Date of Meeting: Apr. 8, 2004

In attendance: Jason V, Eden S, Warren Mc, Kyle S, Dale G.

1^st Item - League play:   We will allow VRPA League players to miss one League night for the 2003 League.  Eden sums it up quite well in the Tournament post in the general section.  As stated below:
Although there are 8 Tournaments this year, it can be difficult to attend every single one. To accommodate this, your total points throughout the year will be divided by 7 to give you an average score. This allows you to miss ONE event without any penalty.

IF by chance you did NOT miss any Tournaments, your LOWEST achieved score will be dropped from your total points, and then your new score will be divided by 7. This gives someone who DOES attend all events have their worst result omitted.

Basically the calculation is:

(Total points) - (Worst Score) / (# of tournaments that year - 1)

2^nd Item - League scoring system:  We will be using an F1 scoring system for League play in 2003.  The point distribution per each game played in a league are as follows:
Top VRPAer: 10 points
2nd place: 8 points
3rd place: 6 points
4th place: 5 points
5th place: 4 points
6th place: 3 points
7th place: 2 points
8th place: 1 point

3^rd Item - Tiebreakers in a Tournament:   In previous VRPA tournaments, if first place is tied at the end, we have allowed these players to 'spilt the victory' of first place (basically each player would get an equal amount of points for 1st/second place.  We will now recommend that if a tie occurs for 1st/2nd, a final game be played against the two players.  Whoever wins that game will take first place in the tournament, and the loser will take second place.  The game played will be one of the tournament games by choice of the tournament director.  But, if the host/tournament director feels that the Tournament is going on too late in the evening, a standard TIE will be allowed.

4^th Item - What about guests, can they participate in the league?   No guests are allowed to participate in the VRPA League.

5^th Item - Website updates:   We have voted to upgrade the website from FrontPage to Cold Fusion at a cost of approx $200.00.  Money will come from the VRPA account, and Jason/Kyle have offered to help pay for some of this out of their own pocket and be reimbursed at a later date in the year.  This update will allow us to update and maintain the website much easier and efficiently.  Along with this upgrade, we will be making a new look for the website along with content updates such as a dedicated league page with rules, a new member section with bio/mug shot and an improved gallery page.  Jason V. will be creating some mock-ups of the new website to show the VRPA committee at the next meeting.

6^th Item - Newsletter:   We will be starting a newsletter for the VRPA.  This will be distributed by e-mail every 3 months and will include high points of the past quarter year.  Warren Mc will be taking this on.

ACTION ITEMS FOR NEXT MEETING:

Website mock-ups (Jason)
Post league results (Jason)
New league XLS (Warren)
League rule update (complete - Eden)