<div dir="ltr"><div></div><div>Every piece of data we have suggests that this will end up being a large attendance sectional, between daylight hours on the weekend, Eastside location, preferred location (top ranked in survey), etc. which means this is our best opportunity to do this experiment without risking a negative balance for the tournament as a whole. Nick's recollection is 80% of the 199er, an event that frequently doesn't run because it doesn't have enough tables. That's exactly why we wanted to offer this kind of incentive. Those players are exactly who we want to encourage to play and they help fill out an event that we have trouble getting to run at our sectionals. Offering them free entries is a lot less hassle and likely cheaper than trying to arrange for a guaranteed 199er event, on-site lessons, or any of a number of other things that we'd do to get newer players at the sectionals.<br><br>But, we cannot keep delaying the event's finalization, and it will be January before we have another board meeting. Unless I hear a lot of affirmative perspectives given what's already been discussed, my default will be to remove the 0-20 free from this flyer when it's finalized on Monday (along with the other changes mentioned).<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div>JC<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">--<font size="1"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><br><span style="font-family:arial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:x-small">JC Chupack</span></font></span></font><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:x-small">* Find me on Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, or Twitter: jcchupack</span></font></span></font></div></font></font></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 12:59 PM, Ann Romeo <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:annromeo@gmail.com" target="_blank">annromeo@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I like the less than 5 for free play at this tournament. There are lots with less than 20....</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">BTW, todays turnout was very small--6 teams I think, and 6.5 tables in the pairs. Yesterday was good, today big drop off.....</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">romeo</div></font></span></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_2414439281710613296gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Ann Romeo<br>Personal email: <a href="mailto:annromeo@gmail.com" target="_blank">annromeo@gmail.com</a></div>
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<br></span><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 9, 2016 at 2:19 PM, Eng, Kim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Keng@forestridge.org" target="_blank">Keng@forestridge.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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they can see how fun they are, right? I think once a player has played enough to get 10 MP’s (remember…they are much harder to come by when you are new…I remember it took a few scratches to get me to “1”
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</span><b>Subject:</b> Re: [SBU Board] Sweetheart Sectional Flyer - for review<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Agree -- we should definitely change second session Saturday to 3:30.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Re, the note about players with under 20 masterpoints play free. Yes, we agreed to this at the recent board meeting, however some of us were discussing it with Nick yesterday at NSC. He was surprised and alerted us that in 199er games
at open tournaments his recollection is that on the order of 80% of the players have under 20 points. That's a lot of entry fees. Going to free plays for <20 points without qualification would make it hard to withdraw it later; the idea arose of calling
it a "special" for this tournament and then seeing it's effects. I'd like to hear John W's assessment of the potential long term financial impact of making the change permanent.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<b>Sent:</b><span class="m_2414439281710613296m_2809808696938949031apple-converted-space"> </span>Saturday, October 8, 2016 9:10 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b><span class="m_2414439281710613296m_2809808696938949031apple-converted-space"> </span>[SBU Board] Sweetheart Sectional Flyer - for review</span><u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt">Please review by 6pm on Monday. (In particular, Tim, since you're my co-chair, if you could sign off affirmatively, I'd appreciate it.)<u></u><u></u></p>
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