[SBU Board] possible new unit game idea
JC Chupack
jc.chupack at gmail.com
Thu Jun 18 11:19:22 PDT 2020
Admittedly, I had the advantage of having Scott explain it to me live
before I saw the email. Add to my "to do" list for the organizing
committee providing a description of the event. Run it by the board first
so that we can get feedback from the group on whether it's clear enough for
all likely levels of players.
Thanks,
JC
On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 9:37 AM Monty Gray <mlgrayjr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On initial reading, I didn’t understand how the “homestyle Swiss” would
> work, and still don’t on re-reading; but I’m all for trying anything that
> might be popular with our members. If it bombs, not much is lost.
>
>
>
> Monty Gray
> (206) 369-6444
>
>
>
> *From: *JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, June 16, 2020 9:21 AM
> *To: *Seattle ACBL Unit Board <sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com>
> *Subject: *Re: [SBU Board] possible new unit game idea
>
>
>
> Agreed on a good idea and appreciate the research and effort! Thanks Ann
> & team!
>
>
>
> "Homestyle Swiss" sounds like a sandwich from Arby's. :D (That's not a
> criticism...I think it's a fun name! We should definitely call it that.)
>
>
>
> Ann & committee - could you put together:
>
> - A list of the first 6-8 dates and times that you want to hold the
> game, with who will be the coordinator or point of contact for each of
> those dates
>
>
> - Whoever is the coordinator needs to be okay with being listed as
> such on the website, with an email address as contact info at least
> - Ideally, we should also have the coordinator's phone set up on
> the Day of Tournament phone so players can use that as a means to contact
>
>
> - Instructions and rules for the website
>
>
> - Anything they need to do in advance (set up BBO account, set up Zoom)
> - How they can find a partner? Do we want to offer "partner
> guaranteed" and just have the coordinator be able to step in and play if we
> have an odd person? Since there's no ACBL points, we don't have to worry
> so much about skill/point-level matching.
> - What to do on the day-of or evening-of
> - What to do if something goes wrong (internet disconnect, etc.)
>
> Thanks,
>
> JC
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 4:56 PM Susan Cothern <4susancothern at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Scott, Ray and I met on Wed, June 10, to discuss the possibility of a Unit
> sponsored game.
>
> 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.
>
> 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).
>
> 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.
>
> 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…
>
> We would not award points, but perhaps give out badges or have an
> imaginary trophy for the pairs that do well…..
>
> Anyway, Scott and Ray are probably more articulate about what we want to
> do, but consider it bracketed home-stype swiss.
>
>
>
> I think this would be fun, Nick liked the idea, but warned that summer
> evenings are not the most popular time for bridge….
>
>
>
> What do you all think?
>
>
>
>
>
> Ann Romeo
> Personal email: annromeo at gmail.com
>
> Local home: 206-526-0871
> My cell: 425-615-1413 (text ok)
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sbuboard mailing list
> Sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com
> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/sbuboard
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sbuboard mailing list
> Sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com
> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/sbuboard
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> JC Chupack
>
> * Seattle ACBL Unit 446 <http://www.bridgeinseattle.org> President,
> Web/Email Admin, & Publicity Chair
>
> * Lead Technical Product Manager, Zulily <http://www.zulily.com>, Inc.
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Sbuboard mailing list
> Sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com
> http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/sbuboard
>
--
JC Chupack
* Seattle ACBL Unit 446 <http://www.bridgeinseattle.org> President,
Web/Email Admin, & Publicity Chair
* Lead Technical Product Manager, Zulily <http://www.zulily.com>, Inc.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/private/sbuboard/attachments/20200618/dd53c7e4/attachment.html>
More information about the Sbuboard
mailing list