<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Sharon/Eric/et al,<div><br></div><div>I've had no previous visibility to this matter. While I'm not sure I get the "fairness" rationale -- some might deem it unfair that some players work and thus cannot even play or "hit" on Friday afternoon whereas Saturday is the most heavily attended day of each sectional -- I of course respect a decision taken on this by the board some time ago. It was probably taken at least 5 years ago, as I don't recall having heard it discussed or seen it documented -- perhaps it's in minutes of a board meeting. </div><div><br></div><div>Thus of course we should continue the existing process wherein Sharon (generously) acquires the points w/o grassroots premium and bases trophy race tallies accordingly.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm cc'ing the entire board on this as some are probably in the same boat as me -- had no awareness of this.</div><div><br></div><div>Tim</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div>On Mar 18, 2017, at 7:54 AM, Sharon Erwin <<a href="mailto:hilo2015sse@gmail.com">hilo2015sse@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Whenever there is a grassroots event, I usually ask the DIC for a separate tally of masterpoints for that event. There was a decision by the board sometime ago that masterpoints from that event should be factored down to level the field for players that did/could not play in those events for trophy awards.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 7:44 AM, Tim White <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trkwhite@gmail.com" target="_blank">trkwhite@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Eric,<br>
Not that I know of, and I don't know that that's ever come up. Extra points are routinely offered on Saturday as grass roots day and this is advertised on the flyer. Is there a feeling the incremental points for grass roots are tainted or diminished in some way? They count toward rank advancement and Mini-McKenney awards, so it's unclear to me why they should not count toward the Microsoft Trophy.<br>
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Sharon,<br>
Please see Eric's question below. For purposes of tallying points toward the Microsoft Trophy, is there or has there ever been a parsing out of incremental points arising from grass roots events?<br>
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Tim<br>
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On Mar 18, 2017, at 7:16 AM, Eric Sieg <<a href="mailto:easieg@gmail.com">easieg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> A question from the sweetheart sectional: Did we remember to ask the directors to provide masterpoint amounts from Saturday with the grassroots bonus removed for the purposes of the microsoft trophy?<br>
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> Eric<br>
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