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Factors for Tournament Attendance 3
Posted By: David Rockwell In Response To: Factors for Tournament Attendance 3 (Phil Simborg)
Date: Tuesday, 6 October 2009, at 1:30 p.m.
The Illinois State Championships are this weekend as you know. If you would create a survey with a small number of questions (I recommend 3 questions) I believe that Linda would support you in collecting the player's preferences. Organizers are likely to give Backgammon consumers what they want.
I have always had some concern that bringing children into a room where people are playing for quarters will eventually cause problems of one sort or another. Most parents would not enjoy visualizing their children joining the chou as they progress in the game. Mine would have been horrified. We need an intangible wall between the children and the gambling. This doesn't mean I am against the idea of promoting the game and ABT events for families and children. I am not. Bill Davis has had some success with the idea without any problems to my knowledge. I think we should proceed with caution.
The best way to reach children is to bring the game into the schools. Chess has had great success with this. Most of the tournaments I have attended in the past two years have been more than half scholastic players. There was one individual, a teacher, who brought Othello into his school for a couple of years with huge success. He was running Othello tournaments with over fifty students while he was in the job. I believe that Go has an effective program too, although I'm sufficiently out of touch with the AGA that I can't say much about it. I also know that Go has had an annual exhibit at a large Chicago anime convention trying to reach both students and young adults. The angle that Backgammon could use with students and schools is that it teaches practical mathematics. The obsticle is that it requires a lot of dedication to make a program like this happen.
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