[SBU Board] Fridays at "Daylight" Tournaments - proposal summary

[JC Chupack]

Hi all,

One of the agenda items for our upcoming Sept board meeting is regarding
proposals that came up at the August meeting to consider modifying our
"daylight" tournament schedules.  There were two separate proposals that
I'll summarize below, both of which had some discussion at the last meeting.

If you won't be at the September meeting and have thoughts to share, please
send them over in advance so that we can consider before potentially taking
a vote at the Sept board meeting. Otherwise, this is mainly to ensure we're
all on the same page for the next meeting.


*Proposal 1 - Change the Friday schedule for our "daylight" tournaments
(Sweetheart & Suntan) to also be on daylight hours (10:30 & 3:30 session
starts)*

   - Why make this change:  trying to turn over the venue from a late
   evening session to early morning Saturday is challenging for all involved
   as well as for player attendance. Creates consistency for these tournaments.
   - Some arguments against:  eliminates "working" players ability to
   attend Friday, setup on Friday morning would start very early
   - To be discussed:  would we keep IMP pairs and BAM teams on the Friday
   2nd session schedule if we made this change?


*Proposal 2 - For our "daylight" tournaments (Sweetheart & Suntan), change
the Friday evening event(s) to Fast Pairs only.*  (If proposal 1 is
accepted, this would be a third session on Friday only.  If proposal 1 is
not accepted, the goal would be to alleviate the turnover issue without
shifting the 1pm session start time.)

   - Why make this change:  If proposal 1 is accepted, this would allow us
   to accommodate working players with a session while getting folks out early
   enough for a 10:30 Saturday start to be feasible.  Even if proposal 1 is
   not accepted, this would help alleviate the turnover issue for these
   sectionals.
   - Some arguments against if Proposal 1 is accepted:  adding a third
   session increases directorial complexity and noise in venue during the last
   few rounds of the 3:30 session.  Also, we would expect this to be low
   attendance. Is it worth the effort?
   - To be discussed:  fast pairs may be too challenging for limited event
   players.  So, if we did this, would we eliminate limited events for this
   session? If we don't, the benefit goes away.


Thanks,
JC
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