Currently available for BGA organisers of clubs, tournaments, etc, is the BGA Organisers’ Handbook [1]. This is available in the following forms:
The handbook is a very useful document outlining starting a club, publicity, teaching beginners, planning and running tournaments, including much technical detail about the McMahon tournament system and good practice for using a computer to run the draw.The GoDraw [5] program, for conducting a McMahon tournament draw is available from the software archive.
Tournament Levy Form (in PDF [6] or RTF [7] format).
Some promotional material [8] is available for club organisers.
Much of the following information is now collected in the Organisers’ Handbook; it is included here for quick reference:
Tournament Organisers’ FAQ [9].
There is also a brief guide [10] to the McMahon system, and a detailed description of the pairing algorithm [11].
For tournament organisers, a sample press release [12] written by Toby Manning for local papers.
Other advice [13] on publicising tournaments.
The BGA has a set of officially sanctioned rules [14] for tournaments.
Links:
[1] http://britgo.org/organisers/handbook
[2] http://britgo.org/organisers/handbook/handbook.html
[3] http://britgo.org/files/handbook.pdf
[4] http://britgo.org/files/handbook.ps
[5] http://britgo.org/gopcres/drawprog.html
[6] http://britgo.org/files/levyform.pdf
[7] http://britgo.org/files/levyform.rtf
[8] http://www.britgo.org/covers/covers.html
[9] http://britgo.org/organisers/tournamentsfaq.html
[10] http://britgo.org/organisers/handbook/tournament4.html
[11] http://britgo.org/organisers/mcmahonpairing.html
[12] http://britgo.org/organisers/release.html
[13] http://britgo.org/tournaments/publicity.html
[14] http://britgo.org/rules/approved.html