District 14

TourneyTRAX

News about online information from ACBL, forwarded from our District 14 Director, Sharon Anderson.

Beginning Oct. 1, ACBL enlisted a team of part-time Tournament Directors to enter the Electronic Tournament Schedules for TourneyTRAX. Once a Tournament Chair has submitted a flyer or pdf file to the Tournament Department, it is then submitted to one of the TDs to look over, verifying legality of events and stratifications, or identifying any missing critical information. From there, the TD enters the data in TourneyTRAX creating the Electronic Tournament Schedule which appears on the ACBL website.

Once completed, the TD will email the Tournament Chair, Tournament Correspondent, and DIC asking that they proofread the schedule as it appears online. Any corrections should be submitted directly to that TD. If a Tournament Chair later decides to make any changes to the schedule, they must be submitted to Tournaments@acbl.org

We are excited about implementing this new process and are certain it will serve many purposes.  Our accuracy in entering the data should be much better overall, the communication with the TC and DIC will ensure better opportunities to make corrections, and it will be an opportunity to learn more about how tournament schedules are constructed for our part-time TDs. The process will evolve as improvements are made to TourneyTRAX, and we continue to receive feedback from Tournament Organizers. It is our hope that the end result will be better-quality schedules with reduced effort for Tournament Organizers, TDs and HQ personnel.

 

Dan Plato

Tournament Operations Specialist

662-253-3104

dan.plato@acbl.org

 

 

 

Report from Atlanta

Our District 14 representative to the ACBL Board of Directors, Sharon Anderson, has a report from Board meetings at the Atlanta Summer 2013 NABC.  

Thanks, Sharon, for keeping us up to date with the League!

Sharon Anderson in Puerto Vallarta

District 14 Director Sharon Anderson begins her term as ACBL President with a splash to Mexico!  Please read all about the beginning of Sharon's travels at her website.

Congratulations, Sharon!

Big news at ACBL.com! 

Congratulations, Sharon!  We are so very proud of you.

You've done so much for bridge in Minnesota and throughout District 14.  Since your election to the ACBL Board of Directors, you've been able to influence for the better nationally.  Now - you can focus your talents and energy at an even higher level.

Go, Sharon!

Top Ten Club Strategies for Success

As many of you are aware, 2011 ACBL President Craig Robinson recently completed his tour of 100 clubs in 100 days.  What did he learn from traveling around ACBL-land, meeting players and club owners?

Craig shared his Top Ten Strategies with District 14 Director and 2012 President Sharon Anderson.

Top Ten Club Strategies for Success

10.  Name Tags (makes people feel welcome)

9.  Get people involved

8.  Masterpoint races for the club

7.  Electronic scoring

6.  Limited Games with 5^th Chair Mentoring Program

5.  A website better than the ACBL website

4.  Food/parties

3.  Help with forming partnerships

2.  Duplimate—hand records

1.  Teaching programs

Seattle Board of Directors Meeting

Seattle was a great venue for an NABC!  With a fine playing area under one roof, affordable hotels, plentiful restaurants and lots of sights to enjoy when not at the bridge table, players will surely wish to return one day.  As for the business of our ACBL Board of Directors, our District 14 director, Sharon Anderson, has all the details.

At the end of her report, you will note that Sharon has one very exciting detail:  for 2012, Sharon will be the ACBL President!  Those of us in Minnesota and District 14 well appreciate what a wise choice the board made with their selection.  For decades, Sharon has been volunteering, working and competing in a myriad of wonderful ways.  We look forward to all that Sharon will do as Mme. President to improve bridge in North America.

Congratulations, Mme President!

Sharon with Mr. Wonderful - aka, husband Roger

Top bridge player, District 14 Director and District 14 Secretary-Treasurer, tireless volunteer, hostess with the mostess, mentor - and now - a new title.  ACBL president.

Congratulations to Sharon Anderson for becoming the leader of our bridge organization!  We wish you the best in your role. 

The ACBL is quite fortunate to have such an accomplished and highly competent individual at the helm.

From Two Into One

With our new District 14 website comes another change.  Sharon Anderson, our District 14 director, judged that it would be easier for members to have "one stop shopping."  Thus, her District director website is going to be retired.

Sharon will communicate with us frequently.  But, she will be doing so here at the District 14 webpage. 

If you would like to know more about Sharon, you can view her page on the right.  In addition, we will put up a new category linking to all of Sharon's post, so that they can be readily found.

We look forward to all the insights, news and stories that Sharon will be sharing with us.  And, as always, we welcome your thoughts, comments and ideas for improving bridge and communication in District 14!