<div dir="ltr"><div>Cards being able to be duped by machine into boards is a firm requirement for a tournament. We are not going to do hand duplication. <br></div><div><br></div><div>In the winter, we'd have to worry about cold, and in the summer, we'd have to worry about the heat waves that are now becoming more frequent. I'm thinking back to when we had a tournament during summer at a site without AC, and we had lowered attendance as well as complaints from attendees. As Bill mentions, our last sectional was a problem because of the cold. We had some mitigations to take if we used the site again, but it definitely wasn't ideal.</div><div><br></div><div>Also, I did not think about it when we first brought this up, but handicap accessibility is also an issue. We can't have tournaments in places that aren't wheelchair accessible at minimum.<br></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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><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 dir="ltr"><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 (she/her)</span></font></span></font></font></font><br><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"><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://www.bridgeinseattle.org" target="_blank">Seattle ACBL Unit 446</a> President & Web/Email Admin</span></font></span></font></div><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">* Associate Director, Product Management at <a href="https://www.chewy.com" target="_blank">Chewy</a><br></span></font></span></font></div></font></font></span></font></span></font></font></font><br><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></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:10 PM Bill Campbell via Sbuboard <<a href="mailto:sbuboard@mailman.celestial.com">sbuboard@mailman.celestial.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">
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Just
saying... lighting on a Seattle gloomy winter day, might be an
issue, esp past 4:30.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I think
outdoors might be an option in the summer, but doubt it would
work in the winter.</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">But an
idea to consider for sure.</div>
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<p>Considering how cold it was at our last Sectional in North
Seattle, I don't think winter outdoors would work. Certainly I
don't think I would play or work at the tournament.</p>
<p>Overall, I don't think outdoor tournaments would work.<br>
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