<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Good point, Tim. And I'm pretty sure we haven't had this date usually--I remember early August as our 'traditionall time' for the sectional.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">a</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Ann Romeo<br>Personal email: <a href="mailto:annromeo@gmail.com" target="_blank">annromeo@gmail.com</a></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 3:46 PM, 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"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">The D19 Tournament Coordinator has taken the position: "12-14 July is not available to you unless anacortes [sic] goes on a different week. The second Sunday in July is their traditional date.” I strongly suggest we not go to battle over this — we have apparently viable alternatives and it would be a battle we in all likelihood would lose. We run four open sectionals a year, Unit 439 runs one — Anacortes — and it has been anchored to the 2nd Sunday in July for years.<div><br></div><div>I think the idea of trying to get dates by preempting other units’ traditional dates, as a basis for arguing we are entitled to them, is not a good one. The D19 Tournament Coordinator is a party to the sanctioning process and would not permit units to do this, in my opinion.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div></font></span><div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Tim</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><div><br></div><div><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Jul 12, 2018, at 10:29 AM, JC Chupack <<a href="mailto:jc.chupack@gmail.com" target="_blank">jc.chupack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_7851129333515792703Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="ltr">+1 on all of Eric's mail & thoughts, including the question of why we have to give up July 12-14. Is it that Anacortes got a sanction in already or something? If that's the way we need to reserve dates, maybe we can talk through minimum requirements to submit so that we're on the schedule, even if we know location might shift.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_7851129333515792703gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><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"></span></font></span></font></font></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="1"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:small" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:x-small">JC Chupack<br></span></font></span></font></font></font><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="1"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:small" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:x-small">Senior Manager of Product Management, <a href="http://Amazon.com" target="_blank">Amazon.com</a><br></span></font></span></font></font></font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="1"><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"><a href="http://bridgeinseattle.org/" target="_blank">Seattle ACBL Unit 446</a> Secretary, Electronic Contact, & Publicity Chair</span></font></span></font></div></font></font></div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="1"><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"></span></font></span></font></div></font></font><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><font size="1"><font style="font-family:arial;font-size:small" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:x-small"></span></font></span></font></font></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 10:20 AM, Eric Sieg <span dir="ltr"><<a 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">
<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000">Comments on the
possibilities listed:<br>
<br>
A) I don't think this is worth considering. So many strikes against it.
It is REALLY soon after our KO sectional. There is a regional at that
time in our district. It follows immediately after Penticton which a LOT
of Seattle people go to.<br>
B) This seems like a good date, with the main strike being that it is so
soon after the KO sectional. This conflicts with a few sporting things
that might draw away a couple players (Kim and maybe Jeff would be at
hoopfest, I might be at a tennis tournament) but when I put on my board
member hat this seems like a good time.<br>
C) Will lose some people who are out of town, but seems good otherwise.<br>
D) Ugh. Right after Vegas? I second Matt's opinion that the attendance
would be poor. Vegas is an easy flight from Seattle and is typically the
most highly attended NABC location of them all.<br>
<br>
One question: why do we have to give up on July 12-14? That's typically
been our weekend and we've already lined up right of first refusal in
Kent. Can we approach them and say we already have a location locked in
and that's been our typical weekend for years? It seems like having a
history of going that weekend in past years would give us some sort of
scheduling rights to that weekend next year. If their site isn't
available that's one thing, but if they are just trying to poach our
weekend I'm not sure we should have to just give it up.<span class="m_7851129333515792703HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I too like the
date of July 5-7. I suspect this will work for Bothell--can't imagine
the union doing much over the 4th...might work for MI, too? But I also
believe that some of us will be out of town on an extended vacation due
to the 5th being a day off for most companies.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">a</div></div>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 12:45 PM, LARRY
HOLDREN <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:larryholdren@comcast.net" target="_blank">larryholdren@comcast.net</a>></span>
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<div>Hi all: My first reaction is that July 5-7 is intriguing. May be a
lot of people out of town but also a lot like me that want to avoid
traveling
crowds and a bridge game close to home sounds good.</div>
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<div>Larry</div>
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<div><b>From:</b> <a title="trkwhite@gmail.com" href="mailto:trkwhite@gmail.com" target="_blank">Tim White</a> </div>
<div><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 11, 2018 8:13 PM</div>
<div><b>To:</b> <a title="sbuboard@mailman.celestial.com" href="mailto:sbuboard@mailman.celestial.com" target="_blank">Seattle
ACBL Unit Board</a> </div>
<div><b>Subject:</b> [SBU Board] 2019 Sun Tan Sectional Update</div></div></div>
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<div style="font-size:small;text-decoration:none;font-family:Calibri;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;display:inline"><div><div class="m_7851129333515792703m_3073021199662662087h5">While
in the past I would have sent this email to Tournament Committee members
only, I
would like to update the entire board on information that bears on
alternatives
and the choice for the 2019 Sun Tan Sectional.
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<div>Unit 439 has confirmed they plan to run the 2019 Anacortes
Sectional on
July 12-14, 2019 — thus that weekend won’t work for us. That weekend
also
would have been the 2019 weekend we would presumably have had first
right of
refusal for with Kent Commons given our rental this coming weekend. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>I asked Matt Koltnow, D19 Tournament Coordinator, to weigh in on
(a) dates
for which he would OK a sanction for the 2019 Sun Tan Sectional and (b)
thoughts
on the dates, including attendance prospects. </div>
<div> </div>
<div>The window of dates for the 2019 Sun Tan is bounded on the front
end by
Penticton (June 10-16) and on the back end by Lynnwood (August 19-25).
In
between is the 4th of July; Anacortes 12-14 July; NABC Las Vegas 18-28
July. There is a regional in Eugene Aug 5-11 and a sectional in
Portland
(Vancouver, WA) Aug 16-18; though probably not untenable conflicts for
us they
are within a week of so of Lynnwood. Matt did not rule out either 21-23
June which will see either him or Jenni in Anchorage for the regional,
or the
dates of the Wenatchee progressive (7-20 July and 3 August).</div>
<div> </div>
<div>This appears to leave us with four alternatives as indicated on the
refreshed 2019 Tournament Planning Calendar, see link here:</div>
<div><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NYcdlwx2208f2eEXPqM0ZNTzdRzmhov6w4cdUG4SkN8/edit#" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/docume<wbr>nt/d/1NYcdlwx2208f2eEXPqM0ZNTz<wbr>dRzmhov6w4cdUG4SkN8/edit#</a></div>
<div> </div>
<div>(a) June 21-23. Falls within the dates of the Anchorage Regional
(see
note above). This would be only 3 and 1/2 weeks after our KO
sectional.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>(b). June 28-30. No conflicts.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>(c). July 5-7. No conflicts. Matt commented that "could well be
an excellent choice; it has the potential to have better than normal
Friday
attendance without the annoyance of the holiday itself.”</div>
<div> </div>
<div>(d) Aug 2-4. No conflicts. Matt’s comment: "it is the weekend
immediately after [NABC] Las Vegas. I think attendance at a sectional
that
weekend would be very poor.”</div>
<div> </div>
<div>I would like to ask focals to please check on availability of sites
on the
2019 dates above:</div>
<div>John — Kent</div>
<div>John — MIHS Upper Commons</div>
<div>Tim — Bothell</div>
<div> </div>
<div>All,</div>
<div>(Un)availability of sites will likely further winnow down our
alternatives. In the mean time, please give thought as to which 2019
dates
above you feel would be best for the Sun Tan Sectional.</div>
<div> </div>
<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Tim</div>
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