Question for NEFA BOD

[Mike Zorovich]

What were the membership numbers by state for the 2017 season?

[Bill Bertera]

NEFA Membership report
• 361 current members in 2017 - significantly down from previous years
• 2016 = 428, 2015 = 473, 2014 = 442, 2013 = 458

• 308 will expire at the end of 2017
• 190 did not renew from 2016, 183 did not renew from 2015

• Distribution of 361 current members
• MA = 224, CT = 38, NH = 29, NY = 29, VT = 16, RI = 12, NJ = 6, ME = 3, Other = 4 (GA, IL, MD, TX)

• Gold membership = 172
• 3 new in 2017, 9 new in 2016, 11 new in 2015

[Mike Zorovich]

Thank you for the information. I appreciate it.

[Mike Zorovich]

One more question, how many nefa sanctioned events per state?

[Jeff Wiechowski]

One more question, how many nefa sanctioned events per state?

Just a quick glance thru last years calendar.....

27 in MA, including a few Womens events and a Juniors event
9 in NY plus Mighty Gaw is NEFA in NJ, my region also. I'm adding one more this year.
6 in VT
4 in NH
3 in ME
2 in RI

2017 - http://www.nefa.com/Events/default.asp?year=2017

[Josh Connell]

One more question, how many nefa sanctioned events per state?

Just a quick glance thru last years calendar.....

27 in MA, including a few Womens events and a Juniors event
9 in NY plus Mighty Gaw is NEFA in NJ, my region also. I'm adding one more this year.
6 in VT
4 in NH
3 in ME
2 in RI

2017 - http://www.nefa.com/Events/default.asp?year=2017

There was only one NEFA event in Maine in 2017. Two were listed, one failed to actually sanction.

[Bill Bertera]

CT had 2: WT and Eckers.

[Bill Bertera]

Danny is usually able to provide an official summary.

[Bill Bertera]

in reading between the lines, NEFA accepts your application for CT-state rep. thanks for your service!

[Jeff Wiechowski]

in reading between the lines, NEFA accepts your application for CT-state rep. thanks for your service!

Back in the day, he was........ gonna take some drastic changes for him to return.

[Bill Bertera]

like his state hosting finals????

[Jeff Wiechowski]

like his state hosting finals????

He was thinking about eliminating finals. Having only one points event per state, top 4 finishes count toward the season. The rest of the events are basically fundraisers for the grant program and season payouts.

There’s more to it than that but it would basically be a complete overhaul of how NEFA operates.

Apologies to Zoro for any inaccuracies in my description of his ideas.

[Titan_Bariloni]

NEFA Membership report
• 361 current members in 2017 - significantly down from previous years
• 2016 = 428, 2015 = 473, 2014 = 442, 2013 = 458

• 308 will expire at the end of 2017
• 190 did not renew from 2016, 183 did not renew from 2015

• Distribution of 361 current members
• MA = 224, CT = 38, NH = 29, NY = 29, VT = 16, RI = 12, NJ = 6, ME = 3, Other = 4 (GA, IL, MD, TX)

• Gold membership = 172
• 3 new in 2017, 9 new in 2016, 11 new in 2015

the most important thing nefa could do moving forward is not about a finals or any competitive based format
it should be to address this alarming drop off of numbers that seems to be increasing rapidly

so its the end of 2017 already that means only 53 current non gold nefa members?
I understand many renew at first event but wowzers

[Titan_Bariloni]

can we all agree there is a serious disconnect from reality...or is the same ole the forums caused this gimmick gonna be inserted
that is a dead horse and maybe it's time to actually rebuild this org and get it back on track to be a dominate DG force in NE again

if not then why even bother seems so many other things could use peoples energy then running an org into zero memberships

carry on with yo uglyfacebook discussions

[Josh Connell]

NEFA membership is dropping off in the, shall we say, outlying areas because those areas no longer really need it. As more courses pop up and more players find the game, everything is naturally going to be more and more fragmented.

I think the distribution of NEFA Points is pretty clear evidence of that. Look at the numbers Jeff posted above for 2017, then consider the numbers from 2006 (handy because someone recently posted a picture of the Finals stamped disc that lists all the events that year).

22 TOTAL events
MA - 6
ME - 6
CT - 3
NY - 3
VT - 2
NH - 2

As a percentage of the total, there is a lot more representation by certain states then than there is now. I think the biggest reason for that is there is no longer a need to attract players from one region to another to support a tournament. Tournaments are filling on their own just with local players. There is no longer any value in being NEFA-affiliated for an ever larger percentage of the tournaments in the New England region.

NEFA is shrinking in relevance, both geographically and in overall need. I'm not so sure that's a bad thing. It's a sign of and a result of outstanding growth in the game. NEFA can still have a purpose going forward, and I don't think it will die off to nothing, but I don't think it will ever see significant membership growth either, no matter what its purpose.

[Titan_Bariloni]

As a percentage of the total, there is a lot more representation by certain states then than there is now. I think the biggest reason for that is there is no longer a need to attract players from one region to another to support a tournament. Tournaments are filling on their own just with local players. There is no longer any value in being NEFA-affiliated for an ever larger percentage of the tournaments in the New England region.

NEFA is shrinking in relevance, both geographically and in overall need. I'm not so sure that's a bad thing. It's a sign of and a result of outstanding growth in the game. NEFA can still have a purpose going forward, and I don't think it will die off to nothing, but I don't think it will ever see significant membership growth either, no matter what its purpose.

good points, that leads me back to why does nefa just need to be about a "series of events"

at the very least maybe transition to youth, age protected, dubz, some year end invite from all the states

currently I see nefa offering the same thang as everywhere else, maybe try to offer something different and see what happens.

outstanding growth in the game should not translate to lowest nefa numbers ever, nor ever being able to regain and maintain numbers, to me that just means the "disc" was missed

how to get that disc into the chains? hmmm I can think of about 50 ideas instantly and none involve a point series as we know it