<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=iso-8859-1"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Patti has lots of connections with newer players and players who haven't played Unit events of any kind. Her thoughts make sense to me.<div><br></div><div>Tim</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 30, 2018, at 4:43 PM, Eric Sieg <<a href="mailto:easieg@gmail.com">easieg@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Good point on free
reducing the incentive to make sure they get their matches in. Maybe $10
off per participant under 20 points their first year (limited to $40
off, so always at least $20)?<br>
<br>
Eric<br>
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<span>Patti McCallum wrote:</span><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:#330099">It is worth a try if we can get
them interested. If we can increase the number of the beginners they
will be more comfortable playing and be more apt to return. Maybe not
free but reduced fees. If it is free they might not have incentive to
get the matches played.</div></div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 30,
2018 at 4:10 PM, Eric Sieg <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:easieg@gmail.com" target="_blank">easieg@gmail.com</a>></span>
wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi all,<br>
<br>
I had an idea I wanted to bounce off the board:<br>
<br>
Alan Tesler has a list of people who might be willing to give the Round
Robin a whirl. Many of these people have under 20 points (some only have
1 or 2). Before following up with him I had an idea but wanted to get
board approval first:<br>
<br>
Idea:<br>
<br>
1) Any Round Robin participant who has under 20 points gets their entry
for free<br>
<br>
OR<br>
<br>
2) Any Round Robin participant who has under 20 points gets X dollars
knocked off<br>
<br>
<br>
Can be a 1 time thing or permanent. Can also try it out and see how it
goes this year (if we did that) and adjust for next year as appropriate.<br>
<br>
Anyway, not sure if this is a good/bad idea or how much it would
actually matter to people. I thought it might be an extra incentive we
could mention as I reach out to people like Alan, David Dailey, Barbara
Nist, Nick Tipton, etc who might have connections with newer players to
help populate the round robin.<br>
<br>
Maybe thoughts/feedback/vote by email? We can also discuss this at the
board meeting on Monday night if there isn't an overwhelming consensus
one way or the other.<br>
<br>
Eric<br>
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