<div dir="ltr">Sounds good to me also, thank you for putting this together.<div><br></div><div>Susan</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 6:34 AM Gene Gousie <<a href="mailto:gene.gousie@gmail.com">gene.gousie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Looks good. Thanks for putting the plan together.</div><div dir="auto">Gene</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 7:06 PM Scott Chupack <<a href="mailto:scottchupack@gmail.com" target="_blank">scottchupack@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Based on meetings with Jeff Ford, Ann Romeo and myself, we agreed on the following event plans. If you have feedback, please give it here, but we need to finalize and approve by <b>Thursday at 5 PM </b>so that we have time to publicize.<br><br><br><b>Sunday May 2 at Noon: Mentor-Mentee pairs game.</b> Are you a mentor or a mentee? Fate will decide. Based on masterpoints (with possibly some manual adjustments based on known skill levels), the field will be divided into 4 quadrants. Mentors in Q1 will sit North and their mentees will be Q3 players sitting South. Mentors in Q2 will sit East and their mentees will be Q4 players sitting West. Partners will all be selected randomly within each quadrant and you will not be able to lock in a mentor or mentee. Pre-registration will be online by Wednesday, April 28 and on Thursday, April 29, you will learn your partner and have a few days to discuss your conventions. Play will be on the RealBridge platform, and Jeff Ford will direct the game. Due to the "randomness" of the partner selection, only players below 500 MP will earn trophy points. This is to raise awareness for the 0-500, Jabon and Junior masterpoint races, while keeping the top players in a jovial non-competitive mood.<br><br><br><b>The weekend of May 22-23 May KO event</b>: Saturday's games are 3 PM and 7 PM, so as not to conflict with Nick's 12:15 game (assuming he still wants to run it).Sunday's games will be at noon and 4 PM. There will be an open and 0-2500 bracket. If we get enough teams (at least 5 above and below 500 MP), we will break the 0-2500 bracket into 2 groups.<br> The plan is to use a unique format to avoid the inability to run 3-way matches (and just to do things differently, since these are unsanctioned). Round 1 will most likely be played in a 1-session Round Robin Teams format in groups between 4 and 8 teams. The bottom teams in this 1st round will be eliminated. Of the remaining teams, the top half will be seeded into the bracket, while the bottom half will be assigned randomly.<br><br>For example, with 12 teams in open:<br>Round 1: the 12 teams will be divided into Pool A and Pool B, each with 6 teams.<br>Each team will play a 4-board match against each other team in their Pool.<br>5th and 6th are eliminated.<br>1A, and 2B will be on one side of the bracket, and 2A and 1B will be on the other side.<br>3A, 3B, 4A, and 4B will be randomly assigned to play one of these 4 teams in Round 2.<br><br>This event will be on RealBridge and be for Trophy points for all brackets. We will need to hire a director.for the event. The Open event is scheduled for 4 sessions. The 0-2500 event will be for 3 sessions, and if we have a 0-500 bracket, we will probably have the semis and finals as a combined session for max 2 sessions.<br><br><b>Trophy Point Club Games:</b> We forgot to discuss this, but I propose that we make the following days in May also eligible for Trophy points:<br>Sat-Sun, May 15-16 (Grassroots Weekend)<br>Monday May 24 (Start of Silver Point Week)<br><br>Again, we need feedback and/or approval by Thursday at 5 PM.</div>
_______________________________________________<br>
Sbuboard mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Sbuboard@mailman.celestial.com" target="_blank">Sbuboard@mailman.celestial.com</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/sbuboard" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/sbuboard</a><br>
</blockquote></div></div>
_______________________________________________<br>
Sbuboard mailing list<br>
<a href="mailto:Sbuboard@mailman.celestial.com" target="_blank">Sbuboard@mailman.celestial.com</a><br>
<a href="http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/sbuboard" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://mailman.celestial.com/mailman/listinfo/sbuboard</a><br>
</blockquote></div>