[SBU Board] possible new unit game idea

[Susan Cothern]

Sounds like a good idea to me.  I like the Friday evening idea, it's not
like folks have a lot of places to be or things to do these days, nice
weather or not :-)

Susan

On Fri, Jun 12, 2020 at 1:58 PM Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> Unit Game Meeting and Recommendations
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> Scott, Ray and I met on Wed, June 10, to discuss the possibility of a Unit
> sponsored game.
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> Before the meeting, I reached out to both Tracey Baer (who is on the board
> of D21, and is their Social Media mistress, as well as an experienced
> international player, who has a sense of what is going on across the
> country and internationally re different events); and to Julie Smith (our
> D19 rep to the National ACBL board).  Both ladies stressed that Sectionals
> are not allowed without a sanction from the ACBL, and that the best way to
> go would be to have something along the lines of a Unit game, rather than a
> “Sectional” or “Regional” or STaC.  These will not be possible without the
> blessing of the ACBL, and our district.  So, we need to think differently.
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> Tracey spoke of some of the fun events she played in through the World
> Bridge Federation’s women group, including a weeklong set of games: IMP
> pairs, MP Pairs, Individual event and game against the robots.  Julie spoke
> of two different games: one, is a summer-long team event, to determine a
> winner of an IMP league within Canada; the other, set up by Bruce McIntyre,
> was a MUG using a sanction from the Vancouver Bridge Club—they had a 34
> table game that gave out triple masterpoints (it ran during the special
> silver point week last month).
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> And Ray told us about what Eric Stoltz is doing in Portland: a three-team
> game twice a week, where each pair plays the others in a three-way match,
> basically home-style Swiss.  No points are awarded, and this event is
> wildly popular, with a waiting list of good players in Seattle and
> Portland/Northern California to play.
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> Ray, Scott and  I hit upon this option for us: a twice a month on Friday
> evenings home style team (Swiss) team game, where we place pairs into
> teams, and they play each other. Ideally, there will be a natural break
> within the pairings, so that this would be more bracketed than stratified.
> 8 players (or 4 pairs ) in each group…
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> We would not award points, but perhaps give out badges or have an
> imaginary trophy for the pairs that do well…..
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> Anyway, Scott and Ray are probably more articulate about what we want to
> do, but consider it bracketed home-stype swiss.
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> I think this would be fun, Nick liked the idea, but warned that summer
> evenings are not the most popular time for bridge….
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> What do you all think?
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> Ann Romeo
> Personal email: annromeo at gmail.com
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