2012 Community Steward Team

[CQR Rogue]

The Online Racing Association is looking for 5 dedicated members from our community to join and run the steward team for our championships, with 3 stewards on call for each TORA race meeting.

We are looking for dedicated, level headed people, who can make appropriate and unbiased calls on stewards enquires.

Part of the reason we are asking our community for the support is we would like the staff to be taken out of the process and ensure the whole process is transparent to our community.

We will open applications today for the stewarding team, and these will be open for 2 weeks and close on the 13th of March 2012.

Please send applications in a PM to Duncan or Richy.

The staff then will decided upon applications received who will join the stewarding team.

Full details regarding the stewarding penalty system and what to expect from Stewards publications will be released over the next few weeks as well.

Please do not hesitate to ask any questions.

[Guest]

Can I make a suggestion. That part of the penalty system deal with helping improve offenders. As this is mainly a game and shunning people is not what we are about.

Maybe some sort of Training and relevant test that has to be passed to continue before handing out a suspension or a ban, aimed at helping repeat offenders become better racers and quicker too.

Just a thought, maybe slotted in a level above a suspension and or Ban.

[CQR Rogue]

Suggestions are welcome dude

All applications have been recived so far, for those who wish to apply please be advised entrys close the 13th March

[CQR Rogue]

Dear all,

Last day for applications, I will lock thread at 8 tonight and announce team tomorrow.

Thanks to all that have applied so far.

[CQR Rogue]

Dear all,

Sorry about the delay in letting you all know.

I would like to pass on my Congratulations too -

CQR Magictap, nickyf1, lfcnicklfc, BuckeyeBullet & garyp3398 who have all been selected as TORA Community Stewards.

Full details regarding the stewarding penalty system and what to expect from Stewards publications will be released over the next few weeks once the team have been set up.

A FAQ has been released by TORA staff -

- Who are the stewards?

CQR Magictap, nickyf1, lfcnicklfc, BuckeyeBullet & garyp3398

- What is classed to be an SI?

Any incident which is deemed by the racer in question to be questionable, deliberate or avoidable. This includes crashes, jump starts or corner cutting.

- Who to send SI's to?

Mark, Simon or Richy who will then make the information available for the stewards to deliberate over. The Staff members may also be able to acquired race replays, videos or pictures if you cannot provide them yourself.

- What happens next?

The Stewards will come to an agreement on the punishment and/or penalties that are to be handed out.

- What sort of penalties are given?

Time penalties, race positions stripped, laps added, qualification ban for the next race, race disqualification all to TBC

[Biggsy tv]

One thing covered in the podcast was the mention of:

What if one of the stewards is involved in a SI?

If one of the stewards are involved in a stewards enquiry they will not be allowed to place judgement on the incident one way or another. This also falls to the category of teammates, and friends.

[Guest]

Thanks chaps.

[JAMIE ANDERS0N]

Congrats guys, hopefully you dont have too much to do.

Sorry Gary I did not apply

[Ax4x Chaddy]

weel done guys, but you lose two stewards if Team Vodaphone have a incident lol

[lfcnicklfc]

One thing covered in the podcast was the mention of:

What if one of the stewards is involved in a SI?

If one of the stewards are involved in a stewards enquiry they will not be allowed to place judgement on the incident one way or another. This also falls to the category of teammates, and friends.

If you mean myself and Nicky then you simply exclude us from the investigation and leave it to the other 3 stewards, also if you don't think that 3 stewards are enough then ask 1 or 2 members of staff to join the stewards to make a decision??

Cheers guys as well glad to be a part of this

[Biggsy tv]

One thing covered in the podcast was the mention of:

What if one of the stewards is involved in a SI?

If one of the stewards are involved in a stewards enquiry they will not be allowed to place judgement on the incident one way or another. This also falls to the category of teammates, and friends.

If you mean myself and Nicky then you simply exclude us from the investigation and leave it to the other 3 stewards, also if you don't think that 3 stewards are enough then ask 1 or 2 members of staff to join the stewards to make a decision??

Cheers guys as well glad to be a part of this

I believe 3 members are enough to make a majority decision on any inquiry. So yea, for example nicky sends Travis into the wall at Sebring, lfcnick and nicky may not be part of the investigation.

Same goes for if Dan were to take someone out in an ISCC round, buckeye bullet may not have his say due to being part of the team in that series.

Even though we're sure that all stewards will make unbias decisions whatever the situation, we have to go this direction to avoid any possible accusations, etc.

[EZT Challenger]

Cheers guys, very excited to be a part of this!

This is a great step forward in professionalism for TORA, and it can only help us grow!

[ATR DAN]

HEY Simon! Why use me as an example? I'm about the fairest driver in this place!

Many congratulations to all of the new stewards and hope your new position isn't full of enquiries...hopefully!

[nickyf1]

weel done guys, but you lose two stewards if Team Vodaphone have a incident lol

Unlikely to ever happen because we are good drivers

But, yes, thanks guys! Been at TORA for what.. four years now? It's nice to have some role within the team. I look forward to making decisions!

Best behaviour lads, I don't go down lightly.

[Guest]

The team have been talking and we have our first announcement!!!

CHADDY!!!! WTF was that!!!

Only joking, just practising ;O)

[Ax4x Chaddy]

I probz will be 1st tbh, i proberly hold the record on here

[Guest]

lol, I knew you'd take it well matey ;O)

[Guest]

Hi all.

Just a quick up date on Stewards Announcements and Decisions relating to submitted and announced SI's.

Please feel free to continue submitting SI's, they are still being received and reviewed.

There has been a lot of work behind the scenes by Staff to bring the rules and regulations of SI's up to TORA standards. There is a pause on announcements and decisions until public version 1 has been concluded.

This will benefit all the community as will provide transparency and instruction for all.

Many thanks for your understanding.

Best wishes,

The Community Stewards Team

[CQR Rogue]

http://forums.theonlineracingassociation.com/t7279-steward-inquiry-procedure#124322

Please all see update

[CQR Rogue]

Hi all.

Just a quick up date on Stewards Announcements and Decisions relating to submitted and announced SI's.

There has been a lot of work behind the scenes by Staff to bring the rules and regulations of SI's up to TORA standards.

Public version 1 has been concluded and now can be viewed here -

http://forums.theonlineracingassociation.com/t7279-steward-inquiry-procedure#124322

This will benefit all the community as will provide transparency and instruction for all.

[CQR Rogue]

Dear all,

Latest Update from the community steward team -

We would like to welcome on-board or latest community steward member Steph aka SuperDuff, Steph has been highly involved with TORA for a good few years now, she is our reasonable adult and I would like to welcome her on board and the fact she has accepted our presidents arm-marriage that is more than enough to welcome her on-board.

Stewards: Conflict of Interest Transparency

What if one of the stewards is involved in a SI?

If one of the stewards are involved in a stewards inquiry they will not be allowed to place judgement on the incident one way or another. This also falls to the category of teammates, and friends.

TORA dictate 3 Stewards are enough to make a decision on any inquiry.

example: nickyf1 sends Gen3ral ts0 into the wall at Sebring, lfcnicklfc and nickyf1 may not be part of the investigation as they are friends. This leaves 4 Stewards of which only 3 are required to make a decision.

example 2: If Dan were to take someone out in an ISCC round, BuckeyeBullet may not be part of the investigation as they are in the same team for that series. This leaves 5 Stewards of which only 3 are required to make a decision.

Even though TORA is sure that all Stewards will make unbias decisions whatever the situation, TORA needs to include fail-safes and procedures to ensure all has been done to give the community transparency and avoid any possible bias, accusations, etc.

[SorrySmithy]

One thing covered in the podcast was the mention of:

What if one of the stewards is involved in a SI?

If one of the stewards are involved in a stewards enquiry they will not be allowed to place judgement on the incident one way or another. This also falls to the category of teammates, and friends.

guessing that will include clan members?

cos some of our clan members are *bleep* lol, but i would still give them preferential treatment in a SI if i was a race steward

[SuperDuff]

WE're currently running with an incident that falls into this category, and one of the stewards has stepped back out to allow the rest of us to review.

I don't think many of you know me, but I don't race with TORA (or in fact anyone), so have no clan to speak of. I would probably need to step out if there was an incident involving Matt though.

[Guest]

Its all in the Stewards Handbook Under Stewards: Conflict of Interest Transparency HERE

[CQR Rogue]

Dear all,

A position has become available on the Stewards team.

We are looking for dedicated, level headed individual, who can make appropriate and unbiased calls on stewards enquires.

We will open applications today for the stewarding team, and these will be open for 1 week and close on the 17th of April 2012.

Please send applications in a PM to Duncan

The staff then will decided upon applications received who will join the stewarding team.

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