To encourage involvement in the Club, Priority Points are earned for volunteer activities undertaken by Members which benefit the Club. Priority Points are not available to Provisional Members. Priority Points are earned by Members during the calendar year preceding the winter booking period for the activites set out on Page 10. Other tasks may also attract Priority Points at the discretion of the Committee. You can register your interest in helping off mountain or outside the normal roles with the Bookings Officer.
From 1 January 2022, priority points no longer expire annually. Any points not used in 2022 have rolled over to 2023. When entered into Clubman, Priority Points are factored by 10 to allow the priority point booking algorithm to determine the minimum points required for a successful booking by a fraction of a point. You can check your priorty points and other details in Clubman following the menu: More>>User Settings and click the link.
Using Priority Points
When booking the Racing Round and Priority Rounds 1 and 2, if there are more booking requests than beds available for a particular Midweek or Weekend period each Member’s priority points will be used to allocate the successful bookings. Clubman will determine each Priority Round using the priority algorithm (with review by the Booking Officer, whose decision is final). If a Member has an issue with the booking procedure, they may write to the Committee. Priority Points are only used in the Racing Round and Priority Rounds 1 and 2.
Application of Points to Bookings
Priority Points will be divided by the number of people in your booking at all times (previously this was only on weekends). However, you don’t need to allocate points to each booking as Clubman will automatically determine the minimum number of points required to secure a contested booking. No Priority Points will be used for uncontested bookings. Please note, each of the 3 bookings in a Priority Round need to be in order of priority as Clubman will process everyone’s first booking request first, everyone’s second booking request second and so on.
Examples:
Say there were 5 beds available and 6 people with 60, 50, 40, 30, 20 and 10 Priority Points (factored after they were entered into Clubman) competing for the following bookings:
A. For the same Weekend or Midweek where each wanted 1 bed – the Priority Points required for a successful booking would be 11 (one more than the person who misses out) and the 5 successful members would be left with 49, 39, 29, 19 and 9 points. The person with 10 points would be unsuccessful and would retain their 10 points.
B. If we change Example A so that the Member with 60 points had 2 people in their first booking and everything else was the same, the cost would increase to 21 points as the Members with 20 and 10 points would both miss out but not lose any Priority Points. Remaining point balances instead would be 18, 29, 19, 9, 20 and 10.
C. If as their second booking in a Priority Round they all competed again, but each only wanted 1 bed as per Example A, the cost would be 10 as the person with 9 points misses out. Remaining point balances are 8, 19, 9, 9, 10 and 0.
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At the end of each Priority Round you’ll be notified of your successful bookings with payment due by a specific date to confirm the booking. If you choose not to accept a priority booking, there is no cost other than lost Priority Points. The points are used because your successful booking will have denied others those beds and contributed to the Priority Point cost of that booking.
Earning Points
| Role | Points |
|---|---|
| Senior & Deputy Party Leader Hotham (no Lodge Manager) – Mon – Fri (mid-week) – Part of mid-week or two day weekend | 40 20 |
| Party Leader – Falls Creek & Buller – Mon – Fri (mid-week) – Part of mid-week or two day weekend | 20 10 |
| Membership of USC – Every 10 years of membership | 20 |
| 2 day work party – Mt Buller/Porepunkah – Falls Creek/Mt Hotham | 40 60 |
| Committee or Sub-Committee work – per 4 hours | 10 |
Points are only awarded to the Member attending and fully completing the work party. Any additional family members or friends attending the work party are not eligible to earn points.