[SBU Board] Outdoor tournaments

[JC Chupack]

Cards being able to be duped by machine into boards is a firm requirement
for a tournament. We are not going to do hand duplication.

In the winter, we'd have to worry about cold, and in the summer, we'd have
to worry about the heat waves that are now becoming more frequent. I'm
thinking back to when we had a tournament during summer at a site without
AC, and we had lowered attendance as well as complaints from attendees.  As
Bill mentions, our last sectional was a problem because of the cold.  We
had some mitigations to take if we used the site again, but it definitely
wasn't ideal.

Also, I did not think about it when we first brought this up, but handicap
accessibility is also an issue. We can't have tournaments in places that
aren't wheelchair accessible at minimum.
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On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:10 PM Bill Campbell via Sbuboard <
sbuboard at mailman.celestial.com> wrote:

>
> On 9/13/21 7:12 PM, Ann Romeo wrote:
>
> Just saying... lighting on a Seattle gloomy winter day, might be an issue,
> esp past 4:30.
> I think outdoors might be an option in the summer, but doubt it would work
> in the winter.
> But an idea to consider for sure.
>
> Considering how cold it was at our last Sectional in North Seattle, I
> don't think winter outdoors would work.  Certainly I don't think I would
> play or work at the tournament.
>
> Overall, I don't think outdoor tournaments would work.
>
> Bill
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