I think there have been some great ideas here, if people were to "text" "twitter" and whatever else to a communal address this would bulk out the updates and less leg work for running round and getting chip counts etc, in fact I would most certainly volunteer to help and co-ordinate with updates if I cannot make the tournaments as more often than not I am sat in front of the pc except when I sleep
One more suggestion, if you are going to do something along these lines, it would be useful to have some sort of "idiot card" on the tables with details of how people can send in their updates if they want to. Pointless offering all this if people dont know where to send to