VCT 4 - Committee

It is a pleasure to announce that we have formed the VCT-4 Committee for conducting the 4th edition of Virtual Chess Tournament - Clash of Clans. People with proven experience in the previous editions are in the committee and we will gladly accept any help the rest of you can offer.

Coordinators – Jongs, Matcho

They are the main organizers of this tournament – VCT 4, and most likely for the next tournaments as well, unless they get engaged with other priorities of life.

So, please reach out to them for anything you need, be it any information or any help. Please also ensure that Coordinators are informed of everything that is happening in and around the tournament.

Some of the responsibilities of the coordinators in VCT 4 are –

• Registration of players for VCT 4. 24 players including the players from the previous tournament will be selected by the Coordinators for VCT 4. 
• Collection of funds and formulating the prize money distribution. List of prize categories will be published at the start of the tournament.
• Circulating the Rules and Regulations at the start of the tournament.
• Categorization of the 24 players based on chess.com ratings.
• Preparing VCT 4 Clans and Schedule of matches. Flexibility in a schedule will be the decision of the Coordinators.
• Consulting on a rematch appeal, if any match has been disrupted due to network issue. Decision of the Coordinators will be final on the possibility of a rematch.
• Coordinating the matches, including publishing the daily/match day schedule, initiating the matches and sharing the match result after each match.
• Distribution of prize money to the winners of each prize category.
• Ensure fair play in the tournament. Coordinators have the right to expel any player if found guilty. 

Yes, that’s a lot. Because VCT 4 is going to be a long tournament, Coordinators may at times, require volunteers. If you wish to be a VCT Coordinator someday in future, this would be a right time to support as a volunteer and understand the workload first hand from our experienced campaigners.

The Tech Guy – Avik

I will help the Coordinators to ensure that the Tournament is conducted smoothly, with an eye towards potential improvements in future. I will be providing IT support where ever required and beautify the tournament as much as possible with -

• The VCT 4 app – An excel tool for maintaining the schedule with automated solutions to update scores of each player/clan at every stage of this tournament VCT 4.
• Update the VCT 4 app with match results and publish the results of the leagues as well as the finals.
• Publish blogs as and when required by the Coordinators like - the rules and regulations of the tournament etc or if required by Match Analyst to publish the match reports.

Along with the usual suspects, we have three members helping us in organizing VCT 4 - 

Clan Leads: Maddy is one of the Clan Leads of VCT 4, along with Avik, Matcho, Jongs and will be accountable for all activities of their Clans including -

• Forming Clans through VCT4 Auctions
• Coordinating the matches of their respective Clans
• Distribution of prize money to Clan Members (if won)

Auctioneer: Auction for VCT 4 will be conducted by Anustup over an online meeting. Auction is a very exciting aspect of VCT 4, as it will determine the tournament structure. Clan Leads will submit the final Clan structure to Neha (VCT member not playing in VCT4), a day after the VCT4 Auction.