[SBU Board] Bothell Quick Look Post Morem

Tue May 29 08:05:46 PDT 2018

Jenni commented to me that we should add 0-200 events on Saturday and
Sunday based on how well they were attended on Friday.

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JC Chupack
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Seattle ACBL Unit 446 <http://bridgeinseattle.org> Secretary, Electronic
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On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 7:56 AM, Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Funny--I heard a complaint that it was too COLD on Friday, esp in the
> evening...from Barbara Nist!
> I, too, heard lots of comments about our start time, especially from out
> of towners who came to play in the tournament (Karen Rise, for one).  They
> preferred a much earlier start time.
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> In general, I felt the whole thing went very smoothly.   Our preplanning
> and hard work paid off.  10 tables up is excellent, given the nice weather
> and general downward trend in attendance here and elsewhere.
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> We need to have a refreshed restaurant guide, in a poster and in handouts
> for the crowd.
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> One thought--none of us acknowledged Memorial Day--why we have that
> holiday.  I think on Monday we need to recognize the vets in the crowd.  (I
> totally spaced on this), and I'd recommend we put that in the to dos for
> next year.
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> Ann
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> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Tournament chairs normally lead on the tournament post mortem.  As we
>> will not have a board meeting in June, I'd like to get the ball rolling.
>> Please add your observations and comments.
>>
>> We have a great relationship with Bev Colgrove of IUOE Local 302 (and
>> it’s important to maintain it).  She went out of her way to be extra
>> helpful this time – perhaps because we had been proactive to work with her
>> on setting aside windows of time during the weekend when the union could
>> meet in the classrooms if they needed to do so.  She set the latch on the
>> janitorial door to “unlocked” and taped it over with strapping tape to keep
>> it that way.  She put an extra note up for the IUOE’s weekend cleaning crew
>> to keep the door unlocked. She showed me how to shut off the flush valve of
>> the toilets in the event one continued to run (as apparently they have
>> recently).  We were able to introduce Monty to Bev.
>>
>> When we checked in a the front desk Friday morning to pay rental fees,
>> pick up keys, and ask for the microphone, we also asked Bev if there was a
>> kitchen cart we could use to help in our hospitality effort.  She opened
>> the kitchen and got a cart out for us.  When the tournament concludes, we
>> leave it in the hallway down toward the janitorial closet.
>>
>> The team did a fine job with setting up, running the sessions, and
>> tearing down.  Mike and I stayed well coordinated on custody of the
>> facility key and the lead role on “last one out” at night and locking up.
>>
>> I heard many complements about the facility and tournament.  There was a
>> comment that is was too warm Saturday evening.  I checked the thermostat
>> and the temperature was 75 degrees.  The thermostat was set at 85 degrees
>> and in cooling mode – i.e. their was no air conditioning running.  Someone
>> had fiddled with the settings.  Our ability to set the mode and temperature
>> on the thermostat was one of our “secrets.”  Apparently the secret is out,
>> so this is something we’ll have to keep an eye on going forward.
>>
>> By far the greatest amount of feedback I got was on session start times –
>> lots folks said they wanted morning and afternoon.  Evening sessions were
>> even more poorly attended at this tournament than in the past.
>> Afternoon/evening session table counts: Friday 51.5/28.0, Saturday
>> 68.5/41.5, Sunday 38.5/21.0.  Discussed with Ann the idea of running
>> another unit survey on session start times – and this time to also ask
>> about which of our four tournaments would be most favored to have daylight
>> sessions vs. afternoon & evening.
>>
>> Mike, Ray, Eric and Tim caucused briefly with Jenni Sunday evening about
>> how to set up the Monday Swiss events.  Discussed bracketed vs partially
>> bracketed vs not bracketed and number of rounds and boards per round.
>> Actual set ups of course depend on number of teams entering, but it seems
>> like each tournament we end sorting out the general set up approach in real
>> time – something to address in a future board meeting.
>>
>> ACBL Live was down overnight Saturday night and again Monday night.
>> Directors were instructed to send game files to HQ for posting and
>> generation of emails with links.  As I write this Tuesday AM it is still
>> down.
>>
>> Mike and I (and Jenni) took a lot of pics of winners and sent them to
>> David W.  Not all winners wanted their pics taken.
>>
>> Table count and masterpoint list are not yet posted on ACBL website.
>> Preliminary numbers from Jenni on table count showed 331.0 tables vs. 321.0
>> last year.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tim
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