[SBU Board] Seattle Sectional at Sea - Sept 8-15, 2019

Sat Feb 2 18:53:23 PST 2019

I agree. It is killing our sectional and NLM regional. Please think of the
local venues

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 7:42 PM Marla Patterson <navy.golf.mp at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I agree.  We work hard not to step on each other’s toes, so outsiders
> shouldn’t get to do it either.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Feb 2, 2019, at 13:36, Kathie Hoehne <kathie.hoehne at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have long objected to the number of Regionals and Sectionals at sea. I
> Think they take away from the clubs particularly events at the more remote
> clubs like Anchorage. Apparently National has no intent of limiting these
> tournaments and their growth is pulling players away for events the land
> based ACBL clubs host.  Also the timing of these events does not seem to
> take overall schedule of the District they are near into account before
> sanctioning the event.  Maybe all the districts in coastal areas should ban
> together on this issue.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jan 24, 2019, at 4:23 PM, Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Colleagues in bridge governance,
>
> The surprising and disappointing scheduling and sanctioning of the event
> below is -- to say the least — unhelpful, given the Seattle Unit’s
> sanctioned sectional and concurrent I/N regional on Sept 20-22, 2019.
>
> I asked Matt Koltnow, D19 Tournament Coordinator, if he has knowledge of
> the process by which this “Seattle Sectional at Sea” was sanctioned.  He
> replied that these things used to come to him, but no more.  He has no say
> in them.
>
> Perhaps this is an issue that Seattle U446 might ask Julie to raise with
> ACBL HQ in the near term, and for the full D19 board and Julie to take up
> during our board meeting April 8 in Victoria.  It seems completely
> inappropriate to end-run the local unit and/or district when considering
> whether to sanction an event such as this sectional at sea.
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>
> *From: *"American Contract Bridge League" <emailservices at acbl.com>
> *Subject: **Seattle Sectional at Sea - Sept 8-15, 2019*
> *Date: *January 24, 2019 at 1:50:02 PM PST
> *To: *Tim White <trkwhite at gmail.com>
> *Reply-To: *"American Contract Bridge League ACBL " <
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> Dear Tim,
>
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>
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>
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