[SBU Board] Grassroots normalization for microsoft trophy?

[JC Chupack]

Just to let Sharon & all know, Jenni still owes us reporting from the
Sweetheart sectional.  I asked her about it last week, and she couldn't
give an ETA but said she knows she needs to get it done.

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On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 8:16 AM, Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sharon/Eric/et al,
>
> I've had no previous visibility to this matter.  While I'm not sure I get
> the "fairness" rationale -- some might deem it unfair that some players
> work and thus cannot even play or "hit" on Friday afternoon whereas
> Saturday is the most heavily attended day of each sectional -- I of course
> respect a decision taken on this by the board some time ago.  It was
> probably taken at least 5 years ago, as I don't recall having heard it
> discussed or seen it documented -- perhaps it's in minutes of a board
> meeting.
>
> Thus of course we should continue the existing process wherein Sharon
> (generously) acquires the points w/o grassroots premium and bases trophy
> race tallies accordingly.
>
> I'm cc'ing the entire board on this as some are probably in the same boat
> as me -- had no awareness of this.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> On Mar 18, 2017, at 7:54 AM, Sharon Erwin <hilo2015sse at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Whenever there is a grassroots event, I usually ask the DIC for a separate
> tally of masterpoints for that event.  There was a decision by the board
> sometime ago that masterpoints from that event should be factored down to
> level the field for players that did/could not play in those events for
> trophy awards.
>
> On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Eric,
>> Not that I know of, and I don't know that that's ever come up.  Extra
>> points are routinely offered on Saturday as grass roots day and this is
>> advertised on the flyer.  Is there a feeling the incremental points for
>> grass roots are tainted or diminished in some way?  They count toward rank
>> advancement and Mini-McKenney awards, so it's unclear to me why they should
>> not count toward the Microsoft Trophy.
>>
>> Sharon,
>> Please see Eric's question below.  For purposes of tallying points toward
>> the Microsoft Trophy, is there or has there ever been a parsing out of
>> incremental points arising from grass roots events?
>>
>> Tim
>>
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2017, at 7:16 AM, Eric Sieg <easieg at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Tim/JC,
>> >
>> > A question from the sweetheart sectional: Did we remember to ask the
>> directors to provide masterpoint amounts from Saturday with the grassroots
>> bonus removed for the purposes of the microsoft trophy?
>> >
>> > Eric
>>
>>
>
>
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