HMBIA think it’ll help both fighters and fans to make plans for events. The tournament map is available to all users of the site.
At the moment a preliminary launch of the calendar is taking place on botn.info site. The map includes several tournaments which were agreed on with organizers and team captains. According to representatives of the Tournament Committee, if someone wants to add an event to the single list, he/she has to send an e-mail (to HMBIA) giving all the details about the event. Every application is checked by moderators before a new event is added to the map. In future, the tournament map will refresh every week.
Soon, due to some new features of BotN’s site, HMB tournament organizers will get more freedom to act, which means an organizer will be able to add an event and accompanying information (time and venue, logo, categories, photos and event history) on their own. The description will also bear info about participants. It will motivate fighters, since there’s always an opponent they want to meet on the lists. It ensures a fighter has enough information before making a decision.
HMBIA supports and promotes competitions of different levels around the world. However, it has certain demands for tournaments: 1) a tournament should be open to all, regardless of what kind of club, organization or association a fighter represents; 2) at least one category of the tournament should be held according to the HMBIA rules and rules of the HMB World Championship “Battle of the Nations.” Concerning the second point, as representatives of HMBIA say, all tournaments are held according to those rules. So, no difficulties should arise.
- Sergey Tsymbal, Deputy of HMBIA President for international relations: