[SBU Board] Faux sectionals (e.g., Valentine's weekend) - how to broaden appeal?

[Thomas]

It's a great idea, JC.  We could put some money in the winners' BBO accounts.  Divide $446 by 4 or give each winner $44.60    We're pretty flush, according to Tom B.TL


-----Original Message-----
From: JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com>
To: Seattle ACBL Unit Board <sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com>
Sent: Mon, Jan 11, 2021 8:28 am
Subject: [SBU Board] Faux sectionals (e.g., Valentine's weekend) - how to broaden appeal?

Hi all,
As I was putting together the publicity for the "faux sectional" we voted on last meeting for Valentine's weekend, I was thinking that one issue here is that unless you're going for the Jabon trophy (0-20) or Microsoft trophy (top 5% of area players), this event series isn't offering much for you.  At our normal sectionals, we do a lot to make sure that there's things for I/N and for mid-level players via stratification and flighting.
Does anyone have any ideas or thoughts or how we could make this interesting or engaging for the broader group of players?  
One idea Scott & I were tossing around last night was to create some "trophy points" races for mid-level and novice players, even though there's no actual trophy for those groups.  We could use the GNT flighting/brackets (to avoid any implication that we picked to include or exclude ourselves in various brackets):   
   - 0-500
   - 0-2500
   - 0-6000  
So basically, we'd have 5 points races this year. Jabon would be if you start the year with 0-20. The three above would be for B/C/D.  Then there's the "open" award which is the Microsoft trophy.  And in any race, you can win the race above your level, just like when you stratify an event.
I'd say we could also establish a youth award, except that the ACBL rosters don't give us ages, so I can't easily determine who qualifies for that. :)
Thoughts?
JC
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JC Chupack (she/her)
* Seattle ACBL Unit 446 President, Web/Email Admin, & Publicity Chair
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