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

Sat Jan 16 18:27:41 PST 2021

And, it might make sense to develop a I/N game for Friday nights we don't
do the Homestyle Swiss...to get them interested in playing in a safe
environment....we can start with the folks who play in the limited game.

I spent 3 hours yesterday helping an 80 year old woman who used to play f2f
bridge at some of the community centers.  She wanted to get onto BBO (we
did not succeed, a long story, basically because she does not have her
email set up and you need email for verification from BBO.  Instead I set
her up on OKBridge for now....  But I know there are others 'out there'
like her, who need help either with the internet or bbo in some why.
Another 80 year old, A player btw, doens't know how to use BBO for a
postmortem.  If she doesn't know, I bet there are a lot of others out there
who don't know how to take advantage of the various systems/tools/ out
there for us to use.  It would pay to offer tutorials or webinars on these
topics, or run articles in the SUN.

A

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 6:22 PM Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com> wrote:

> And lots of kids who may be willing to make the jump to tournament
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> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 6:20 PM Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> And Barb Nist's limited Mercer Island games.
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>> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 6:20 PM Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> 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>
>>> wrote:
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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.
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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...
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --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):
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>    - 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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