Voting on the NAH Ruleset v4.0 is now complete, and votes have been tallied.
Before we announce the results I’d like to remind everyone in the community that this isn’t the end of Rules development. If you have constructive input to provide, after spending the time thinking through the changes critically, trying them out in tournaments or pickup, please e-mail kruse@nahardcourt.com or joe@nahardcourt.com. Plenty of great feedback was provided thanks to this club rep voting process, specific to the rules and more generally about the process. As we move more towards direct member voting, you will see specific rules or combinations of rules put to a vote, and possibly even a mechanism for anyone to introduce a polished rule to be voted upon. This infrastructure requires a huge time investment, and we are doing the best we can to put the pieces in place. More on that in the coming weeks.
The vote was sent out, by email to a mostly updated list of club reps.
Club Reps Emailed: ~110 (due to delivery failures, inactive clubs)
Respondents: 53
In favor of Adopting v4.0 for 2014: 47
Opposed to Adopting v4.0 for 2014: 5
1 Club Abstained. Non-Respondents are considered ‘yes’ votes, but it’s not necessary to include them.
The NAH Board voted unanimously in favor.
This ruleset has been Ratified, and we’ve made some minor language changes after receiving feedback from all these amazing Club Reps. From now on all changes will be kept in a version history over on the Rules page.