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

Sat Jan 16 16:22:29 PST 2021

I like the idea of a captains game and I think the C players would like a
chance to play with a more experienced player.  Both of Ann's ideas are
worth looking at further.

Susan

On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 4:14 PM Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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)
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> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 11:28 AM Susan Cothern <4susancothern at gmail.com>
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>> 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.
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>> Susan
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>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:33 AM JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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...
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>>> --JC
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>>> On Tue, 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).
>>>> 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:
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>>>>> 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?
>>>>>
>>>>> 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):
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>>>>>    - 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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>>>>> --
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>>>>> * Seattle ACBL Unit 446 <http://www.bridgeinseattle.org/> President,
>>>>> Web/Email Admin, & Publicity Chair
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