I really don't think that it is legitimate to compare British and US ultimate when it comes to geo-status. The UPA don't need to concentrate on the "grass roots" of the sport quite as much, ultimate is more widely known and has a much bigger profile over in the States.
Everyone agrees that geo-teams are now the best way to improve the level of British ultimate, as was starting the Tour back in the late nineties. As such I don't think that it is enough to place to "geo" responsibilty on individual teams and it should be something that is a direct and specific policy adopted by our National Association, perhaps by incorporating suggestions like the one i mention below.
I personally would like to see more of a financial benefit for geo teams when it comes to tournament fees - I presume this is already in place to some degree. If you want to travel further afield than play with your own local team then that's up to you, but your team maybe penalised.
On a slightly different note - I am receiving a lot of posting twice, especially when people are replying to each other. When i pressed reply to all now, Hotmail put Alex's address in and the britdisc one in twice. Can people have a quick look to make sure they are not posting twice - very anal of me.
wigsy
>From: Alex Bowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: [BD] geo-ness of teams
>Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 11:49:25 +0100
>
>I've seen a couple of postings about rulings on whether a team is geo or
>not, giving London teams less of an area from which to recruit, etc.
>Imposing fixed 'you must live x miles from your team' rules onto teams in
>Britain seems over-controlling and restrictive in a similar way to the
>current Tour Roster situation.
>75% of Clapham players live in south London (SW* postcodes). 2 live in
>Cambridge, and 1 in Eastbourne. 100% of our players train with us at least
>once a week, and up to 3 times. If you don't train with us, you don't make
>the team - that's our self-imposed definition of our status of being geo.
>We're not interested in any 80-mile radius around London or whatever it is
>right now.
>
>It's the same with the top teams in North America. Jon Gewirtz lives in
>Seattle yet flies to Vancouver for practices so he can make Furious George.
>4 Condors players live in San Francisco but make the long drive to Santa
>Barbara frequently enough for them to make the team. I don't think there
>are geo restrictions on who can play for which team depending on where they
>live in the USA.
>
>It's up to the clubs to impose their own geo status by turning away players
>who live too far away to train with them, surely that's the point here.
>
>Alex
>CU26
>
>
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