all this talk about what happened at Leeds is fasicnating.
Some of the Britdisc readers weren't there, any chance of someone actually
posting the *results* of the tournament? I keep reading "leeds did well" -
what, did they come fourth, or eighth?
Andy
Chevvy
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> Subject: RE: Confessions of a Tournament Director!!!!
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> I seem to remember this happening before in the first U8
> tour, and teams were moved up then. So it seems that it
> should have happened again here there really should be no
> problem with that. The fact that leeds took 4th spot was not
> ideal but once you have
> done the schedual you do go for the easiest option.
>
> Anyway what is done is done. Leeds played well and earnt
> there place can we just leave it at that but maybe set a rule
> of thumb for the future so as to avoid this?
>
> Hannah
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> Jon Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@warwick.ac.uk on
> 07/25/2001 02:15:38 PM
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> Subject: RE: Confessions of a Tournament Director!!!!
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> Arun/Rik
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> I sympathise with your Friday morning dilemma, but surely the
> easiest thing
> to do would be leave the 4th space empty and not promote LLL
> from 9th to
> 4th. Admittedly this would have left byes in the fight for semi final
> places. But that's not your fault.
>
> I thought the structure of the tour is supposed to make it
> impossible for
> any team outside the upper group to penetrate the top half of
> that group,
> over one tour event.
>
> Also by promoting LLL from 9th to 4th they would not receive the full
> implications of getting knocked out of the top eight from the
> previous tour.
> The tour is about consistency of play not what you can pull
> out of the bag
> on the day.
>
> Jon
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Arun Sharma [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 25 July 2001 13:20
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> Subject: Confessions of a Tournament Director!!!!
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> To the Ultimate Committee.
>
> We only found out about clapham's withdrawal on Friday. The
> schedule had
> been written and we wanted to change it as little as
> possible. We tried
> getting hold of the u8c committee but failed. When we
> reseeded the teams it
> was unavoidable that one team or another would have had to
> have byes and
> have played less games.... we were just trying to limit the
> damage late on
> Friday with a busy day at work - hence the action taken.
>
> You may feel that this sounds a bit dodgy but we had to make
> a decision and
> the action taken was the easiest and quickest way. I
> apologise to the
> ultimate committee and any teams that feel hard done by but
> as any other
> tournament director will confirm, last minutes changes cause
> problems which
> often lead decisions that are sometimes not favorable.
>
> Please be assured that any decision made was for the interest
> of all teams.
> Apologies once again and I hope you all still respect Rik and I as
> tournament directors who would still want to hold a tour
> event in Leeds.
>
> Arun/Rik
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