[SBU Board] Fwd: 2018 D19 GNT Finals

[Tim White]

FYI, below is my quick look report out on this year's D19 GNT Finals.  Thanks Ray, Mike, Eric and Tracey for playing the event -- apologies if I left out anyone else who also participated :-)

I think there's an opportunity for a breakthrough in Flight C participation in next year's GNT Finals.  Eric has done a great job of getting Flight C teams lined up to play this year's U446 Round Robin -- nine at last count I believe.  The plan is for the spring 2019 D19 GNT Flight C Finals to take place in WA -- hopefully in conjunction with the Everett Sectional.  I suggest we work on encouraging -- in the right way in the right time frame -- our U446 RR Flight C teams to consider playing the 2019 D19 GNT Flight C Finals.  Over time, these two events might perhaps become mutually reinforcing in terms of building Flight C players' participation in team events -- noting that the GNT C finals are slated to alternate yearly between WA and BC.  Might also encourage more Flight C teams to get out to play our U446 sectionals.

(As a reminder, I will be away and largely out of touch April 17 - May 6.  I'll be back for the May 7 board meeting.)

Thanks,
Tim

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com>
> Subject: 2018 D19 GNT Finals
> Date: April 16, 2018 10:00:01 AM PDT
> To: Ralph Wilhelmi <Wilhelmi at comcast.net>, Don Wallace <donjw at shaw.ca>, Chris Cookson <chriscookson at shaw.ca>, Kathie Hoehne <Kathie.hoehne at gmail.com>, Nicholas Stock <ngstock at telus.net>, Ron Krueger <rwakrueger at yahoo.com>, "navy.golf" <navy.golf at comcast.net>, Steve Kasner <kasnerbruskland at comcast.net>, John Demeulemeester <demail at shaw.ca>, Karen Rise <chumstick2 at frontier.com>, Marv Norden <marv.norden at gmail.com>, Dudley Brown <dudley6855 at gmail.com>, Matthew Koltnow <matt.koltnow at acbl.org>, Jo Ann Smith <josmitty3952 at yahoo.com>, Sharon Erwin <hilo2015sse at gmail.com>, Jennifer Ballantyne <jaballantyne at hotmail.com>, Bruce McIntyre <ooga at shaw.ca>
> 
> A brief report out on subject event.  Open and Flight B Finals were held in Everett March 24 & 25 in conjunction with the Everett Sectional, Flight A in Vancouver April 14 & 15, and Flight C in Vancouver April 15.  Pics of the winning teams have been sent to JP Weber for posting on the D19 website.
> 
> Firstly, thanks go to Everett U437 and Vancouver Bridge Centre for being our host sites.  Both were great to work with and central to the success of this year's finals.  Thanks also go to the following folks:
> 
> Matt Koltnow for being our DiC both in Everett and Vancouver.
> 
> The U437 sectional tournament crew for all they did, including fantastic hospitality.
> 
> Jennifer Ballantyne for planning and providing fantastic hospitality in Vancouver.
> 
> Bruce McIntyre for VBC on-site support, including the bonus of applying his home-grown software routine to create hand records for boards that were shuffled for play.
> 
> Nick Stock for making the run to HSBC.
> 
> This year we had another bump in the number of teams participating -- see table.  It's especially encouraging to have more participation in Flight C.
> 
>  
> Open
> Flt A
> Flt B
> Flt C
> Total
> 2018
> 6
> 7
> 9
> 6
> 28
> 2017
> 8
> 6
> 7
> 3
> 24
> 2016
> 4
> 2
> 11
> 3
> 20
> 2015
> 3
> 4
> 4
> 3
> 14
> 2014
> 4
> 4
> 4
> 1
> 13
> 2013
> 4
> 4
> 4
> 2
> 14
> 2012
> 3
> 4
> 4
> 4
> 15
> 2011
> 4
> 4
> 4
> 3
> 15
> 2010
> 4
> 4
> 4
> 4
> 16
> 2009
> 4
> 4
> 4
> 4
> 16
> 2008
> 4
> 2
> 8
> 2
> 16
>  
> Un-shaded
> BC
> Shaded
> WA
>  
> As the D19 board discussed in Burnaby, going forward we have headwinds in terms of GNT and NAP Finals sites in WA and BC and the loss of the Marking by Pianola tool for email blasts.
> 
> Tim
> 

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