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

[Ann Romeo]

I think we need to check to see if we can actually give away 'money'--make
sure it is ok with our state charter and ACBL?
And love the idea of a kid's trophy of some sort.  I know that for kids,
they have to give their DOB to get their ACBL number, so somewhere this is
tracked.
Love the idea of a flight A/B/C (or some such breakout).
Ann Romeo
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On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 11:15 PM Thomas via Sbuboard <
sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com> wrote:

> 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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> Web/Email Admin, & Publicity Chair
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