[SBU Board] 2016 Schedule of Events Flyer - for review - comment by 5pm 2/17

[Tim White]

JC,

I think this is an outstanding piece of work.

A few comments/suggestions:
- Our fall sectional venue is Kent (vs Whistler)
- Add the Fall NLM sectional (Nov 19-20), but please verify with Patti please
- At the district level, add District 19 Grand National Teams Finals (Mar-Apr) and District 19 North American Pairs Finals (Oct).  I suggest renaming the second section Regionals and Special Events (District 19).
- I'm presuming Kim will verify Trifecta dates
- I think there is Mercer Island Club game on Tuesday, but you're going to verify all club games.
- The Seattle Unit has logo that includes the Space Needle.  David likely has access to an electronic version as he includes it on the badges.  Perhaps this logo could be used on the flyer.

Thanks for doing this!

Tim


On Feb 15, 2016, at 3:52 PM, "JC (TsuKata)" <tsukata at tsukata.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> As discussed at the last board meeting, I prepared a 2016 schedule flyer that includes the upcoming events for this year and lists out our local club games.  Please review and let me know ASAP if there's anything amiss, be it wrong info or missing info or some other comment.
> 
> I'm going to send this same flyer out to the club managers for them to review that section, but don't hesitate to let me know about something missing or definitely inaccurate in that section.  I pulled the information from our website and the club websites (when available), so if it's wrong, I want to get it fixed.
> 
> Frequently Asked Questions (or at least, I think they will be):
> 
> Why break out the tournaments by type instead of providing one list?
> It's a little easier to read.  One long list gets tough to scan across or busy with lines if I make it a big table.  Also, it saves us from having to say what kind of tournament it is on each line, which gets repetitive (look at the ACBL's list for D19 with every other filter set to "all" to see what I mean).  Finally, because regionals are spread widely, nationals are spread even wider, but sectionals are right here, it logically shows why certain tournaments are included and hopefully helps head off dissent as to why we "left off" another nearby sectional or event. 
> 
> Why list the nationals?
> It's handy to have the dates for those, and it provides a very clear progression from nationwide to region to unit, heading off any inquiry as to why we included tournament X and not tournament Y.
> 
> Why isn't Rainbow listed and/or more SBC listed?
> Rainbow isn't hosting games currently, and SBC's games are limited currently.  (In fact, I'm going to have to confirm with Nick that what I've got is actually happening...there were conflicting things in different sources.)  I will make sure I get the actual correct club info from Nick before this goes to print, and I'll update our website with the latest when I have it, too.
> 
> Why not list exact start times for club games when known?
> Because these do change, get cancelled, or have special games, I want to ensure that people are forced to go to some other source to confirm before showing up somewhere and then angrily blame a flyer they got X months ago for not having the most up-to-date information.
> 
> But it's too hard to find this info on our website and/or this info isn't on our website?
> Once I get this confirmed, I'm going to update the website to match this but also include links and greater detail about the event.  It's on my "to do" list for this weekend.  I'm also going to do some minor work to make event listings a little more front and center in the site, as I've heard feedback from lots of folks (on and off the board) at this point that the number one thing they want from our website is tournament/club/event information.  (Number two, by the way, is information for new players or how to learn.)
> 
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