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

[Carlyn Gauen]

Honestly, I think simple recognition would be thrill enough for many novice / C players, maybe their picture in the Sun.  How about winning a mentor game with a willing advanced / expert player?   Carlyn

> On Jan 12, 2021, at 11:25 PM, Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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).
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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
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>> -----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?
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>> Hi all,
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>> 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.
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>> Does anyone have any ideas or thoughts or how we could make this interesting or engaging for the broader group of players?  
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>> 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.
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>> 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. :)
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>> Thoughts?
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>> JC
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>> JC Chupack (she/her)
>> * Seattle ACBL Unit 446 President, Web/Email Admin, & Publicity Chair
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