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

Sat Jan 16 16:13:04 PST 2021

re newbies...why not have a I/N zoom game, on a Friday, with a zoom meet to
start, and offer a pairs game for newbies.
Of course, we can always do a captains pairs where we team an experienced
player with a newbie, but that is really a different type of game and
player.
Ann Romeo
Personal email: annromeo at gmail.com
Local home: 206-526-0871
My cell: 425-615-1413 (text ok)

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 11:28 AM Susan Cothern <4susancothern at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think what we have in place or are planning to put in place for the
> Jabon and Microsoft trophies is fine.  We need to focus on events for the
> C players and newcomers so that they will feel welcome and that their level
> players are important to the unit also.  Not that I am saying the unit does
> not feel they are important but I am not sure the C players know that the
> unit board takes them in to consideration and is trying to come up with
> events and or ways to get them more involved.
>
> Susan
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:33 AM JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> FWIW, the Microsoft and Jabon trophies literally come with nothing other
>> than the recognition. You don't even get to keep the trophy. :)  Once you
>> establish a prize, it's hard to take it away later without generating
>> disappointment.  Plus, BBO still has no process to gift BBO$, nor can our
>> clubs grant free entries through BBO right now.
>>
>> Regarding youth awards, to keep this manageable, we need it to be based
>> on information we can easily retrieve.  I considered whether we could use
>> the membership type to isolate youth members, but the problem is that youth
>> members who are part of their family's membership show up under family
>> membership types, not youth. (I verified this on our current roster.)  I
>> trust that the ACBL has good reason for not providing DOB to units, and I
>> can hypothesize several reasons why it might be that way that are not worth
>> challenging right now.
>>
>> If the youth bridge program(s) wanted to track points for their
>> participants (i.e., not the whole unit but only kids they have a
>> relationship with) and do a "points race" award accordingly, I think that
>> would be a good substitute since we can't do a youth race at the unit
>> level. Possible idea for our youth liaisons...
>>
>> --JC
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 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).
>>> Ann Romeo
>>> Personal email: annromeo at gmail.com
>>> Local home: 206-526-0871
>>> My cell: 425-615-1413 (text ok)
>>>
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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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>>>> * Seattle ACBL Unit 446 <http://www.bridgeinseattle.org/> President,
>>>> Web/Email Admin, & Publicity Chair
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