hibernation now for a number of years. Not a good sign.
What probably would work to revive it is to provide TD's (only) with access to enter tournament games via a website. This would take considerable workload off Bruno (or whoever will run the thing). It could also eliminate some of the problems getting the (standardized) information required. Though I reckon with regard to names of the players, some manual scrutiny to avoid doubles etc. would still be required.
Yet, all a theoretical debate. Without the "masters" of AREA being involved or passing maintenance on to others, nothing will happen I guess.
von Marwitz
as I tried to say in my last post Bruno is actually ready to pass his huge database to someone serious and brave enough to take his place.
Hence I raised this post again.
It's true that the data are frozen to August 2017, but Bruno still has all results of all tournaments that have been played in 2017-2018, VASLeague included.
So it's technically possible continue AREA exactly from the point where it stopped two years ago with no harm or loss of data.
As others have said it is not that difficult insert data and calculate a rating using chess system and (thanks to Bruno) all data in years 2017-2018 are fully available at request.
The difficult point is
to keep AREA decently updated for the future, inserting the new results at least twice in a year, that is where Bruno failed despite his best and valuable efforts.
So, in other words we need a true hero or a fanatic SMC (or perhaps a fanatic elite HS, but berserker status does not hurt) that not only make the needed major update but also continue to care AREA accepting the results of new tournaments sent from TDs worldwide and constantly keep on date the ratings as Bruno did for a long time.
is there anyone available?
