[Deptheads] Fw: Strategicon - Gamex 2013 Phase 1

[Shane Sauby]

Thanks Neil.  I think we are going to be working toward that being on the sign in sheet or even color coding the sign in sheets to differentiate experienced from beginner events.

Shane Sauby
Dept. Chair Board Games




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 From: Neil Figuracion <fadtwentythree at gmail.com>
To: deptheads at strategicon.net 
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2013 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Deptheads] Fw: Strategicon - Gamex 2013 Phase 1
 

Hey Shane,

We used to have a column on the sign-in sheets. Is that missing now? I was in an advanced tournament with a first-timer who needed to learn the game. The player understood what they were getting into.

I think something helpful would be an official GM announcement at the top of each tournament the expected running time for all rounds of the event. Then printing this projection on the time-sheet would make things much clearer for players.

This information is already connected to the events when they go into the system. It would take very little effort (don't know the current sign-in sheet design) to add this on Lana's end. 

Hope that helps.

twenty-three-skidoo,

Neil Figuracion
Fad23




On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 10:27 PM, evil5757 at aol.com <evil5757 at aol.com> wrote:

At the risk of sounding like a historian, next meeting i can show you different ways it's been handled in the past to give you more options....
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>"Eric M. Aldrich I" <ealdrich at mac.com> wrote:
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>I've toyed with adding an "Experience" column to the schedule with the ratings 'A', 'B', 'E' for "Anyone", "Beginner", and "Experienced". The field needs to be filled out in the event entry. Right now we only have the latter two -- I'd have to add Anyone and make it the default.
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>On Feb 27, 2013, at 6:51 PM, Shane Sauby wrote:
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>Hi folks,
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>>    I received the anecdote below from a GM/player.  This issue has been one of the driving forces behind the 101 program.  However, is there a way to make it easily apparent inside the conbook when a tournament or event is an "experienced" event?  If players are made more aware of the "experience" connotation, hopefully they will be more interested in attending the 101 before the event.
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>>BTW, a general comment.   And this is what you can pass on to the powers that be, but from what I noticed in both playing and running games.    The book lists the game, but it doesn't information that you see when you register for a game.   Such as whether or not the game is for advanced or beginner level.    I noticed a few problems with people showing up interested in playing a game that they hadn't played, and that presented problems.        So I think if you could include the information that people see at registration in the booklet, especially things like if the game is for a beginner or not, I think it will present fewer problems for those involved.       I know for one game session, most of the people who signed up were experienced players and people really didn't want to play the game with beginners, partially because they figured the game would be with other experienced players.   And it wasn't a matter of people
 being stuck up as much as not wanting to play a game with people who had to learn the game at that moment and had not played it.
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