<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">And Barb Nist's limited Mercer Island games.</div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ann Romeo<br>Personal email: <a href="mailto:annromeo@gmail.com" target="_blank">annromeo@gmail.com</a></div>
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<div style="color:black;font:14pt "Comic Sans MS",sans-serif">It's a great idea, JC. We could put some money in the winners' BBO accounts. Divide $446 by 4 or give each winner $44.60 We're pretty flush, according to Tom B.
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Subject: [SBU Board] Faux sectionals (e.g., Valentine's weekend) - how to broaden appeal?<br>
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<div>As I was putting together the publicity for the "faux sectional" we voted on last meeting for Valentine's weekend, I was thinking that one issue here is that unless you're going for the Jabon trophy (0-20) or Microsoft trophy (top 5% of area players), this event series isn't offering much for you. At our normal sectionals, we do a lot to make sure that there's things for I/N and for mid-level players via stratification and flighting.</div>
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<div>Does anyone have any ideas or thoughts or how we could make this interesting or engaging for the broader group of players? </div>
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<div>One idea Scott & I were tossing around last night was to create some "trophy points" races for mid-level and novice players, even though there's no actual trophy for those groups. We could use the GNT flighting/brackets (to avoid any implication that we picked to include or exclude ourselves in various brackets):</div>
<div><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif">0-500</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif">0-2500</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,appleLogo,sans-serif">0-6000</span> </li></ul></div>
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<div>So basically, we'd have 5 points races this year. Jabon would be if you start the year with 0-20. The three above would be for B/C/D. Then there's the "open" award which is the Microsoft trophy. And in any race, you can win the race above your level, just like when you stratify an event.</div>
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<div>I'd say we could also establish a youth award, except that the ACBL rosters don't give us ages, so I can't easily determine who qualifies for that. :)</div>
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