Welcome to the ADMIN Guideline. Please follow these as we took our time to put them together


1. AS an Admin you are required to host 10 tournaments per week. A week is from Sunday to Saturday. Please pre-set your tournaments three days in advance.
If you have not hosted for 2 weeks in a row (without clearing it with the Head Admin (Capt_Icey), Co-head admin (TBA), or any of the Full Admin. Of course, we understand there will be times you cannot host. Let the Admin know so these rules can be waived.

~1st offense, you will be placed on vacation and you must contact the Head Admin or Co Head Admin (Capt_Icey) to discuss.
~2nd offense, you will be demoted to TD.
~3rd offense, you will be removed from staff.

2. All Staff And Member MUST HAVE THERE MESSAGER ON WHILE IN ROOM. This is incase we need to get ahold of you for a table.

3. As Admin's you will be required to handle disputes and you must do this in a professional and respectful manner.

4. Admins need to help new members with any problems that arise and help people join the league. Admin's should be nice and considerate to all the members and staff of the league.

5. Admins should Check-In daily and as team leaders. ADMIN’S MUST HELP AND SUPPORT ALL STAFF MEMBERS! We are a team. We must always work together without conflict and show respect for each other and the members. We do not expect you to be best friends with everyone however you must be civil to all members and staff. (There is no I in TEAM!)

6. Tournaments are to be moved after 45 minutes of not running it, do not let them sit there and not move them. Do not move a tournament before the 45 minutes unless there is an emergency and you did talk to an HTD or Admin team member about it.

7. Make sure you always pay attention to the lobby . If you must leave your computer, ask an HTD or another Admin if one is present to watch your tourneys for you. Also say BRB in lobby to the members so they will know you are not at your computer. Should an emergency arise get an HTD or Admin to run your tourneys for you. Make sure they know you are leaving before you leave the lobby.

8. All Admins Must Read Emails.

9. An Admin should inform all members to not go to the table without someone’s permission(KIBITZER / WATCHING), if you do not inform the members then they will not know.

10. All staff should be in lobby at least 30 minutes before their tourney starts.

11. Please DO NOT try and help your fellow TD's in the lobby with posting. If you believe the TD has missed something (give them a minute or 2 after you see it) then IM them and ask.

12. Please be considerate of the TD’S hosting before you and do not Start asking for players in yours until theirs are running. You must mention all tournaments before you and after you not just yours.

13. As an Admin you must be ready to step in and host tourneys of TD's who have been BOOTED / have an emergency / needs help. If they Don't show please just move the empty tourney out and you can add a tourney in that place, or you can Email out for a staff member to come into host.

14. All Admin’s MUST know how to run Double Eliminations and Swiss tournament. You are not required to host them but must know how to in case you need to cover one.
15. If you see a TD/HTD/ADMIN doing something you think is wrong please message them in a pm not in the lobby!

16. Admins are expected to help EVERYONE whether it is with an issue, or if it is with filling a tournament, they should always help.

17. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE DO WE SPAM OTHER LEAGUE LINKS IN P4C LOBBY OR IN ANYONE ELSES LOBBYS. ALL TD CAN SPAM LEAGUE LINKS IN THE SOCIAL ROOM.

18. Always remember that the players have bad days (we do too but we must not let them see it). Do not take these things personal as tomorrow they will love you as much as they did yesterday. PLEASE REMEMBER TO KEEP LISTENING TO MEMBERS ISSUES WHETHER THEY ARE OURS OR THEIRS.

19. Timer will be place on the MIA player from the starting of pairs: For an Example: if your pairs went out at 12:35pm after 3 mins that player is not at the table the timer must go on at 12:35pm not 3 mins after.

20. All staff must always have their Messenger on in the room.

21. If a staff member is hosting, there should be another staff member spamming for them, no hosting member should ever have to be spamming.

22. When running any REGULAR SWISS, you must NEVER remove the top players if they have won and want out of next round, they must be timed out not removed from the tournament!!!

23. When running a tourney and someone wants it to be a different game and wants for ex. Faceless to be changed you must ask all that is in the tourney if it is okay to change it to said other game before changing it!

24. Please do not have your CAPS UP if you are not hosting at that time. Caps should be brought up 15 minutes before you are scheduled to host unless you are covering for a hosting TD at that time.

25. Admins can help with Training New TDs and HTDs If your approved by Head Admins.

26. All Admins will be given a Job to do for Psycho 4 Canasta to help the Head Admin and Co Head Admin. This will become from the HA's.

27. Admins in Psycho 4 Canasta cannot Host in any other Leagues on Cases Ladder while you are an Admin in Psycho 4 Canasta.

28. An Admin works with the same toolset as the Head Admin and Co Head Admin, and Admin will be involved in the management of the league Under the Head Admin's.

29. In general, Admins oversee and train the regular tournament directors, ensuring that tournaments are running smoothly, and fill in for any HTDs or TDs who are unable to run their own tournaments. However, the exact responsibilities of an ADMINS are determined by the Head Admin's of a League.

30. MEETINGS ARE ALL MANDATORY (IF NOT ABLE TO ATTEND THE MEETING PLEASE LET AN ADMIN KNOW 24 HOURS PRIOR TO MEETING!
PLEASE REMEMBER TO KEEP DRAMA OUT OF THE LOBBY.
WE ALL COME HERE TO PLAY AND HAVE FUN.




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Updated: April 1, 2023

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