[SBU Board] Proposals for May Unit Bridge events

[Gene Gousie]

Looks good. Thanks for putting the plan together.
Gene

On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 7:06 PM Scott Chupack <scottchupack at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Based on meetings with Jeff Ford, Ann Romeo and myself, we agreed on the
> following event plans. If you have feedback, please give it here, but we
> need to finalize and approve by *Thursday at 5 PM *so that we have time
> to publicize.
>
>
> *Sunday May 2 at Noon: Mentor-Mentee pairs game.* Are you a mentor or a
> mentee? Fate will decide. Based on masterpoints (with possibly some manual
> adjustments based on known skill levels), the field will be divided into 4
> quadrants. Mentors in Q1 will sit North and their mentees will be Q3
> players sitting South. Mentors in Q2 will sit East and their mentees will
> be Q4 players sitting West. Partners will all be selected randomly within
> each quadrant and you will not be able to lock in a mentor or mentee.
> Pre-registration will be online by Wednesday, April 28 and on Thursday,
> April 29, you will learn your partner and have a few days to discuss your
> conventions. Play will be on the RealBridge platform, and Jeff Ford will
> direct the game. Due to the "randomness" of the partner selection, only
> players below 500 MP will earn trophy points. This is to raise awareness
> for the 0-500, Jabon and Junior masterpoint races, while keeping the top
> players in a jovial non-competitive mood.
>
>
> *The weekend of May 22-23 May KO event*: Saturday's games are 3 PM and 7
> PM, so as not to conflict with Nick's 12:15 game (assuming he still wants
> to run it).Sunday's games will be at noon and 4 PM. There will be an open
> and 0-2500 bracket. If we get enough teams (at least 5 above and below 500
> MP), we will break the 0-2500 bracket into 2 groups.
>  The plan is to use a unique format to avoid the inability to run 3-way
> matches (and just to do things differently, since these are unsanctioned).
> Round 1 will most likely be played in a 1-session Round Robin Teams format
> in groups between 4 and 8 teams. The bottom teams in this 1st round will be
> eliminated. Of the remaining teams, the top half will be seeded into the
> bracket, while  the bottom half will be assigned randomly.
>
> For example, with 12 teams in open:
> Round 1: the 12 teams will be divided into Pool A and Pool B, each with 6
> teams.
> Each team will play a 4-board match against each other team in their Pool.
> 5th and 6th are eliminated.
> 1A, and 2B will be on one side of the bracket, and 2A and 1B will be on
> the other side.
> 3A, 3B, 4A, and 4B will be randomly assigned to play one of these 4 teams
> in Round 2.
>
> This event will be on RealBridge and be for Trophy points for all
> brackets. We will need to hire a director.for the event. The Open event is
> scheduled for 4 sessions. The 0-2500 event will be for 3 sessions, and if
> we have a 0-500 bracket, we will probably have the semis and finals as a
> combined session for max 2 sessions.
>
> *Trophy Point Club Games:* We forgot to discuss this, but I propose that
> we make the following days in May also eligible for Trophy points:
> Sat-Sun, May 15-16 (Grassroots Weekend)
> Monday May 24 (Start of Silver Point Week)
>
> Again, we need feedback and/or approval by Thursday at 5 PM.
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