2013 - January 13, Mahjong Tournament + Arts and Crafts
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Event Captains
Arts and Crafts: Clare Zhang, Tian Mi; Mahjong Tournament: Steven Jens Jorgensen, Jackie Wu
Location and Time
Saturday, January 12th, 2013 in McCormick Dining from 7-10:30 pm
Event Description
Mahjong Tournament and Arts and Crafts! 7pm teaching session, 8-10pm tournament. Set up tables for crafts on one side of McCormick Dining. People can walk in at any time and begin a craft.
Arts and Crafts"
- Calligraphy (Eva Yeung)
- Hongbao Paper Lanterns (tutorial)
- Tissue Paper Flowers (tutorial)
- Origami
- Riceball Plushies (tutorial) <-- arts and crafts should basically become plushie making night. it's extremely popular.
Attendance
- 2013: 50 people in attendance (including exec), about 30 of them were playing mahjong (including exec), a good number of people showed up for crafts too (mostly riceball plushies)
Stores
Mahjong Tournament: We bought mahjong set from Amazon, Starbucks gift card
Arts and Crafts: Most art supplies were found in ATS storage. Bought other supplies at Michael's (near Costco)
- Calligraphy: used ink/brushes from lantern making
- Hongbao Paper Lanterns: found a big bag of hongbao in the student center locker. They are rectangular, though, and the tutorial called for square ones. Cut them in half and they are roughly square. Not used up at all. Also gathered gluesticks and ribbon from locker.
- Tissue Paper flowers: used tissue paper from lantern making, scissors from storage/exec lending, and bought thread from Michael's. Didn't buy the sticks - we just snapped twigs off of the bushes in front of McCormick and in the little garden in front of Baker. (Don't look shady while doing this!)
- Origami: big stack of paper and star strips found in student center locker.
- Riceball plushies: bought one pack of white and one pack of black felt from Michael's. Also bought white and black thread (used same thread for tissue paper flowers), and needles.
Notes
Spending for this year: $15 Starbucks gift card, $22 Mahjong set from Amazon
Mahjong Tournament:
We held separate tournaments, one for newbies, one for advanced players. Took the two top scoring from each table to play semis, and again for finals. We had them at first play 2 rounds to determine the top scorer, but ran out of time and made it only 1 round.
Brought 2 poker sets originally to use for scoring, but not necessary since it is basic numbers, and not that hard to keep track of. People started playing blackjack instead, which works too.
There were a lot of people who finished their matches but had to wait for other tables to finish up/settle ties, so make sure that they don't have to wait too long (settle ties with rock paper scissors?)
Arts and Crafts:
- Got together the night before to make examples of all of our crafts and printed out the instructions. Took many hours to do so. During setup the day of the event, we had a bunch of people help us cut patterns for the Riceball plushies out of the felt.
- Riceball plushies were extremely popular. We thought that not many people would want to make one (takes ~1.5 hours) so we didn't buy that much felt or needles. We ran out of needles almost immediately, and the felt ran out pretty quickly too. Lesson learned: have cute stuff, and people will come.. Don't run out of needles! People had to wait for others to FINISH their riceballs before being able to start.
- Tissue Paper Flowers were also pretty popular. Had people take materials home so they could keep on making them after the event.
- Origami and Hongbao Lanterns literally not even touched.
- Calligraphy relatively popular - Eva made nametags for people.
Planning (taken from 2011) : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XmA3TIP45_sYtsx5EPu6mFPA8h5YWOvOmnRkwMzW6RM/edit?hl=en&authkey=CNLkzdUF
Scoring (taken from 2011) : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n0I5nIQbg34zFuQv_VOeSGjeanLbFErWaawcZFXz5dU/edit
Teaching Sheet: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_YdkL6uoU7Yb3hNcndkZ1IyOHM/edit
