Each competition should have one lead delegate.

[baseballjello67]

I saw this on the WCA forums and I thought I would post here!

Here's the link: https://forum.worldcubeassociation.org/t/each-competition-should-have-one-lead-delegate/24714

As said by Tim Reynolds,

There are a handful of tasks that are the responsibility of Listed Delegates. In addition to the usual during-competition roles, like handling incidents and scramble passwords, there are things such as:

• Reviewing the budget
• Sending the competition to WCAT
• Generating scrambles
• Keeping scorecards after the competition
• Submitting results
• Writing the delegate report
• Paying dues

At many competitions, there is an unofficial “lead delegate” who handles the items on this list. They will often add more Listed Delegates to help with day-of-competition duties. But the responsibility for all of these tasks officially either falls to all of the Listed Delegates. For Dues (in countries where the Regional Organization doesn’t pay dues) an arbitrarily selected one gets the email, but all are responsible.
According to the Code of Ethics, all Listed Delegates are expected to review the budget before announcement, but that doesn’t seem necessary for Delegates who only are only involved during the competition, or for WCA Championships where the organizers are contractually prohibited from sharing the budget.
If each competition had a Lead Delegate, all of these tasks could be assigned to that person, and nag emails + Dues invoices could be sent to them, which would be clearer responsibility assignment than today. It’s okay for the Lead Delegate to delegate tasks to other Listed Delegates, but at the end of the day the Lead Delegate is the one who gets in trouble if work isn’t done.