<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">8-ft centers is an ACBL minimum spacing guideline, as I understand. In practice, playing areas are seldom perfect rectangles with dimensions that are exact multiples of tables' spacing. And there's the need for director work area, entry selling, partnership desk, hospitality, and flyers.<div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 7, 2017, at 8:39 AM, Patti <<a href="mailto:pattimcbridge@gmail.com">pattimcbridge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><div><div style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">We have always considered 64sqft per table.</div></div><div dir="ltr"><hr><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">From: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:trkwhite@gmail.com">Tim White</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Sent: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">11/6/2017 11:10 PM</span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">To: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><a href="mailto:sbuboard@mailman.celestial.com">Seattle ACBL Unit Board</a></span><br><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: bold;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: Calibri,sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">[SBU Board] Sectional Venue Requirements</span><br><br></div>During this evening's board meeting I took an action to send out the sectional tournament venue requirements document. For any open sectional other than the summer sectional, the playing area is ideally 6,000+ square feet. For NLM sectionals, we need space for a minimum of 30 tables.<br><br>Tim<br><br><br></div>_______________________________________________<br>Sbuboard mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Sbuboard@mailman.celestial.com">Sbuboard@mailman.celestial.com</a><br>http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/sbuboard<br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>