Disagree in full. If the admin or admin system can't detecting a double report...well that is just poor. Names can't be misspelled once the system logs that name...just the way ROAR gets or does not get who you are talking about or what scenario you are talking about. Incomplete data "falling top report a scenario name" is a technical problem which experts like Aaron likely handle with "failed to record your game b/c scenario name invalid". Means do four fucking home work and get the name right...just like the TD has to do. Go around again Red Rider, you are babe off in the pattern.
Practice shows, that players are very often
not up to their "homework" or quite often not even consider it their "homework" at all to do some reporting. And it is not the "homework" of a TD to sort out inconsistencies, errors, failures of reporting, incomplete reportings, double reportings of players etc that these report as they trickle in (or not)
after a tournament and then feed them bit by bit to AREA.
And certainly names can be misspelled and are misspelled - especially ROAR is a prime example for that.
Just to give you one example that is exemplary (one of my regular opponents):
Koch, Michael
Koch, michael
Koch II, Michael
Further examples that I have encountered (I'll stick to "Koch" for the sake of the example):
Koch, M.
Koch, Unknown
Koch, Paddy
Unknown, Michael
And this does not even include typos.
This is what ROAR gets. Which you ironically seem to cite as a functioning example.
This is what AREA would get if anyone could enter stuff. This is what TDs get when they (or a volunteer) takes the troubles to collect slips of paper
during a tournament, where he can still relatively easily collect the missing bits of data due to the information about the participants, pairings, and scenarios he has. Absolutely no one wants and can be burdened to make such corrections
after a tournament for entries by individual players.
It does not even end here. AFAIK, Bruno has even made manual corrections to information provided to him by TDs. That is to data that has already had one prior run of getting the information together and to sort our errors.
So much for getting the correct information.
Now on to ASLOK and WO.
Of course, these two are very important events, and at least ASLOK is
the most important event during the ASL-year. Nevertheless, these do not serve as a good example for the usual ASL-tournament.
By far the most tournaments will have something between 20 and 50 participants, with 50 being safely counted among the "bigger" events.
So while Bret has more than enough to do running the show at ASLOK without collecting any slips of paper with reported games, TD's have much better opportunity and chances to get this done at the average tournament. For a special event such as ASLOK, some special routine can be established as it has in the past.
von Marwitz