Bridge in the 21st Century!
Participant Evaluation Summary
At the conclusion of the “Bridge in the 21st Century” event held on April 25th, 2009, an evaluation sheet was passed out to the participants and their feedback requested. A total of 64 evaluation forms were completed and returned. The following summarizes the responses:
1. How did you hear about today’s event?
- Wife
- From a friend – (9)
- From Laura Lee (3)
- Bridge studio e-mail
- Martha Mc Kittrick (3)
- From Jim Woodward (2)
- Flyer (4)
- From David Miller (2)
- Sue Adamson at Bear Creek (2)
- From Sue Adamson (2)
- St Martins bridge class – Lynn Graham (2)
- Bridge group
- E-mail and friend sent form
- Studio
- Lou Fowler (2)
- E-mail from a friend
- Westside Bridge Academy (2)
- Elton Lipnick (2)
- A flyer passed out at Houston Grand in Cinco Ranch
- St. Peters UMC – Martha Mc Kittrick
- Word of mouth (2)
- Direct mail (2)
- Elaine Altschuler
- From our bridge teacher
- Linda Cornell – friend
- Mary Jo Torczon
- Internet/website (2)
- Sue Adamson – Westside Tennis Club
2. How do you rate the overall experience? (5 – Terrific; 1 – A waste of time)
Response |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number responding |
0 |
1 |
3 |
20 |
37 |
3. Please rate the classes (5 – Terrific; 1 – A waste of time)
Response |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number responding |
0 |
0 |
4 |
14 |
43 |
4. Would you recommend this to a friend?
Response |
Number responding |
|---|---|
Yes |
64 |
No |
0 |
5. Suggestions for improvement
- Speed up check in
- 1 hour class
- Better microphone or different venue
- Better PA systems (13)
- Less questions from participants & more time on hand out
- Ask participants to hold questions until the end of each portion of instruction (3)
- Acoustics were bad – even microphone didn’t help
- Speak slower and louder. (2)
- Not to go into details. It gets confusing.
- Temperature too cold at first.
- None – (2)
- Play more hands (2)
- Decaf coffee
- Raise sun blinds
- More bridge and more criticism of bridge play
- Section C E/W had terrible cards. Need to have some biddable hands.
- Check collection was confusing but happy ending.
6. About how far do you live from this location?
0-5 miles |
5-10 miles |
10-20 miles |
20-40 miles |
> 40 miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
20 |
18 |
9 |
11 |
3 |
7. If you were to play duplicate, would it be most convenient for you to play
| Weekday mornings | Weekday afternoons | Weekday evenings | Weekends |
|---|---|---|---|
37 |
2 |
17 |
18 |
8. Any other comments?
- Food was great! Volunteers great!
- Keep it up.
- Good to have tried it. It was my first duplicate in 0 years. I really enjoyed it. Thank you all for organizing the tournament.
- Volunteers at the table were excellent!
- Great day! Loved the support team, speaker.
- Gary King was great! Thank you.
- Enjoyed the play a lot.
- Great event!
- Great fun!
- Loved the advisors. Betsy Du Bose. We learned some more from her!
- Staff excellent.
- Great staff! Great food! Great facility!
- It was great!
- Great time.
- Good – lecture and questions were great!
- Thoroughly enjoyed playing duplicate for first time in 15 years.
- Very pleasant experience.
- Betsy Dubose sat at our table and was most helpful – deserves a raise!!!
- Thanks for doing this. It is well worth the cost. Good food, nice people.
- Great day! Thanks. Thanks for adjusting the thermostat!
- Overall it was a nice experience. Lunch was delicious and volunteers were very, very helpful.
- Wanted to learn information on last few pages. Pressed for time due to audience questions.
- Nice lunch too.
- Do more often.
- The lessons were very good, but very basic The volunteers were great.
- Today in sectin C East-West never got any points! Suggestion: perhaps preview hands in advance.
- Thanks.
- Fun day.
- Lunch was great!
- Thanks.
- Well done.