DISTRICT DIRECTOR'S REPORT - DETROIT NABC

Detroit NABC – The city was depressing, the weather was cold and windy, but the local volunteers provided great hospitality and entertainment.

STaCs were approved as previously reported (SF).  As of 3/31/08 anyone running a STaC will be charged on per table basis.  The big advantage to this approach is that a unit can run a STaC and no matter how small the table count, the most the ACBL will charge is $4.50/table (the price goes down once the tables exceed 500).  There are two proposals:

0-500           $4.50/table                 0-500           $4.50/table

501-1000     $4.25/table                 501-1000   $2250 + $4.00/table over 499

1001-2000  $4.00/table                 1001-2000 $4250 +$3.75/table over 999

2001-4000  $3.75/table                 2001-4000 $8000 + $3.50/table over 1999

4000+          $3.50/table                 4000+         $14,500 + $3.20/table

This should reduce costs to sponsors by about 8% or 5% depending on which option is decided upon  

Finances – The ACBL made $1.75 million in 2007.  Tournament and club games were up, the NABCs all exceeded estimates, complement was down.  There will be no fee increases in 2008.  A lot of the profit items are not reoccurring, the NABCs profits exceeded budget ($500M), the sale of our building, investments exceeded estimates, we plan to fill the complement vacancies.  I was elected Treasurer of the ACBL.

Masterpoints for KOs have been revised effective 3/17/08 – if a bracket in a two day KO has less than 16 teams; masterpoints will be reduced by 4% for each team that is missing.  Sectional and Regional 3 session KOs will be reduced by 1/8 per team, if there are less than 8 teams in a bracket.

That was the big news out of Detroit.  Las Vegas is the home of the Summer NABC.  They have promised it won’t be cold and windy.  July 17-27^th.

 

Craig Robinson

District 4 Director