[SBU Board] Proposals for May Unit Bridge events

[Susan Cothern]

Sounds good to me also, thank you for putting this together.

Susan

On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 6:34 AM Gene Gousie <gene.gousie at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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