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

Fri Jan 29 14:57:58 PST 2021

Yes, what Tom said! We are fortunate indeed.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 2:36 PM Thomas via Sbuboard <
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> I could not agree more, Ann.  JC, we're incredibly fortunate to have you
> providing leadership for our unit.
> Thanks a bunch.
> Tom
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> From: Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com>
> To: Seattle ACBL Unit Board <sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com>
> Sent: Mon, Jan 18, 2021 12:26 pm
> Subject: Re: [SBU Board] Faux sectionals (e.g., Valentine's weekend) - how
> to broaden appeal?
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> JC, you are a talent and a treasure!
> 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 Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 11:04 AM JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Turns out I *can* figure out who the juniors are using the membership
> type field!  The folks I spot-checked had just slipped out of junior
> status.  So, I've added a Juniors points race as well. :)
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> On Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 3:05 PM Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Right, Intermediate/Novice.  Basically, folks under 300 points.
> 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 Sun, Jan 17, 2021 at 10:40 AM Carlyn Gauen <cgauen8 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> What is I/N?    Just now figured out that it might be Intermediate /
> Novice.   Am I right?
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> On Jan 17, 2021, at 10:35 AM, JC Chupack <jc.chupack at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I think I/N limited games are great ideas for us to consider for our
> future virtual tournaments, but we are pretty loaded with tasks and
> logistics for the February event as is. I'd prefer not to add another
> manually run event to the February weekend plans at this stage.  We are
> already very tight on having time to promote this, especially for a team
> game given that players have to find not one but three additional folks to
> play. If I have to hold publicity much longer so we can settle in on
> details for an I/N event, I don't think we'll get adequate participation to
> have made it worthwhile.
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> I also continue to be concerned about scheduling contingent with club
> games (which Friday afternoon would be), and I think that needs to be an
> ongoing consideration with these virtual events. My understanding is that
> participation in the BBO ACBL club games is dropping nationally though our
> local clubs have been able to hold relatively steady.  I'd prefer for us to
> maintain that trend in our area.
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> As for any other I/N events, I look forward to proposals brought to the
> board.  Let me know ~1 week before a meeting if you're (general you; any of
> y'all) bringing a proposal, and I'll make sure it gets on the agenda.
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> JC :)
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> On Sat, Jan 16, 2021 at 6:28 PM Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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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 6:22 PM Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> And lots of kids who may be willing to make the jump to tournament
> bridge.  If we pitch it right, an I/N sectional might be VERY popular this
> fall.
> 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 6:20 PM Ann Romeo <annromeo at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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)
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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>
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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>
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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,
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> 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.
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> Does anyone have any ideas or thoughts or how we could make this
> interesting or engaging for the broader group of players?
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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. :)
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> Thoughts?
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> JC
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