<div dir="auto">I agree with Dave. Parties don’t serve the purpose they once did since ppl travel for tournaments. So I’d say revisit it. A single day a year could be more appropriate. But it should be 100% opt in.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 11:36 AM Dave Hubbard via FSPA <<a href="mailto:fspa@fspazone.org">fspa@fspazone.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 10:41 AM Sergio Johnson <<a href="mailto:lostinthezone@gmail.com" target="_blank">lostinthezone@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto">Thanks for the feedback Dave and everyone else who has sent me direct emails. Not a ton of responses though so far, so please keep the opinions coming or it will be assumed that most of you are perfectly fine with the way things are going… :)</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Bad assumption. You can't assume that a non-response is a positive one. Many people don't even know this mailing list exists.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto"><div>In regards to the party, a lot of the feedback so far is that a commercial location doesn’t have the draw that a home party does. Understandable, however one of the goals for the party as originally designed was to give people a chance to meet others from different leagues. Is it better to have a smaller home party with people you know already or a commercial location where you have larger capacity but are seeing the same ole games you may have played in league?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I'd say it's time to revisit the party goals. Those of us that are still active in competitive pinball see plenty of people as we attend area tournaments. Mixing with others in the DMV pinball scene isn't a problem, if that's what you desire. The parties were a good way to mix 20 years ago when there wasn't much of a competitive scene, but we're not living in that world now.<br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)"><div dir="auto"><div>@dave I’m intrigued by your comment about attending when the party is “interesting” again. Can you expand on that? What would make it interesting to you?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Anything that doesn't amount to just "hang out at a bar that I can go to any time I want." Now that Spinners is temporarily down, I 100% guarantee that the "party" will just be hanging out at either Carpool or MSB for an afternoon, and it's been this way for years, just cycling between the same public locations. Yawn. If this is what people want, fine, I'm just one person. Give me an opt-out please.</div><div><br></div><div> --- Dave<br></div></div></div><div id="m_4786232727569238005DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br><table style="border-top-width:1px;border-top-style:solid;border-top-color:rgb(211,212,222)"><tbody><tr><td style="width:55px;padding-top:13px"><a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" target="_blank"><img src="https://s-install.avcdn.net/ipm/preview/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-orange-animated-no-repeat-v1.gif" alt="" width="46" height="29" style="width: 46px; height: 29px;"></a></td><td style="width:470px;padding-top:12px;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:18px;color:rgb(65,66,78)">Virus-free.<a href="https://www.avast.com/sig-email?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,83,234)" target="_blank">www.avast.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><a href="#m_4786232727569238005_DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2" width="1" height="1"></a></div>
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