[SBU Board] Round Robin Complications - Suggestions?

[Jeff Ford]

I’m not sure why they would be allowed to change their team after the
deadline other than to augment.

Jeff
On Wed, Apr 11, 2018 at 8:53 PM Eric Sieg <easieg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Shooting to board and some others who might have ideas because they know
> people :)
>
> I had a complication come up today. I had a B team lined up for a round
> robin of two pairs who were looking for teammates and were happy to play
> with each other. A few days ago (well after Round Robin signups ended),
> one pair informed me they wanted to play with a different pair. When we
> talked they said they were fine running it as a 6 bagger, which didn't
> seem like a problem.
>
> Today they informed me that they weren't okay with a 6 person team and
> were going to be a 4 person team with the new pair instead, which leaves
> the other pair who did nothing wrong on their own without a team.
>
> None of the remaining teams in B that are at 4 had expressed interest in
> more than 4 when I talked to them, so the best solution would seem to be
> finding another pair to make a new team. However, I'm not sure who else
> to reach out to at this point. Building the existing 24 teams exhausted
> pretty much all my ideas of people who might play or be otherwise
> interested in the Round Robin.
>
> However, while I know a lot more people than I did two years ago, there
> are still many that I don't know very well who could easily be
> interested. Does anyone have recommendations on people to reach out to
> or other partnerships that might be interested?
>
> As an FYI, here's the spreadsheet of current teams along with some names
> of people I've reached out to previously as part of the build process:
>
> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1SlskmZKO9jyk79fTaPe9NOmGEaHKfGXEfIPNAwVSGnQ/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Thanks for any help/suggestions/etc! :)
>
> Eric
>
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