[FSPA] League questions - player opinions wanted

[Stephen Jonke]

I am not sure others would agree, but I would be more interested in the party (at a league location) if it had more fun tournament formats that you don’t get at IFPA sanctioned ones. Stuff like the gauntlet we used to have at volleyball house, though obviously that wouldn’t work at Carpool and such. But fun formats you don’t get elsewhere. Also you’ve got to advertise what the tournaments are ahead of time instead of “come and find out when you get here”.

Steve
On May 9, 2024 at 1:50 PM -0400, Dave Hubbard via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org>, wrote:
> > On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 1:06 PM Wei-Hwa Huang via FSPA <fspa at fspazone.org> wrote:
> > > One thing that we do that you could consider, though, is that our playoffs is also our end-of-season party.  We use a system (I devised) called Swiss Elimination, which keeps people playing in the tournament longer even when they've been eliminated from first-place consideration. If you are having problems with party attendance, having tournaments in conjunction with it could be a way to get that interest back. Especially if that tournament is IFPA-eligible.  Right now our playoffs are not IFPA-eligible, but we still give out trophies and awards based on those.
> >
> > I wanted to comment on this part, because the idea of having a tournament at the end-of-season party has been floated here already.  I don't think it works, because in order to be IFPA sanctioned, you must allow anyone to enter if they want to.  This means allowing non-party guests to enter, including people who didn't play league and/or aren't part of the FSPA at all, which would seem really weird for what is supposed to be a league party.
> >
> > I also feel this would take away from the party itself, as those making a deep run are basically just attending a tournament for the day, same as any other weekend tournament.  It also takes machines away from the rest of the party attendees, which isn't as fun for them.
> >
> > The idea to stage an event to draw interest is a good one, I'm just not sure an IFPA sanctioned tournament is the way.
> >
> >          --- Dave
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