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

Sat Jan 16 18:20:17 PST 2021

We used to have an I/N chair to push these types of things for newbies thru
(I think Susan, me, David D, Patti were on it last).  This is a really
important committee--even more so in Covid times.  There are LOTS of new
players out there--take a look at the MiniMc and the Ace of C for the unit,
folks with 0-300 points....lots of new names, coming up in the limited
games at SBC and ESBC.

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 4:23 PM Susan Cothern <4susancothern at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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>
>> wrote:
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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.
>>>
>>> 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
>>>>
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>>>> 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
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> JC Chupack (she/her)
>>>>>> * Seattle ACBL Unit 446 <http://www.bridgeinseattle.org/> President,
>>>>>> Web/Email Admin, & Publicity Chair
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