[SBU Board] Attendance on Sunday

[JC Chupack]

FWIW, we did discuss that specifically on Monday night.  The most
compelling reason to not do pairs & teams on that day is that whenever you
have a pairs event with a team event and don't have separate rooms, the
pairs event suffers noisiness when the teams are getting assignments and
re-locating.  Running pairs along with the teams happens a lot at NABCs and
Regionals because they typically have the space to provide separation.

I'd also note that the event format itself didn't change year-over-year
(YoY), nor was there any indication that it changed YoY. So, even though we
all have heard feedback about reasons folks don't go to Swiss, I'd have
trouble believing that the YoY drop-off is due to Swiss itself.  It could
be a factor, though, if the decision tree when some other big factor is at
play (like weather or location), means that folks who aren't fond of our
Swiss teams events anyways stay home. (i.e., "I am willing to deal with
[Vasa Park, snow, etc.] for pairs because I like pairs games, but I'm not
willing to deal with it for Swiss because I don't like that format.")

I'll do my best to address this somehow in the survey, but it can be very
tough to tease out when a number of factors could be at play.

JC

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On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 5:18 PM, LARRY HOLDREN <larryholdren at comcast.net>
wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> When I got home Monday night, M asked about the meeting.  I told her that
> one of our concerns was the poor turn out Sunday at Vasa Park.  Her
> reaction was something like “no wonder, all you had was Swiss teams.”
>
> Maybe there is a point there.  Perhaps one or two limited pairs games and
> an open Swiss???
>
> Could a question on this subject be added to the planned survey?
>
> Larry
>
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