[SBU Board] Reduced RR entry fee for newer players?

[Tim White]

Patti has lots of connections with newer players and players who haven't played Unit events of any kind.   Her thoughts make sense to me.

Tim


On Jan 30, 2018, at 4:43 PM, Eric Sieg <easieg at gmail.com> wrote:

> Good point on free reducing the incentive to make sure they get their matches in. Maybe $10 off per participant under 20 points their first year (limited to $40 off, so always at least $20)?
> 
> Eric
> 
> Patti McCallum wrote:
>> It is worth a try if we can get them interested.  If we can increase the number of the beginners they will be more comfortable playing and be more apt to return.  Maybe not free but reduced fees.  If it is free they might not have incentive to get the matches played.
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 4:10 PM, Eric Sieg <easieg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I had an idea I wanted to bounce off the board:
>> 
>> Alan Tesler has a list of people who might be willing to give the Round Robin a whirl. Many of these people have under 20 points (some only have 1 or 2). Before following up with him I had an idea but wanted to get board approval first:
>> 
>> Idea:
>> 
>> 1) Any Round Robin participant who has under 20 points gets their entry for free
>> 
>> OR
>> 
>> 2) Any Round Robin participant who has under 20 points gets X dollars knocked off
>> 
>> 
>> Can be a 1 time thing or permanent. Can also try it out and see how it goes this year (if we did that) and adjust for next year as appropriate.
>> 
>> Anyway, not sure if this is a good/bad idea or how much it would actually matter to people. I thought it might be an extra incentive we could mention as I reach out to people like Alan, David Dailey, Barbara Nist, Nick Tipton, etc who might have connections with newer players to help populate the round robin.
>> 
>> Maybe thoughts/feedback/vote by email? We can also discuss this at the board meeting on Monday night if there isn't an overwhelming consensus one way or the other.
>> 
>> Eric
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