<div dir="ltr"><div>FWIW, I did think of another hypothesis for why we saw the biggest drop-off for the Swiss. What if people honestly gave Vasa Park another try because we noted it was remodeled, so they came out on Friday and/or Saturday, saw that it was still flawed in whatever way they particularly hate, and so blew off Saturday and/or Sunday, leading to a decline over the weekend as more folks decided it still wasn't meeting their expectations?<br><br></div>That is something that we'll get from the survey, though. I have no doubt the vocal anti-Vasa folks will let us know if they were disappointed with what they saw. :)<br></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 Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 5:51 PM, JC Chupack <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jc.chupack@gmail.com" target="_blank">jc.chupack@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><div><div>FWIW, we did discuss that specifically on Monday night. The most compelling reason to not do pairs & teams on that day is that whenever you have a pairs event with a team event and don't have separate rooms, the pairs event suffers noisiness when the teams are getting assignments and re-locating. Running pairs along with the teams happens a lot at NABCs and Regionals because they typically have the space to provide separation.<br><br></div>I'd also note that the event format itself didn't change year-over-year (YoY), nor was there any indication that it changed YoY. So, even though we all have heard feedback about reasons folks don't go to Swiss, I'd have trouble believing that the YoY drop-off is due to Swiss itself. It could be a factor, though, if the decision tree when some other big factor is at play (like weather or location), means that folks who aren't fond of our Swiss teams events anyways stay home. (i.e., "I am willing to deal with [Vasa Park, snow, etc.] for pairs because I like pairs games, but I'm not willing to deal with it for Swiss because I don't like that format.")<br><br></div>I'll do my best to address this somehow in the survey, but it can be very tough to tease out when a number of factors could be at play.<br><br></div>JC<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_8497814322823725030gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">--<font size="1"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:small" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><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"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 5:18 PM, LARRY HOLDREN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:larryholdren@comcast.net" target="_blank">larryholdren@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5">
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<div>When I got home Monday night, M asked about the meeting. I told her
that one of our concerns was the poor turn out Sunday at Vasa Park. Her
reaction was something like “no wonder, all you had was Swiss teams.”</div>
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<div>Maybe there is a point there. Perhaps one or two limited pairs games
and an open Swiss???</div>
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<div>Could a question on this subject be added to the planned survey?</div><span class="m_8497814322823725030HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
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