MARP Election 2009 - Call for Nominations

[Zhorik]

MARP Election 2009 - Call for Nominations

It's time to nominate coordinators for 2010.

Please submit nominations for the following positions:

Regulation Coordinator
- Must maintain the regulation rules web page when necessary. Must report the update to the assistant and main web page maintainers.
- Must enforce the voting of any relevant regulation votes.
- Can extend any particular vote from the default of seven days for any good reason.
- Can reduce the length or reject any particular vote from the default of seven days for any good reason. However, this decision can be overruled by a 2/3 vote from the general public.

Tournament Coordinator
- May reject a game for the tournament for any good reason.
- May choose the final x games of the tournament at any point up to seven days in advance of the beginning of the tournament. He may change the games after this point only by a 2/3 vote from the general public.
- May set any rule for the tournament as long as the spirit of the tournament remains intact up to seven days in advance of the beginning of the tournament. He may change rules after this point only by a 2/3 vote from the general public.
- Must organize at least one public meeting before the tournament and run that meeting.
- Must enforce the rules of the tournament at all times.
- Must attempt to advertise the tournament before and after the tournament.

Knockout (MAME Championship) Coordinators (there are 3 Knockout Coordinators)
- Can choose any game for any round at any point. They may change the game before it is announced, but cannot change the game unless agreed to by a 2/3 vote from the general public after the game is announced.
- Can choose any format for the MAME Championships at any point before the tournament begins. They can only change the format after a tournament begins by a 2/3 vote from the general public.
- Must enforce the rules of the MAME Championships at all times.
- Must attempt to advertise the MAME Championships before and after the tournament.
- (Knockout Chairman Only) Must organize at least one public meeting before the tournament and run those meetings unless he designates another coordinator to do this job.

Week Challenge Championship (WCC) Coordinator
- Organize and run the Week Challenge Championship

Olympiad Coordinator
- Organize and run the MARP Olympiad

Time Trial Coordinator
- Organize and run the Time Trial Competition

Nomination rules:

1. Nominations of coordinators will last from November 15, 00:00 GMT to November 21, 23:59 GMT.

2. Any member may nominate himself or any other member during this time period. Either publicly state your nomination on this thread, or email or PM me.

3. If a member is nominated, that person must either publicly state on this thread their intention to run for the nominated position, or email or PM me their intention. (My e-mail is gastrainga2001@yahoo.com)

4. A member must have submitted his/her first recording before July 1 2009 in order to qualify as a coordinator. (NOTE: There is no minimum length of membership or activity requirement in order to nominate somebody else).

5. Any editor may be a coordinator. The same person cannot hold regulation, knockout or tournament coordinator positions.

6. Failure to announce intention of running by November 24, 23:59 GMT will be considered rejection of the nomination.

7. I will report the current state of nominations/acceptations/rejections on this thread once a day.

8. If there are no nominations for the Tournament, WCC, Olympiad or Time Trial Coordinator positions, those positions will be treated as "dead" until somebody decides to resurrect them.

Please only accept a nomination if you are committed to fulfilling its responsibilities!

Election voting will begin on December 1, 00:00 GMT and will end on December 10, 23:59 GMT. In addition to electing coordinators, voting will include Editor confidence votes.

See http://replay.marpirc.net/rules/election.htm for general MARP Election Procedures.

[Zhorik]

No nominations have been received yet.

[Chad]

Were facing a marp wide recession... But it's only been a day.

I'll nominate Barry as Tournament Coordinator.

[Zhorik]

The only nomination received so far is mahlemiut for Tournament Coordinator.

I'll nominate Phil Lamat for Regulation Coordinator.

[Zhorik]

The only nominations so far are for:

Regulation Coordinator - Phil Lamat
Tournament Coordinator - mahlemiut

[Frankie]

My nominies:

Tournament Coordinator:
Chad and Phil Lamat

Knockout:
ballas (Someone who makes that many uplaods must burn for it )
MassimoGaspari@AIVA
Rodrigo Lopes

Time Trial:
Gameboy

[RAX]

I nominate for Knockout:
pat33999
The_Pro
Redstar

Regulation: BBH

[Zhorik]

Current nominations are:

Regulation Coordinator
BBH
Phil Lamat

Knockout Coordinators
ballas
MassimoGaspari@AIVA
pat33999
RedStar
Rodrigo Lopes
The_Pro

Tournament Coordinator
Chad (aka Skito)
mahlemiut
Phil Lamat

Time Trial Coordinator
gameboy9

[Marco Marocco]

Regulation coordinator: BBH, Phil Lamat, Gemant

Tournament coordinator: Valter TRB, Tekkaman, Agodzilla, Redstar, Sawys

Olympiad coordinator: Massimo Gaspari, Tekkaman, Agodzilla, Redstar, Sawys

WCC coordinator: BBH, Sikraiken, Notman, Tekkaman, Redstar, Sawys

K.O. coordinators: Gemant, Nibbler, RAX

[Phil Lamat]

I nominate Pat Laffaye for Regulation

[Tekkaman]

I reject all my nominations,sorry.

[Massimo Gaspari]

I'll nominate Phil Lamat for Regulation Coordinator.

[Zhorik]

Current nominations are listed below. New nominations will be accepted until today (November 21st) at 23:59 GMT.

Regulation Coordinator
BBH
Gemant
Pat Laffaye
Phil Lamat

Knockout Coordinators
ballas
Gemant
MassimoGaspari
Nibbler_69
pat33999
RAX
RedStar
Rodrigo Lopes
The_Pro

Tournament Coordinator
Agodzilla
Chad (aka Skito)
Mahlemiut
Phil Lamat
RedStar
Sawys
Valter TRB
Tekkaman

Olympiad Coordinator
Agodzilla
Massimo Gaspari
RedStar
Sawys
Tekkaman

WCC coordinator
BBH
NotMan
RedStar
Sawys
Sikraiken
Tekkaman

Time Trial Coordinator
gameboy9

Nominations in italics have been declined. Nominations in bold have been accepted.

[Phil Lamat]

I add Notman for tournament.
Can I nominate myself for WCC ?
I reject my nomination for Tournament, but I accept the one for regulation

[Zhorik]

Can I nominate myself for WCC ?

Yes, self-nominations for any position are allowed. If anybody else is interested in a position and wants to self-nominate themselves, please do!

-George