2022 Puget Sound Regional: Photos

Send Me Some!

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It's been two full decades since I first did a Regional Daily Bulletin for the Puget Sound Regional, and over that time we have transitioned from being on-site taking photos with a digital camera to doing the Bulletins from home and hoping that people who win will realize that we all now carry cameras built into our mobile phones that are better than the digital camera I used in 2002 -- and can send the file to me instantly so I can put in into the online Bulletin in living colour. Oops, color...

Times change, and while being able to hold a paper booklet in your hand is something many of us fondly remember, almost all of us are now able to view the Bulletin online on our various devices! But the good news is that those devices allow winners photos to be a quick do-it-yourself job. Plus, the photos themselves appear on this page, and occasionally on the results pages as well, and in full, living colour!

Let's remember: Regionals have a lot of different events, and occasionally we get a photo of a pair or a team who thinks they have won an event when a late scoring change knocks them down to second overall, or even lower. Or someone thinks that their 55.7% section top in the afternoon session of Section L of a six-section open pairs, while not making the overalls, is an event win. I do try to include all of the photos I am sent, but I also check the final results to ensure that what you thought when you took the photo is actually what happened. And on busy days, this can take some time and be held over to tomorrow.

But if you have won and you cannot find a tournament volunteer or a friend to take your photo, another option is to take a photo of event winners yourself (or, if you're the winner, convince a friend to do so!) and send it directly to me:

Here's How To Send Photos:

• Above the Strike Zone: Try not to include in the frame any part of the body below where the letters would be on a baseball uniform. People want to see faces, not waistlines. If you have people of different heights, you might have to include the tall one's strike zone(s), but make faces your focus.
• Fill the Frame: Don't stand so far back that only 10%-20% of the frame is faces. Move up close and look at your screen as a guide. I will always crop out legs and shoes, and if this leaves an image that is small, the quality will suffer.
• Send the biggest version you can: It's important. ooga@shaw.ca is the address to send photo files to. Don't send the one that takes up the least bandwidth, it will look blurred on a screen if the resolution is lowered beyond a reasonable level.
• Identify!: I need to know who the people are and what they did. If they won an event, tell me which one and first names from left to right in the photo will suffice (I can get the rest from the data I am sent). I'd also like to credit the photo taker, so tell me who you are as well.
• Watch the lighting and background: At night, photos taken in the dark may not look too well and require touchup. The playing area is usually best for light. I have taken a lot of photos that seem to have trees coming out of the tops of people's heads, so avoid that if you can, although now that all photos will appear online in colour (as opposed to monochrome on paper), this is not as big an issue as it used to be. Leavenworth has some great outdoor scenes that would make great photos: if your team goes out for dinner, take a photo of the team somewhere and send it along if you win! Simple is usually best, against a wall inside the playing area, or even in a space in the middle with people milling around a distance away can sometimes work.
• Patience: There's a lot to do at scary hours during a Daily Bulletin week, especially when I have daily Director duties that require a reasonable amount of rest, and it may take a day or two before I can get around to posting photos. Or responding to those who have sent them.

Puget Sound 2022 Photos!

Four tables of Bridge4Youth on Saturday Afternoon!
	Thursday Open Pairs winners Hugh Hendrickson and James Madison
New Life Master Nick Nichols, Seattle WA Congratulations!
	Mt. Rainier Knockout Teams Bracket One winners: Eric Sieg, Issaquah, WA; Kevin Bolan, Snohomish, WA; Ray Miller, Seattle, WA; Stanford Christie, Kirkland, WA
Wednesday Gold Rush Winners Stanley and Carla Delducco, Olympia, WA
	And the winners were ... Nathan and Arthur Gong, Sammamish, WA (blurry photo no doubt due to excitement!)
Wednesday Open Pairs halftime leaders: Gregory Trautman, Olympia, WA; Jessie Brunswig, Fountain Hills, AZ, a half-matchpoint ahead of strat B and C leaders Arthur and Nathan Gong, Sammamish, WA — stay tuned!
	Tuesday Gold Rush Pairs winners: John McClure, Ocean Shores, WA; Henrietta Moore, Olympia, WA
Tuesday Cascade Round-Robin Teams Bracket One Winners: Kathy Gilman, Shoreline, WA; Andrea James, Auburn, WA; Dudley Brown, Grandview, WA; Herman Xiao, Sammamish, WA
	More to come: Thursday - Tom Carmichael: Lies Your Bridge Teacher Told You, Friday - David Taylor: Introduction to Losing Trick Count
Eric Seig's talk on hand evaluation Wednesday before the evening session
	Tuesday Players
Bridge Returns to Lynnwood Convention Center!
We'll start with Lynnwood photos I have grabbed from the Internet and add winners and other photos sent to me, above this line, as they appear in my inbox....
	Lynnwood Convention Centre, the site for the tournament, with nearby hotels, shopping, and restaurants galore!
Most of Lynnwood has developed since this first appeared, I think on Hwy 99, the old road connecting Seattle and Vancouver before I-5 was built.
	Alderwood Mall (this is about 0.5% of it) is a huge 166-store mall about a half-mile northeast of the playing site, near the northern I-5/I-405 interchange. Wikipedia claims that the official name is now simply Alderwood, and now includes several nearby smaller strip malls for a total of 1.5 million square feet of retail floor space! I guess Lynnwood has grown to usurp and now include the neighbourhood formerly known as Alderwood....
Lynnwood City Hall is about a quarter-mile northwest of the playing site.
	I can't tell you exactly where this is, but this type of park scenery is abundant in the area.
If you're not from the Seattle area and you've played at the Lynnwood Convention Centre tournament below, this will probably be familiar...