[SBU Board] Preliminary Financial Summary, 2018 Suntan Sectional at Kent

[Eric Sieg]

Feedback I heard:

Complaints on Saturday about the movement resulting in a 3 board sitout 
which the directors could have avoided by just combining into one larger 
section.
Complaints on Saturday about Matt's behavior. He was apparently at one 
point griping about how he hates Seattle sectionals.
Many (6ish?) comments about how badly balanced the field was on 
Saturday, primarily Saturday morning.
Also a complaint about how Matt failed to poll a hand for a director 
call. His answer was that everyone played the hands already since we 
played the same boards, but directors in similar positions can reach out 
to people away from the site who aren't playing. Not sure how I feel 
about this one since I think the director decision is pretty clear cut, 
but other people who know more than me about directing felt that this 
was pretty lazy behavior.
Some complaints about no round clock. Various people tried to fix this 
and I don't think anyone ever figured it out. Something to get figured 
out for sure before the next sectional.
No complaints on Sunday about Matt at all. My interactions with him on 
timing, boards, etc were all great. The rounds were a bit slow, but it 
seemed hard to ask Matt to enforce strict deadlines for rounds given the 
lack of a working round clock.

Lots of compliments about air conditioning
Some nice comments about how it was a nice location

Water solution seemed to work well.

Eric

Tim White wrote:
> The locker rooms were locked on Sunday — they offer additional, closer 
> restroom facilities.  Sunday evening during tear down I spoke with the 
> staff person who was doing custodian work and mentioned that we had 
> always had access to the locker rooms on Sunday of our prior rentals 
> and were sorry we didn’t this time.   Asked him to provide this 
> feedback to mgmt.  He said he works from the facility offices and 
> would pass along the feedback.
>
> It took quite some time Sunday evening for Renae and I to gather, 
> group, check, count and pack into cases the sets of boards that I 
> subsequently took to Sharon Erwin.  By the time we finished this task, 
> the pencil boxes were packed and loaded.  In additional to making up 
> the boards for our tournaments, Sharon has also been sharpening the 
> pencils.  This is a reminder that when we tear down we should think in 
> terms of keeping the cases of boards and boxes of pencils together so 
> they are all taken away by Sharon or — as Sunday evening — taken away 
> by one of us for delivery to Sharon.
>
> I head several comments that 56 board are too many on Sunday; this 
> concern was further aggravated on Sunday by the smaller than usual 
> number of folks who supported tear down.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
>> On Jul 16, 2018, at 11:28 AM, Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:annromeo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> My initial thoughts:
>>
>>   * It is never nice to lose money, but, it was a good tournament-- I
>>     saw players that normally don't come, and I think the I-5 traffic
>>     carfundle had some play in the low north end turnout. And a $500
>>     loss did buy us some south-end good will.  Next time, we might
>>     want to promote this a bit in the greater southend (including
>>     Portland)... just an idea.
>>   * We could have used more help with the breakdown and trailer loading.
>>   * Not having someone helping with partnership on on Sunday was a
>>     problem.  I think we always need someone manning the booth, so to
>>     speak.
>>   * I heard a couple grumbles about the start time on Saturday, but
>>     many more positive comments.
>>   * The a/c, while cold, was a pure blessing on two of our hottest
>>     days of the year.  This tourny brought home the desire to have
>>     a/c in July at our venues.
>>   * Staff at Kent Commons was GREAT--very helpful, accommodating
>>   * Water set up worked well (yeah, and thanks for all the shlepping)! 
>>
>> Ann
>>
>> Ann Romeo
>> Personal email: annromeo at gmail.com <mailto:annromeo at gmail.com>
>> Local home: 206-526-0871
>> Work email: Ann.Romeo at ORCInternational.com 
>> <mailto:Ann.Romeo at ORCInternational.com>
>> Work direct dial: 212-463-6331
>> My cell: 425-615-1413 (text ok)
>>
>> //**
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 1:47 PM, John Weinberg <judgejohn at msn.com 
>> <mailto:judgejohn at msn.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     ... is attached.
>>     Let me know if you have any questions.
>>     Also, if anyone has any further expenditures to claim, or
>>     (better) has additional income from the tournament to turn in,
>>     please advise.
>>
>>     JLW
>>
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