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Participation in ABT events..Apr-June 08 vs this year.
Posted By: Frank_N_Stein In Response To: Participation in ABT events..Apr-June 08 vs this year. (neilkaz)
Date: Thursday, 11 June 2009, at 2:18 p.m.
IMHO, if backgammon is to succeed it must find a way to attract fresh new blood. What a new and novel idea: :p :)
On the local level, Club Directors and their club players have to make a concerted effort to attract new members to the game. An effort to talk to online backgammon venue friends to attend their local club should be made. Flyers and other forms of advertising need to go to colleges, coffee houses, etc promoting the game. The local clubs should have a freeby tour along with a money tour in the weekly/monthly events. This will allow players to learn the game without feeling like being fish food. When the new players feel comfortable they will enter the money tours and a chance to win the cash.
I do not know the expenses of the details of running a club's weekly/monthly events, but Im sure there is a way to allow for the freeby events alongside the money events.
At the ABT events; I would like to hear from the directors on this idea. Is it feasable to hold a non money prize pool event with perhaps a very small fee to enter to cover the cost of a trophey or minor essentials? This would allow the new local recruited players (fresh blood) to play an ABT and get their feet wet. Hopefully this will prompt them to continue and enter higher divisions next time. This same freebie event could be held to attract more family members to travel with the person who already plays ABT events. I heard on this forum one should look at the events as a hobby or vacation and not a ROI. Maybe the one freebie tourney could help promote the game?
Granted one could say my idea is not worthwhile due to the already created Novice Division. The Novice has a prize pool and a higher fee than I am proposing.
This freebie event could be 3 or 5pt single elimination matches causing it to go fast and not take up much time.
Regardless if my ideas are good or bad, if backgammon is to grow we must do something to make it happen.
Having put my two cents in the pot, what are the local clubs doing now to promote new blood to the game? I used the word clubs because it is all of our responsibility to grow the game we love to hate.
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