[SBU Board] possible new unit game idea

Thu Jun 18 12:06:01 PDT 2020

I hope to have this all worked out by the end of the week, Monday at the
latest and will forward to you all.
Stay safe.
a
Ann Romeo
Personal email: annromeo at gmail.com
Local home: 206-526-0871
My cell: 425-615-1413 (text ok)

On Thu, Jun 18, 2020 at 11:19 AM JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>
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>>
>> *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
>>
>>
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>> 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)
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