[SBU Board] Fwd: Hi Monty

[JC Chupack]

Re: responding to the player, please do let her know that she can enter a
2-session event for a single session, but she is then not eligible for
overall awards, only the section awards (meaning, as Eric put it last
night, she could get an 80% game and be awarded ~1masterpoint at best). We
do not promote this on the flyers because players historically were
dissatisfied when they realized this kind of entry has limited eligibility.
(In one case, we had NLM players not understand that this meant they would
get lesser awards by using that option, and we ended up basically refunding
the entry via freeplays.) Single session entries for 2-session events are
not meant to be a feature...it's a remedy for rare situations where a
player requires it for some reason.  (It will throw off the 2-session event
in competitiveness and structure if overused, too, which is another reason
not to promote it.)

But...on the bigger can of worms...

I'm attaching the doc I wrote up on this a few years back when I
investigated a shift to single session events for the board.  It was
soundly rejected by the usual elite player concerns that motivate much of
our decision-making, including but not limited to rejection of a proposal
that we have the limited events offered as single session and just make the
open events be 2-session (because then the open players wouldn't benefit
from the B/C/D players in awards, as noted in the doc).

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 8:42 AM mlgrayjr <mlgrayjr at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> See the message below.  I have some ideas, but would welcome thoughts of
> other before I respond to Elaine.
>
> Monty Gray
> (206) 369-6444 (cell)
> (206) 283-7311 (home)
>
> -------- Original message --------
> From: Elaine DeShaw <eldeshaw at comcast.net>
> Date: 6/4/19 8:12 AM (GMT-08:00)
> To: Gray Monty <mlgrayjr at gmail.com>
> Subject: Hi Monty
>
> Hi Monty:
>
> Thanks for volunteering on the Unit.
>
> I have a question for the board:
>
> (the assumption here are single session entries are not allowed for
> Saturday and Sunday events at the sectionals, and if they are, it would be
> nice if that was written on the flyers)
>
> What is the downside (other than more work for the directors) for offering
> single session entries on all the Saturdays and Sundays of the sectionals?
> Could not these entries compete just like all the others but not be
> included in the overalls?
>
> It might generate more revenue for little extra work.  I am asking because
> I would like to play in single sessions (due to health-related constraints)
> and there may be many others that would play too.
>
> Respectfully submitted,
>
> Elaine DeShaw
>
>
>
>
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