[SBU Board] Attendance on Sunday

[Mike Christensen]

It was noted in the meeting, but upon reflection, I believe the biggest factor for the drop off was location.


A players have a high probability of turning out regardless of the location, as noted by only a slight drop off in attendance for the open Swiss.  The BCD and under 750 crowd's attendance however was decimated and I believe location and perhaps the threat of snow were the prime factors.  I refuse to accept that Swiss is unpopular :)


Cheers,

Mike

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Sent: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 2:51 PM
To: Seattle ACBL Unit Board
Subject: Re: [SBU Board] Attendance on Sunday

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<mailto: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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