The UK Backgammon Federation
Four weeks of voting came to an end on Sunday night at 10pm, and the turnout exceeded two hundred and fifty players – many more than had been predicted, even by some of the candidates!
After careful scrutiny of all the votes I can declare the result as follows:
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Voting is now Open, and will close at 10pm GMT on 14th December.
Fifteen candidates await your votes; seven of these will be elected:
Jon Barnes
Peter Bennet
Michelle Ford
Julia Hayward
Raj Jansari
Tim Line
Eric Maillebiau
Roxanna Maynard
Eric McAlpine
Simon Morecroft
Jason Pack
Graham Read
Tariq Siddiqi
Ian Tarr
Sean Williams
Each of these players has decided to stand for election to the UKBGF Board and you can read all their self-nomination statements here.
Voting is now open, so when you are ready to cast your votes, click here to be transferred to SurveyMonkey. Individual votes are not public and will never be made public; however the election arbiter (Julian Fetterlein) has access to voter submissions for verification purposes.
Please Note:
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As a result of feedback received from players about the proposed voting process for the new UKBGF board, a number of changes have been made. The final amended process is described below.
As previously announced, following the success of the 2014 UK Open the current UKBGF board feel that the time is right to move to a 100% elected federation. We want the UKBGF to be fully democratic and to be owned and represented by its members. The new UKBGF Board will decide the future constitution of the organisation, membership criteria, dues and all other aspects of the UKBGF although it is initially envisaged that the first elected board will sit for two years. The following process and timetable will be used to elect the new UKBGF board…
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Following the success of the 2014 UK Open the current UKBGF board feel that the time is right to move to a 100% elected federation. We want the UKBGF to be fully democratic and to be owned by and represented by its members. The new UKBGF Board will decide the future direction of the organisation, membership criteria, dues and all other aspects of the UKBGF. We are proposing the following process and timetable…
6th October to 19th October: Feedback on the proposed voting process.
19th – 28th October: Voting process finalised in light of comments received.
29th October: Final process emailed to mailing lists and posted online.
29th October to 9th November: Self-nominations submitted.
14th November to 14th December: Voting.
15th December: Voting Closes. Results announced.
We currently propose that anyone may self-nominate to be a member of the board.
To nominate yourself you need to submit answers to the following 5 questions (each answer may be no longer than 500 words).
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Over 140 players attended the UK Open at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry over the weekend of 19-21st September. The tournament was ably directed by John Wright and Phil Tutchings, with assistance from Ian Tarr. The consensus of the majority of players was that the event was a great success, and the question I was asked most frequently was “When’s the next one?”
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