QUESTIONS ABOUT GETAGAMEOFBOWLS

Questions from Bowlers How do I use GETAGAMEOFBOWLS to find a tournament? Can I enter a tournament through GETAGAMEOFBOWLS? Does it cost me anything to make an entry? How will I know that my entry has been accepted? Will my email address be given away to anyone? Questions from Clubs How can my club list its tournaments on getagameofbowls? I have the username and pin. How do I make an entry? How long will the listing appear for? Do I have to remove the listing when the tournament has been played? How do I edit a tournament which is already listed? How do I list a weekly social tournament? I want list a tournament which is played monthly - can this be done quickly? Can our club have some free entries? If we participate, do you have any expectations of our club? What is the cost of this service? What does it cost to list prizemoney tournaments? Can I show the name of the sponsor of my tournament? How do we get our tournaments to appear in the state or national featured listing? If we have used all our free credits, how do we get and pay for additional credits? Questions from Bowlers How do I use GETAGAMEOFBOWLS to find a tournament and place my entry? Click on the state you want to play in In the list of games look for the date you want to play on and the type of game you want to play in. You can sort the list by clicking on the column heading Click on the 'play' link at the end of the row. You will receive full details of the club and the tournament Can I enter a tournament through GETAGAMEOFBOWLS? Underneath the details of the club and the tournament there is a form you can use to enter the tournament of your choice. Complete the form and click send. You will then receive a confirmation note Does it cost me anything to make an entry? There is no charge to bowlers entering tournaments or to clubs listing their tournaments. If you are a full member of a bowling club you have playing rights at every other club in Australia and your entry should be accepted on the same terms as those applicable to a member of that club. How will I know that my entry has been accepted? We suggest that clubs receiving entries should reply by email within 48 hours. If you do not receive a reply we suggest that you ring the club. Will my email address be given away to anyone? We keep no record of email addresses and other information sent through the getagameofbowls email entry form Questions from Clubs How can my club list its tournaments on getagameofbowls? We have allocated a username and pin to every known bowling club in Australia and we will be communicating this information to the clubs by mail or email in the near future. If your club has not yet received this information, go to the registration page by clicking here and you will receive this information within 24 hours. I have the username and pin. How do I make an entry? Go to getagameofbowls.com and click on the link 'add to list' at the top and bottom of any page. Enter your username and pin. If this is your club's first listing, spend time to update the club information which appears first on this page. The name and address of the club should be corrected, with the address shown being the postal address for the club. The contact person's name and email address should be that of a person who will check emails regularly and have the authority to accept emailed entries and list them at the club. The email address will not be available to someone who is casually looking at the page. If you have a club web site enter it so that potential players can see more about your club than getagameofbowls offers. Under 'green location' and 'find greens' give information which will help strangers to your district get to your game on time. Enter the details of your tournament. Don't forget to put in both the tournament date and entry close date using the drop down lists provided Place your tournament in one of the type shown in the drop down box, or enter the type of the tournament in the box below the list if it does not fit. You are not allowed to include your sponsors name as part of the type of tournament. Enter other details in full. Under prizes give some details of how prizes if any will be distributed If you have a sponsor enter the name of the sponsor here - it will appear on the tournament details page and on the state and national listings. The 'additional information' can be quite long, and can include HTML tags to highlight details (dot points, bold, italique). Users can sort tournaments by prizemoney. Because of this the total prizemoney must be entered as a number without a dollar sign, comma or spaces How long will the listing appear for? Your tournament will appear on the site from the day you list it until the day it is played, gradually moving to the top of the list. Do I have to remove the listing when the tournament has been played? The listing will disappear on the playing date. When you have entered your user name and pin the tournament will still appear in the list of tournaments from your club at the foot of the page Each time you log in we ask you to delete expired tournaments from your list unless you are likely to copy them at a later date. An annual tournament can stay there until you put it up for the next year. If you list a weekly social tournament then you should remove all expired instances How can I edit the details of a tournament already listed? Make a copy of the tournament by clicking on fill and amending the details Upload the copy, checking carefully that all details are now correct Delete the original One small problem - if in the copy you are not changing the date, you need to make a small change to the tournament title so that you can distinguish the new version from the old ( eg men's pairs might become Men's Pairs) How do I list a weekly social tournament? You list it every week, but this takes very little time When you have uploaded a tournament you will be asked whether you want to do list a tournament with the same details for a week later. Two clicks later you the next one is in and you are asked about the following week For a fortnightly tournament it would be sensible to put it in for every week and then delete the days on which it is not being played We want list a tournament which is played monthly- can this be done quickly? At the bottom of the listing page you will see a list of tournaments from your club currently on our database. If you click on one of these tournaments the entry form above will be filled in. You then only have to enter the dates and make any other changes needed. Your additional monthly tournaments can be listed in less than a minute. What is the cost of this service? Listing on www.getagameofbowls.com is FREE Every registered club receives free 'getagame credits'. When you list a game your credit balnce will be reduced, and when your club's credit balance falls below four you will be given the chance to 'purchase' more credits. You can obtain an additional 50 credits free of charge as as often as you need them. If we participate, do you have any expectations of our club? WWW.GETAGAMEOFBOWLS.COM will work for bowlers if there are a lot of listings from clubs and for clubs if lots of bowlers access the site. We hope you will advertise your participation in club newsletters and at club meetings, and use some of our drink coasters. If you have a club website we expect that you will put a link to getagameofbowls.com in a prominent place. In the near fture you will be able to get a freee RSS feed of the tournaments in your state which can then be an additional feature of your web site. What does it cost to list social tournaments? It will never cost you a cent to list social games. A social tournament 'costs' 1 credit. When your balance of credits fall below four you can 'purchase' an additional 50 credits for NO CHARGE What does it cost to list prize money tournaments? A tournament in which the total amount of prizemoney is shown 'costs' 2 credits. If you want the prizemoney shown in large red type it will 'cost' 5 credits Can we show the name of the sponsor of our tournament? Your sponsor's name will appear in the details of the tournament seen by any potential player who clicks on 'play'. There is no charge for this exposure If your sponsors would like their name to appear in the listings (and stand out in red), it will 'cost' you an additional 20 credits. Since you can get an additional 50 credits for free at any time, this costs you NOTHING, a very reasonable charge for up to 12 months exposure on a national web site!!! You could certainly use this to market your club to sponsors. There is a place on the tournament entry page where with one click you have the sponsor's name appearing in state listings. If you choose to show your sponsor's name on any tournament you will need to 'purchase' additional credits (again these will cost you $0). How do we get our tournaments to appear in the state or national featured listing? State featured events appear both in a separate list at the top of the state page and in the general listing and players can click to the tournament details page from either place. A state feature 'costs' an additional 20 credits. National featured events appear on the getagameofbowls.com home page and 'cost' an additional 20 credits. Since these features are provided at no cost perhaps we should have some criteria for deciding that a tournament is worthy of state of national featuring. I am generally happy to leave it up to the listing clubs. A reasonable standard for national listing is that the tournament would be of interest to players from another state. Hence any 'different' tournament such as a 'one day open singles' could be featured. Otherwise prizemoney would need to be over $2000. For state featuring prizemoney over $1000 If we have used all our free credits, how do we get and pay for additional credits? If your club has less than five credits left you will be told this after you make a listing and asked to purchase additional credits. These are priced at 50 for $0, 100 for $25 or 200 for $50. When you click on 'buy more credits' you will receive an invoice to print and hand to your treasurer and the additional credits will immediately become available. Your club is most welcome to use this free service to list every tournament you run. We do hope that many clubs will appreciate the benefits they are receiving from getagameofbowls and will choose to purchase 100 or 200 credits occasionally.

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