[SBU Board] Attendance on Sunday

[JC Chupack]

FWIW, I did think of another hypothesis for why we saw the biggest drop-off
for the Swiss.  What if people honestly gave Vasa Park another try because
we noted it was remodeled, so they came out on Friday and/or Saturday, saw
that it was still flawed in whatever way they particularly hate, and so
blew off Saturday and/or Sunday, leading to a decline over the weekend as
more folks decided it still wasn't meeting their expectations?

That is something that we'll get from the survey, though.  I have no doubt
the vocal anti-Vasa folks will let us know if they were disappointed with
what they saw. :)

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On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 5:51 PM, JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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