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Regarding time of day, I can confirm that scores for the normal robot games tend to be higher in the morning. I have tracked this fairly carefully over the last year.
But I have also noticed that hands I played in the morning in this weekend's practice tournament are replayed many more times over the course of the day.
Your observation may not be applicable to the championship tournament.
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Stratiflighted is a combination of stratified and flighted. Typically, the A players play in their own game, and B and lower together in their own game.
In a stratified game, all players are in the same game and A players can play against C players.
I think the answer to your other question is “ACBL pair games”.
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Yep, depending on location I pay from $12.40 to $24 for a club game, counting tolls plus a dime per mile of car cost. Buddy's even farther away than I am.
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We've had games in community centers for years in Houston.
The only job worse than running a full-service bridge club for little money is running a bridge club in a community center for no money.
But Jeff Bayone is right, IMO. Just getting a piece of the first year's membership fees would be chump change.
It might be more productive to give clubs that sign up members a piece of all sanction fees paid by the new member for the first year. Say 50/50. Then after the first year, ACBL would get the sanction fees. This would encourage the clubs to keep members playing (at least for a year).
If the sanction fee for a game is a buck, if someone plays 100 sessions in a year, that would be $50 per new member. Still not much money, but an improvement.
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Mine was the same as Randy's. I was very angry about what the directors did. I spent a great deal of effort promoting the event only to have my efforts undermined.
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Cincinnati (see AJ Stephani's comment) is trying a hybrid KO where the first two sessions are a round robin to qualify the top four teams to a KO. This would eliminate some of the schedule uncertainty as there would be no first-round losers to worry about. Third round losers would be able to play a 3/4 match. I would not be opposed to trying this format in Houston.
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I had a fairly large role in designing the schedule for Houston. The non-pro players loved it. Most of the pro players tolerated it. Some pros boycotted it, but that is their choice.
I am not sure about 4-session KOs being “revered”. As far as I am concerned they can die in a fire. They are super inconvenient from a logistical point of view. I tried to have the three-session KOs removed as well, but we will still have one next year.
Members of this site sometimes lose track of the fact that the majority of bridge players are not life masters. In order to generate the necessary table count, we have to have a schedule that caters to the lower players.
We had a prestige event on the schedule this year and it was all but ignored by the top players. We will not make that mistake again.
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I don't recall us allowing teams to play up in that tournament.
Timo's team had about 35K points and I believe that would have made the top bracket anyway. The top bracket was super strong, there were tons of great players stuck in the second bracket.
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But I have also noticed that hands I played in the morning in this weekend's practice tournament are replayed many more times over the course of the day.
Your observation may not be applicable to the championship tournament.
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Thanks for posting, Sam.
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The “based on” is true for team events (bracketed KO and RR, flighted Swiss, etc) as well as for pair events.
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In a stratified game, all players are in the same game and A players can play against C players.
I think the answer to your other question is “ACBL pair games”.
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Even $100K is completely ridiculous. It's just not needed.
We've got like $75K and that is plenty of reserve in case of an ice storm or whatever ruining our regional for a year.
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The only job worse than running a full-service bridge club for little money is running a bridge club in a community center for no money.
But Jeff Bayone is right, IMO. Just getting a piece of the first year's membership fees would be chump change.
It might be more productive to give clubs that sign up members a piece of all sanction fees paid by the new member for the first year. Say 50/50. Then after the first year, ACBL would get the sanction fees. This would encourage the clubs to keep members playing (at least for a year).
If the sanction fee for a game is a buck, if someone plays 100 sessions in a year, that would be $50 per new member. Still not much money, but an improvement.
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I am not sure about 4-session KOs being “revered”. As far as I am concerned they can die in a fire. They are super inconvenient from a logistical point of view. I tried to have the three-session KOs removed as well, but we will still have one next year.
Members of this site sometimes lose track of the fact that the majority of bridge players are not life masters. In order to generate the necessary table count, we have to have a schedule that caters to the lower players.
We had a prestige event on the schedule this year and it was all but ignored by the top players. We will not make that mistake again.
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Timo's team had about 35K points and I believe that would have made the top bracket anyway. The top bracket was super strong, there were tons of great players stuck in the second bracket.