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ETA Annual Report
Review
There was positive feedback throughout the NTS
season from clubs about all aspects including the
rise in refereeing standards, atmosphere, logistics,
information and player experience. A much higher
proportion of NTS matches were dual refereed and
by full time refs. There are various requirements to
ensure that the learning from 2014 allows
tournaments in 2015 to continue this including
reviewing draws and continuing to ensure rules on
eligibility are followed, but on the whole systems
are now in place to administer the season so
improvements should be achievable with the continued support of the clubs that made a great contribution in
their feedback and advice throughout the year. There were no players suspended in 2015 through ill-discipline
and continuing to work on this aspect with clubs, through the performance and referees teams we will hopefully
ensure there are fewer players asked to leave the field at our tournaments.
One key success was providing an automatic scoring portal (following a simplified registration option for clubs)
which also tracks individual scorers and this developed into a visual portal on TV screens at events as well as
twitter integration. This will all be developed further for 2015.
Tournament days saw around 1000 requests to view live results of NTS/CTS and there were 684 unique players
who played in the 2014 series, very impressive numbers showing growth of our sport at all levels.

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