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

Sat Jan 16 18:20:55 PST 2021

And Barb Nist's limited Mercer Island games.
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 6:20 PM Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
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> 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 4:23 PM Susan Cothern <4susancothern at gmail.com>
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>> 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.
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>> Susan
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>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 4:14 PM Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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
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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.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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:
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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):
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    - 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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>>>>> * Seattle ACBL Unit 446 <http://www.bridgeinseattle.org> President,
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