<div dir="ltr">I won't be there Sept 5, but the main thing I noticed with IMS is the lack of air conditioning. While it might normally be fine, if its a particularly hot weekend it seems like it could get pretty miserable with lots of people in a room. Not only could that cause the July sectional to fail, but also hurt our attendance at future sectionals for years to come. Olympia didn't have air conditioning last year and it was DREADFUL. Not only did attendance drop down to almost nothing on the 2nd day (8 tables in the main pair event on Saturday), but the people who I've talked to about it aren't interested in going back after it was so bad. They are putting "Air Conditioned Comfort!" in all their flyers to reassure people it won't happen again, but it will still likely hurt attendance into the future.<div><br></div><div>That said, IMS looks nice and I'm fine with that too. The location is certainly better for me and I'm not going to personally have issues regardless of how hot it is. It just seemed worth highlighting the risk.</div><div><br></div><div>Eric</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 28, 2018 at 9:26 PM Tim White <<a href="mailto:trkwhite@gmail.com">trkwhite@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Folks,<br>
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At our last board meeting we selected July 5-7 as the dates for our 2019 Sun Tan sectional. We have two sites to choose from for those dates — Kent Commons West Gym and Mercer Island Islander Middle School (IMS) Commons.<br>
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We are familiar with Kent Commons West Gym, having run three sectionals there in recent years.<br>
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Yesterday, Renae and I conducted a site survey of IMS Commons — a written report and pics are attached hereto.<br>
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Please review the IMS report and pics in preparation for making the site decision at our Sept 5 board meeting.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Tim<br>
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