[SBU Board] Bothell Quick Look Post Morem
Eric Sieg
easieg at gmail.com
Tue May 29 09:17:36 PDT 2018
I heard mostly positive feedback. Some comments:
1) Jenni seemed to think bracketed wasn't popular, but that didn't match
the informal polling I did. The B and C players I asked seem to like
bracketed and the ones who didn't just played the open (and enjoyed
that). Would be curious if others heard opinions or could ask B/C
players they know.
2) On the switch on Sunday to two sessions, I heard mixed comments. Some
A players didn't like it, but then again most of the A players
complaining were in the KO to the end so it didn't matter anyway. Others
seemed to like it. I'd be curious how many people who played in the KOs
then joined the evening pairs vs how many just went home. Polly/Sandy
mentioned they really liked the ability to play 1 session and then go
home instead of having to play two, so having single session events
might exacerbate the evening drop off: more people willing to play in
the afternoon but people are more likely to just leave instead of
playing in the evening.
3) Heard some comments on start times, but also some in the other
direction. One thing I hadn't considered was that with the nice weather
it can be really nice to have afternoon/evening because it lets people
enjoy the weather in the morning rather than being stuck indoors for the
entire thing. For example, I was able to play tennis Sunday for a while
before playing bridge which was nice.
Overall, complaints/etc seemed low and it seemed to flow smoothly from
start to finish.
Eric
JC Chupack wrote:
> Jenni commented to me that we should add 0-200 events on Saturday and
> Sunday based on how well they were attended on Friday.
>
> --
> JC Chupack
> Senior Manager of Product Management, Amazon.com
> Seattle ACBL Unit 446 <http://bridgeinseattle.org> Secretary,
> Electronic Contact, & Publicity Chair
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 7:56 AM, Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com
> <mailto: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.
>
>
> 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.
>
> We need to have a refreshed restaurant guide, in a poster and in
> handouts for the crowd.
>
> 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.
>
> Ann
>
> Ann Romeo
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> //**
>
>
> On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 10:34 AM, Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com
> <mailto: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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