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<DIV style="font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=jc.chupack@gmail.com
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<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [SBU Board] Fwd: Attendance on Sunday</DIV></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>I admit that I don't understand how anyone able-bodied could say they had
trouble finding/getting lunch for Vasa Park. (I did understand that
concern for Forest Ridge, just because the neighborhood there is so slow to go
in/out.) There are restaurants, including counter service, fast food, and
sit-down, within 5-7 minutes drive (under 2 miles) of Vasa Park. Restaurants
include Subway, Teriyaki, Outback, Jack in the Box, McDonald's, Dairy Queen,
McDonald's, Pizza Hut, Bombay House (Indian), and Southgate Garden
(Korean). There's a few more spots that I haven't seen personally, too.
And the roads to/from are fast and easy to drive.<BR><BR></DIV>The comments
about mealtime being short I can sort of understand, for folks who really
strongly want to be able to have a sit-down meal vs. something counter-service
or fast food. (And I can see both sides of whether having time for a sit-down
dinner is a thing that should be expected on a daylight schedule.)
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<DIV>Is there something I'm missing about Vasa Park w.r.t. getting food? I
played on Saturday & Sunday, and our group had no trouble not only having
lunch but doing a full postmortem while at lunch on both days. Even if I
were someone that needed extra time to get in/out of my car, you could get a
meal equivalent or better than what we'd be able to provide in the allotted
time. <BR></DIV></DIV>JC<BR>
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Jeff the other night, and he made the observation that a meal should probably
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<DIV>Hefg also made a goid point at dinner ladt night. We really shoukd
hsve lunch on site at that particular venue...pizza or sandwiches. It
will make swiss much smoother and faster. If I don't play...doable at
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<DIV>Date: 3/7/18 2:56 PM (GMT-08:00) </DIV>
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<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>
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<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>
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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
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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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