[SBU Board] Mobile Internet

[Aaron Mohrman]

We've been putting up detailed results during the sectional for as long as
I've been attending them. This provides a few things the ACBL results don't:

   - People can review them during the tournament (ACBL results won't be up
   until Monday at the earliest.)
   - We post results for everyone, not just the people who placed.
   - We include matchpoint details that can be used to review individual
   boards and find errors.

During tournaments we get about 150 people a day visiting the site,
primarily to look at results.

I think stopping this service altogether would bring complaints from
tournament participants, but I could be wrong. We can discuss this in a
future meeting.

On Mon Feb 16 2015 at 4:59:24 PM John Weinberg <judgejohn at msn.com> wrote:

> At the end of the tournament the ACBL website lists everyone who won or
> "scratched" in every event.
> It also lists the total match points won be everyone who won any.
> I am writing this on Monday afternoon Feb. 16 - and the website shows all
> this information as to the Vasa Park tournament just concluded.
> To establish our own website, or link, or whatever it is, would seem to be
> unnecessary, both as to cost and effort.
> But what we SHOULD do is to be sure our members know of the website and how
> to gain access to it*; and we should make a real effort to ballyhoo our
> winners, new Life Masters, etc.
>
> JLW
>
> *I am sure you can all figure out how to get this info better than can I -
> the most internet-challenged person on the board!
> But to save you figuring it out:
>     www.acbl.org
>     tournaments
>     calendar and results
>     enter the date, place, type of the tournament
>     go!
>
> JLW
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim White
> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 4:25 PM
> To: sbuboard at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: [SBU Board] Mobile Internet
>
> Thanks for checking this out Aaron.
>
> Perhaps this is a topic for a future board meeting.
>
> Tim
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2015, at 4:17 PM, Aaron Mohrman <mohrman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If we wanted to post results from our tournament sites we could invest in
> > a mobile broadband device with service from T-Mobile and Verizon. This
> > would cost us $50 upfront, and $10-15 per tournament. Then someone could
> > directly take the results from directors and upload them to our website.
> > We would still need a volunteer to do it, so getting them posted before
> > the dinner break might be hard. But they would be up before the start of
> > the next session, and end-of-day results would be up immediately.
>
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