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

[Raymond Miller]

I just want to check my understanding of proposal 2.  We are on a very
tight timeline here.  Note that we have a 5 hour window between the start
of session 1 and session 2.  To add in a session 3 on the same time line
would make the start be 8:30.  So the only way I see this proposal working
is if we are planning on adding a session 3 that cannot be participated in
by people who play is session 2.  On the assumption that this is the
proposal, I have some reservations.  Do we really have a big enough
audience to offer a fast pairs that will specifically exclude anyone who
played in the 3:30 session ?  I am concerned that both sessions would fair
poorly.  People who really want to play fast pairs would be forced to miss
the afternoon session.   It would seem to me that it would be better to
arrange the start times for the three sessions in such a way as to allow
all to participate.  I'm not sure this is feasible, but how about 10:30,
3:00 and 7:30 starts for the three sessions?   See you all Monday.

Ray



On Wed, Sep 6, 2017 at 1:11 PM, JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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