Here's Dave White's plan for the online
virtual club. He mislabeled the Downey unit as 562 instead
of 564.
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I think this is where we're headed. Kicking it around a
little more won't hurt. When we pretty much agree, I'll
send it to Greg Coles and Rick Beye at ACBL for
implementation.
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Some of this plan has been in place for a few weeks and
it's success is why it being expanded. The plan pertains
to six units within District 23. In general these units
have few clubs, have no online presence, and little hope
getting such.
Unit 556+ club: Since the vast majority of players in
556 play at all four club, no pooling was necessary. The
Glendale club is the only club in Unit 553 has pooled
with 556. The Baja Gold Coast club (Unit 207) in Mexico
was started by one of our members, they pooled with Unit
556 also. This is a Master/Servant pooling as Unit 556+
runs all the games.
Units 562 and 551 have only one or two small clubs. Unit
559 has two large clubs but neither has created an
virtual club, nor are they likely to do so.
So a new virtual only club is being created for these
three units, the PasadenPomonaDowneyVBC. Yes say that
three times quickly. Morris Jones has started the
paperwork and I'll run the first games. This is also a
Master/Servant pooling.
None of the clubs in the six mentioned units host a
limited game. So to offer a limited game with the hopes
of more than one or two tables, a second virtual only
club has been created. It is the D23club. This club will
run only limited games. It is currently running 0-500
pairs on Sunday, with hopes expanding to teams on
Saturday.
Both the new PPDVBC and Unit 556+ will pool with the
D23Club. If done right D23Club will have everybody under
500mp in those six units. These three clubs should have
a peer to peer pooling.
Once the D23Club is up and running I will delete all the
extra people we added to Unit 556+ to run the first few
limited games.
Dave White
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When The new clubs get their numbers, I'll ask every
club manager to email
Rick.Beye@acbl.org with
their club number and permission.
This note is also my explanation to ACBL to get them to
bend a few rules.