Si,
>> Why don't we make people have to choose, at least then
>> the teams who represent Britain at Worlds are established Mixed teams
rather
>> than ones cobbled together in the season before.
GB Mixed Teams in Recent Tournaments:
WUCC 99 = Blue Arse Flies, Mild Mannered Janitors (the "original" mixed
team, Gael Force
WFDF 00 = GB ("Largely" made up of Chevron and Blue Arse Flies players)
EUCC 01 = Blue Arse Flies, Strange Blue
WUCC 02 = Blue Arse Flies, Chevron
... think I'm spotting a trend here
All these teams have proved their commitment to Mixed ultimate and it's
development over the last few seasons and the squad BAF take to Hawaii
will be the strongest BAF Mixed squad yet assembled for a major
tournament... Hardly "cobbled" together at the last minute??? The Open Tour
provides a perfect training ground for Mixed teams in the build-up to major
tournaments and gives us the opportunity to play against quality opposition
week in, week out whether at an Open or Mixed event. To marginalise the
Mixed Tour by making it a "sideshow" to the Open Tour would only serve to
weaken the Mixed teams we send to major tournaments rather than improve
them.
BAF are committed to providing the opportunity to compete in all
(non-junior) variations of the sport (Open, Mixed and Womens) as proved by
sending two teams to the vast majority of both the Open & Mixed Tours last
season, a large number of indoor tournaments and all of the major womens
tournaments. To force players to have to make a decision between Open v
Mixed v Womens is only taking the sport backwards...
Balti
BAF 34
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