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WADA FOUNDATION BOARD MOVES FORWARD WITH IMPLEMENTATION OF GOVERNANCE REFORMS

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)

On 16 May 2019 the World Anti-Doping Agency's (WADA's) Foundation Board (Board) held its first meeting of the year in Montreal, Canada. The 38-member Board – which is composed equally of the Sports Movement and Governments of the world – met to discuss progress regarding WADA's priorities and other important matters concerning the Agency and the future of clean sport. The full-day Board meeting, which was open to the media and observers, included a number of presentations, discussions and decisions.

On 15 May 2019, WADA's 12-Member Executive Committee (ExCo) met and made several decisions and recommendations, which then came before the Board.

WADA Presidential Nominee

At the start of the meeting, WADA President Sir Craig Reedie congratulated Poland's Minister of Sport and Tourism and former 400m sprinter Witold Banka who, on Tuesday, was nominated by the Public Authorities as their preferred candidate for the position of WADA President when Sir Craig stands down at the end of 2019. He also thanked Mr. Banka's opponent in that nomination process, Marcos Diaz, Vice-Minister of Sports of the Dominican Republic, and pointed out the positive and respectful way in which the process was carried out.

By way of response, Mr. Banka thanked the Public Authorities for the confidence shown in him by nominating him as their preferred candidate. He also thanked Mr. Diaz and stated that he looked forward to working hard with him and all stakeholders to strengthen WADA.

The new President will be elected by the Board at the fifth World Conference on Doping in Sport, which will take place in Katowice, Poland, from 5-7 November, and will assume the role for a three-year term from 1 January 2020.

Governance Reforms

The ExCo approved a detailed timeline for further implementation of wide-ranging governance reforms that were agreed at the November 2018 meeting with work on that progressing well.

In particular, the ExCo approved the appointment of an independent agency to identify and vet members of the inaugural Nominations Committee, which will have a pivotal role in recruiting and vetting candidates to occupy senior governance positions within WADA in the future, such as President, Vice-President, Standing Committee Chairs and members of the ExCo and Board.

Sir Craig said: "Any strong organization will constantly review its governance structures and, last November, the Board approved a raft of far-reaching reforms intended to make WADA stronger and fit for the future. An important element of that is the formation of a Nominations Committee to help ensure that the right people in terms of the requisite level of skills and independence, serve in those key roles within WADA.

"The review of WADA's governance model has been extensive and has clearly shown WADA's willingness to adapt. In an ever-changing world, WADA's role has grown and evolved since its current governance model was first formed. It is right that the structure should develop as well and should continue to be looked at in the future."

The range of reforms approved in November are part of the beginning of an ongoing process of governance review within WADA.

Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA)

Further to the ExCo's September 2018 decision to reinstate RUSADA as compliant with the World Anti-Doping Code (Code), both the ExCo and the Board received an update regarding management of the data and samples collected from the former Moscow Laboratory earlier this year.

Since the Board's November 2018 meeting, separate WADA delegations visited the Moscow Laboratory in Russia and, in January, extracted 24 terabytes of analytical data (equivalent to more than 24 million documents) and, in April, 2,262 samples, which were securely taken to a WADA-accredited laboratory outside of Russia.

The authentication process is still ongoing for some data but has already confirmed that a very high percentage of the data collected in the Moscow Laboratory is authentic and matching with the copy of the Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) that WADA's Intelligence and Investigations (I&I) had acquired through a whistleblower in November 2017.

Armed with this material, as well as other evidence, WADA's Intelligence & Investigations (I&I) has started providing International Federations (IFs) with evidentiary packages, which IFs will assess with the view to taking the cases forward as Anti-Doping Rule Violations. WADA will work in close collaboration with IFs and, in cases where IFs choose not to take action, the Agency will review the facts, discuss with the relevant IF and reserves the right to bring them forward to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Director of Intelligence and Investigations Gunter Younger said: "WADA continues to make real progress on this long-running and complex case. Thanks to the fact that we have been able to access the data and the samples, we are now currently in the process of building strong cases that we will present to International Federations. Indeed, we have already delivered some of those evidentiary packages and more will follow in the coming weeks and months."

Conduct at WADA Meetings

Yesterday, WADA issued a statement in relation to allegations of improper conduct by two ExCo members at its September 2018 meeting. The findings of the full, independent investigation, carried out by US law firm Covington and Burling LLP, were discussed extensively at the ExCo and presented to the Board by the firm today.

The related report, which is published in full, is available for everyone to read. In addition, the ExCo took the step of releasing the unedited recording of the meeting in question, as well as transcripts. This has been done in the interests of transparency and full disclosure and are the actions of an organization determined to lay bare the facts of the matter. At every stage, WADA has taken this matter extremely seriously.

The investigation found there was no bullying or harassment and the September ExCo meeting will consider the four recommendations made by Covington relating to the Agency's governance policies, training and protocols and is committed to making improvements as appropriate.

University Chair in Anti-Doping

The Board approved plans to establish a multi-disciplinary Chair on Anti-Doping and Sport at the University of Sherbrooke in Quebec, Canada, in order to respond to a demand for more education and research in this field. The intention is that this initiative will also create further partnerships with other universities in the world.

Clenbuterol

The Board approved an amendment to Article 7.4 of the World Anti-Doping Code which allows laboratories and results management authorities to close as "no case to answer" matters involving athletes testing positive for clenbuterol when established that it is as the result of ingesting contaminated meat products.

It has been scientifically established that an athlete can test positive for clenbuterol at low levels following ingestion of contaminated meat in a small number of countries where this is an issue.

The issue will be addressed in the forthcoming 2021 Code and International Standard for Results Management. However, until these instruments come into force, this interim solution is required so that valid meat contamination cases are dealt with fairly.

To this end, WADA will circulate details of this decision to all stakeholders in advance of 1 June when this amendment comes into effect.

OTHER MATTERS

Hosting agreement with Montréal International

Following the celebration on 15 May marking the extension of WADA's agreement with Montreal International for the Agency to remain in the city until 2031 at least, Canada's Minister for Transport, the Honorable Marc Garneau addressed the Board on the importance of WADA's continued presence in Montreal.

Mr. Garneau pledged the Canadian government's support for WADA and for clean sport, stating Canada's full confidence in WADA's ability to regulate and oversee the global fight to protect clean sport and committing to partnering with WADA in that process.

Sir Craig thanked the Minister for his presence at the meeting and for Canada's longstanding and ongoing support.

Athletes

The Board heard a report from Chair of the Athlete Committee Beckie Scott, including an update on the working group set up to look at the global representation of athletes with the view to strengthening the athletes' voices further on the WADA ExCo and Board. Broader consultation and the development of a new draft will be the next steps.

Fellow Athlete Committee member Ben Sandford updated the Board on the Anti-Doping Charter of Athlete Rights, which will be tabled for endorsement at the World Conference on Doping in Sport in November, as well as the proposal from WADA's Athlete Committee to create an Athlete Ombudsperson position for anti-doping matters. Discussions on this proposal will continue over the coming months.

Laboratories

The ExCo approved the application for King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to become a candidate laboratory as it seeks to gain WADA approval to carry out blood sample testing as part of the Athlete Biological Passport program.

The ExCo approved the removal of candidate laboratory status from the Anti-Doping Analysis Laboratory of the University of Chile in Santiago, Chile.

Code Review

The Board received an update on progress with the ongoing review of the Code and the International Standards, which continues as per the agreed process. The intention is for them to be approved at the 2019 World Conference on Doping in Sport and come into force on 1 January 2021.

Finance

The Board received an update on the finances of the Agency and approved the accounts for the year-end 2018.

Next Meetings

The ExCo will next meet on 23 September in Tokyo, Japan. The ExCo and Board will both hold meetings during the World Conference on Doping in Sport in November in Katowice, Poland.

Curse Of Enchantia - 20000 Leagues Under Quality Game Design

Written by Alfred n the Fettuc

One of the greatest things about The Adventure Gamer blog is that we have the opportunity to find out exactly how good the games we didn't play back in the day actually are. Sure, it's always great to read more about Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis or Monkey Island, but it's the unknown games that really get my attention. Sometimes you can find a diamond in the rough, some unknown great game. For example, it's thanks to this game that I finally got around to play Gateway and I don't regret one second of it, it was a great game! Sometimes, time has just forgotten excellent games that you never took the time to actually play.

And sometimes not. Sometimes games are forgotten because they are utterly horrible garbage.

Please tell me you've come to release me of my misery

I don't think a game has ever managed to piss me off so strong so fast. I've barely sunk an hour into it and it's already shown me the a nice selection of cardinal sins of game design. This game got it all : stupid puzzles, interface nightmare, grating music… and I think I barely scraped the surface of it all… my dear friends, I think it's going to be a long walk in the dark.

But first things first : Let's start at the beginning. Last time we left our beloved hero, he was shackled upside down to a cell wall by his feet. My only hope is that the hero is actually delirious from the blood gushing into his head and he would wake up eventually into a video game design company and after shattering the fourth wall, the game would become good… Not a chance? Maybe not, but it would make a great premise for an adventure game, wouldn't it?

So, let's first talk a little bit about the interface. I think if you look widely at 2D adventure game interfaces circa 1992, we have three main examples of successful interfaces. First we have the "verb and object" SCUMM system of Lucasarts, which in my mind is the most well known interface at the time. Created for Maniac Mansion and perfected with each iteration of Lucasarts games (removing the excess verbs), it gives you freedom to do whatever you think of without guiding you too much. The other example is the Sierra interface (post-parser) where you choose an icon (take, talk, use…) and point at something on the screen. Add to that specific icons depending on the game series (I'm thinking about the tongue in Space Quest or the zipper in Leisure Suit Larry) and you have another perfect interface giving you freedom and letting the developers go wild with anticipation on your nonsensical attempts at trying anything on anything. The third one is obviously the simple "point, click and something happens". It started with Gobliiins or Legend of Kyrandia (or anything more obscure) and would become the mainstream interface of modern adventure games. Less interactivity but much more simple. You just click on things and see something happen.

Now a little pop quiz : what's the common thing between these three interfaces? Watch out, the answer is going to be a hard one : You point and you click. This is why our beloved genre is often referred to as "point and clicks". It's because you point your mouse at something and you click. You would think it's the only logical way of playing a graphical adventure game, wouldn't you? Well you'd be wrong. Here, things are a little different.

The first menu (wait until you see the submenu detailing all the different "use" commands)

Clicking the right mouse button brings up a menu. Here you find several actions. From left to right : inventory, take, use, look at, talk, fight and… I don't know… jump I guess. Or cheer. We'll see. The three last are save/load, sound options and credits/percentage completed/points (yes there is a points system but we'll address this later as soon as I understand exactly what you have to do to gain points, which is still a little unclear for now). Until that, so far so good, right? But you can't take an icon, let's say the eye and look at your shackles. Not here. Here, when you click on an icon, it brings you to a submenu with what's surrounding you. And then you can interact.

e.g. : The shackles

At no time can you move your pointer out of this menu and click directly on the screen. It seems not so bad when told like that, but you have a few other things going. When you click on something that does nothing, you get a simple thumb down. The look option only serves as a matter to see what's around you considering there is no description whatsoever. And the worst comes when you're pretty sure you could interact with something but you can't (for example : the torch) or the other way around, where you can interact with something you never would have noticed (for example : the wall on the right beneath the water pool. No, I didn't see anything special about it but the interface allows you to interact with it, so it must be special in some way).

And now, my personal favorite : the submenu when you try to "use" stuff

And then when you can interact with something, you have the "use" submenu, which is baffling to say the least. You have, from left to right, the options to : use a key in a lock, use a keycard in a slot (or let's say putting anything in anything), pushing/pulling something, eating something, wearing something, throwing something, pulling? Or opening a drawer? And putting lego bricks onto each other. Okay, I admit my defeat, it's time to open the manual. Turns out I'm right about most of these icons, except the second one ("insert"… yeah different icon than "unlock"), the seventh one which is "give", and the last one which is "tie/attach". I'm a bit bummed out there is no actual lego brick involved.

Finally, and then I'll stop rambling about the interface because I feel a lot of you have already stopped reading, there is the "talk" option which only gives you two possibilities : Hi and Help. Turns out it's also the solution to the first puzzle because you have to yell "help" for the guard to enter and yell "SHUT UP" (in a way that I'm kinda surprised it's never been done into a meme) before exiting the cell and dropping the key by accident.

My guess is that the guard's voice was done at the end of beta-testing
by a guy who was listening at the music for a month too long.

The guard's animation is pretty funny, though. You can get
a glimpse of the key flying off on the left of the shackles.

So, let's get going. I hungrily grab the key and free myself of the shackles with the "unlock" function (yeah I've tried, the "insert" function gives you the thumb down). Then, going through the cell highlights the right wall as usable so I push it to discover… a paper clip! (which I guess, must have time/space-traveled from the same place I did) What do you do with paper clips, boys? You unlock doors with them! Thank god Brad appears to be a typical teenager with unlocking/thievery skills as they all are.

Thumbs up, Brad! You can now go break into the principal's office!

Exiting the cell, you enter a long corridor with some kind of weird one-legged monster jumping around, a locked door and a fishbowl. I knew from a first attempt at playing the game that you absolutely need the fishbowl in the third place you visit, so I tried going on without taking it… turns out the monster doesn't let you pass! On one hand it's always irritating to see two completely unrelated elements moving on the plot (the monsters leaves his spot because I take the fishbowl) but on the other hand, it seems this game doesn't allow dead-ends! Thank you Almighty adventure games gods!

Anyway, another weird thing about this game starts in this corridor : you have obvious dangers for your health that you can try to avoid (said monster for example, chases you with an axe, and giant knight statues try to crush you with their weapons) but it doesn't seems there is any consequence for getting crushed several times in a row. You still can't die, maybe points are being subtracted from my total but it doesn't seem to be the case. Add to this the fact that the corridor is full of gems and gold coins to collect for nothing else than added points and the whole thing seems like a very slow and pointless action-ish sequence. I go to the other end of the corridor trying to avoid the weapons of the knights and grabbing as much loot as I can, just in case it shows any use later on.

This is where I use my famous Latin skills and compliment the use of comic book onomatopoeia.

The other end of the corridor holds a door that opens on emptiness, Roger Rabbit style. Brad hovers a bit mid-air, then looks at the camera and shows a "HELP" sign before plunging into the waters below. For now I have to say that the cartoon slapstick comedy kinda works so let's hope it keeps going.

Fifty years after The Road Runner show and it's still funny.

Brad then finds himself underwater, which is the famous scene I was never able to pass as a kid. He starts turning blue immediately but wearing the fish bowl on his head makes him breathe underwater (don't try this at home, kids!) I didn't have the patience to wait ten minutes in order to see if he could beat Guybrush Threepwood in a snorkeling contest.

The fact that I don't have anything in my pockets doesn't really explain why I sunk
directly at the bottom of the ocean though… it must be a really heavy fishbowl.

I proceed to free the fish from its trap because that's what an nice adventurer would do and I explore my surroundings. I find a suspicious patch of dirt and burrow through it to find… an earthworm! Score! At this time the freed fish comes back to me and gives me a seashell. I'm reassured. I thought this action would remain altruistic and unrewarded! This is not the adventurer's way.

Thumbs up Brad! You now have an earthworm in your pockets!

A few more steps to the left and I find some kind of shop (including neon signs and all) that seem to sell an oxygen tank. Saying "Hi" to the shopkeeper shows that he wants an earthworm for it. So far so good. I give him the worm and… the shopkeeper swims away with the tank! What? Have I been conned?

So long and thank you for all the worms.

I'm sure that if I don't give the shopkeeper the worm, something completely unrelated would block my progress later in the same area but I really don't get what happened here… Anyway. I keep going and find myself in front of a nest of electrical eels with a big turtle hovering near them. My first try is to use the "jump" option on the turtle but despite a few tries, it doesn't work. I then try to give the turtle the seashell and it works!

To infinity and beyond!

The next obstacle on this VERY linear path is a huge shark coming from the west and pushing me away. I try a few things, including fighting it with the paperclip but to no avail. I try to look around a bit more which is pretty fast considering there is not much space to scan between the eels and the shark and I find a… weapon of sort… I want to say a flail? In a very obvious spot that doesn't bode well for pixel hunting later in the game.

Yep. Obvious.

I use it to fight the shark (which requires a few tries considering you have to use the "fight" option at a very precise moment when the shark charges you) and the shark is electrified!

So I guess it's more a taser than a flail… my bad.

A few more steps and… you know it… another obstacle! This time it's a huge oyster blocking the way. I try to put the taser in its mouth. But no, this time you have to jump over it. And if you're unlucky enough to choose the "jump" option when the mouth of the oyster is open, it simply doesn't work. Your timing has to be right for it to work.

Another problem solved!

Finishing this long path, I find myself in front of a huge bathtub plug. I can unplug it with my flail/taser/stick and I'm sucked into a cave. Ready for more adventuring!

Pictured : the lack of common sense and self-preservation
of the average adventure game protagonist.

And with that I think it's a good place to stop. Sorry about the short gaming time but I feel like my explanation of the interface already made this post way longer than expected. A last piece of rambling before you go… The underwater section is obviously made as a tutorial of sorts. You take a few steps, are in front of a problem and are usually handed the solution pretty easily. However, little Alfred never managed to get through this section. Maybe little Alfred wasn't too bright, which is a distinct possibility. However, my guess is that the game doesn't do a good enough job to give you incentive to keep going and that little Alfred's tastes were already honed by games like Monkey Island or Space Quest to not see the trainwreck of game design this game so blatantly is.

In these two short sections, we've already seen nonsensical scoring options, avoiding unnecessary dangers that don't do anything, one incomprehensible reaction from a NPC (the fish getting away with the tank I thought I just bought), pixel hunting, timing issues with the shark and the oyster, same grating music loop again and again… If these sections were supposed to show you a panel of what the game will have to offer you, I think we're in for a good time!

Finally taking my revenge on the underwater section after 25 years!

Anyway, see you next time, folks! And I promise more adventuring, less rambling!

Session time : 45 minutes
Total time : 45 minutes

Inventory : Paperclip
Score : 54
Percentage complete : 11%

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