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IAAPA Local Chapter Information and Regulations

Part I - What is the IAAPA?

Part II - How do people play in the IAAPA?

Part III - How does one start a local chapter of the IAAPA?

In addition, IAAPA dues must also be collected. The Charter members must contribute a total of $50 (US) towards the chapter, to give it some funds to help promote itself in the local gaming community. One person will be appointed a President, another the Chapter Archivist, and the third the Treasurer. The term of these positions will be 1 year, after which elections will be held every 6 months. Presumably after the first year there will be more than the initial 3 starting members.

From that initial fund, a $25 (US) registration fee is paid to the IAAPA and in return a Chapter Starter Kit will be sent to the Chapter President. This kit contains 10 color posters to be put in local gaming shops and hobby stores to assist in recruitment, and a space for a local contact phone number, in addition to listing the IAAPA web site (http://www.axisandallies.net). Once a Chapter achieves Starter status, it will be listed as a locally affiliated Chapter on the IAAPA World Wide Web Site. The kit also includes originals of all the documentation required for properly recording games, information outlining the duties of all the government members and our newsletter 'Command HQ - The Insiders Edition' which contains information only for the executives of all the local chapters of the IAAPA, including feature articles from chapters as to what works and what doesn't in terms of recruitment, insider info from Hasbro, and much more). Finally it includes official documentation allowing you to incorporate as a non-profit organization in your local jurisdiction.

As the number of members in your chapter grows, a couple of things will happen. First, you will progress through various membership status levels...

3-5 Starter Chapter
6-10 Rookie Chapter
11-15 Regimental Chapter
16-25 Veteran Chapter
26+ Accredited Chapter

Every Chapter member (including the Charter Members) must pay an annual $5 (US) fee to the IAAPA organization. Half this money goes to the local chapter, the other half goes to the IAAPA (to pay for things like the web site server , tournaments, promotion, etc.).

Charter members will be repaid their initial investment out of members funds (so basically once you have 20 members the initial funds will have been paid back to the Charter members).

Once you have reached the status of Rookie Chapter, some benefits begin to become avaliable.

1) The right to hold local tourneys --- these must include at least 6 members, although not all the members need be members of the local Chapter. They all must have valid IAAPA memberships to compete. The form of the tournament will be as follows:

Round 1
Game 1: 1 v. 2
Game 2: 3 v. 4
Game 3: 5 v. 6

Round 2
Game 4: 1 v. 4
Game 5: 3 v. 6
Game 6: 2 v. 5

Round 3
Game 7: 1 v. 6
Game 8: 2 v. 4
Game 9: 3 v. 5

Round 4
Game 10: #1 overall v. #6
Game 11: #2 overall v. #5
Game 12: #3 overall v. #4

Round 4
Game 13: Winner Game #11 v. Winner Game #12
Game 14: Winner Game #13 v. Winner Game #10

2) The ability to challenge other rookie or higher chapters for inter-chapter tournaments

3) The privilege of contributing a regular article in the Command HQ newsletter.

Once you reach the status of an Accredited Chapter, you have the ability to apply to hold our Annual Tournament. Chicago is the location of the 2000 tournament, so anyone in that area who is a member should start getting active in the local chapter.

Typical Chapter Activities

You need a way to ensure people are kept active when they attend a chapter session. Keeping a partial game log is essential to recieve credit for the game, but when you have experienced players that will take a minute or two at most, since board updates are not needed. Here is a typical game log from a live game:

 USSR Turn #4 29 IPCs - 9 INF, save 2 Combat Ukraine (3 
G INF) Karelia 4 INF, 1 FTR Russia 1 FTR RESULT - Ukraine occupied with 2 INF 
Yakut (5 J INF) Evenki 5 INF, Novo 2 INF, Russia 3 ARM RESULT - Yakut occupied 
with 6 INF, 3 ARM (one fell swoop - I love dice!) Non-Combat Russia 4 INF to Karelia 
Kazakh 2 INF to Sinkiang Place Units 5 INF Russia, 4 INF Karelia IPC Chart USSR 
28/$30 GER 41/$33 UK 22/$22 JAPAN 33/$35 US 23/$23 

One way to ensure that members always have something to do is to play multiple games concurrently.

So if you have 2 players, both players play each other twice. With 3 players, each player plays each of the other players concurrently (2 games for each players). With more than 3 members, simply mix the groups of 2 and three appropriately. The easiest way to accomplish this is using a draw method so for example if there are 8 players you would write the number '1' on three pieces of paper, the number '2' on three pieces of paper, and the number '3' on two pieces of paper, yielding two groups of 3 playing each other and one group of 2 playing each other.

This should ensure a degree of randomness when the chapter starts to get of significant size.