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

[THOMAS E. LAND]

Per Susan's note, one of the ideas the Hospitality people have been mulling is a mentoring program that could be part of the offering to newer players and to those joining our unit.
Tom

On January 13, 2021, at 9:02 AM, Karen Hudesman via Sbuboard <sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com> wrote:

I like it... also maybe more focus on the newcomers !!

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On Jan 12, 2021, at 11:32 PM, Carlyn Gauen <cgauen8 at gmail.com> wrote:



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:

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


-----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):

0-5000-25000-6000  

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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