Having teams from other countries turn up and play makes it more interesting. Certainly more interesting than yet again matching up against those chumps from down the road/the other side of the city/who we ALWAYS end up playing against. Not so long ago, a team from Italy won the Brit Open - I don't seem to remember anyone complaining about that, rather they were happy to play against different people and different styles of play. (admittedly, that event did not count towards promotion/relegation)
The Brit Open this year was in essence 'Tour 2' - it's just that Nolan et al have a significantly better idea about how to build a brand than anyone else running tournaments in the UK. Tour 1 had a women's team from France, and an Open team from Ireland most people seemed to like that. In order to enact true revenge, I suggest the Lucky Huckers enter Talammpaya (http://www.wizards.ch/talampaya/talampaya.html ) next year and show those devious Swiss what Hucker ultimate is all about. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:02:47 +0100 From: "Dan Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [BD] RE: Tour 2 To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Can we not have a really really talented bunch of Ultimate Wizards from Switzerland in our group next time as well please? I'm talking about the B tour. Having worked really hard to prepare for this tour, the Lucky Huckers got a bit stitched up (again) by finding themselves in a group with Seamus Murphy (8th seeds) and Wizards (23rd seed). A veritable group of death. Wizards were clearly a bit useful and it soon transpired that ourselves and Murphy would have to battle it out for 2nd spot and the chance for a crossover into the top 8. Murphy themselves mentioned after our game that it seemed a bit unfair that one team would end up missing out because a team clearly not ranked correctly attended as a guest team. They were just slotted in at 23rd when they were an experienced and capable outfit and so the seedings were laughable. It meant one team would always get shafted. Not particularly through a team improving lots since the last tout but just from obvious bad planning. I imagine this is a difficult problem to overcome if a team only enters one tour a year etc but did Wizards attend because this tour was coupled with Brit Open? I'm new to all this so I don't understand how it works but why invite international teams to a tour event that (I thought) was designed to rank GB (and Ireland) teams before nationals. Correct me if I'm wrong. I don't really know. Why not then invite international teams to a separate event to play the best of British (and Irish!) after? Why invite them in the middle? Just seems stupid to me. Wizards were really cool to play against and it's great to get international teams involved but is this the right place to do it? You stitch up any team that gets them in their group. Our weekend was over by Saturday evening really. Ok, so we're only B tour, who cares etc etc but we still went with aims of working our way towards A tour. Yeah we enjoyed the party and our games on Sunday, they were great, but when you set yourselves a goal and it gets taken away from you in this way it kind of takes the motivation out of everyone. So we just got absolutely bulldozered at the party and wondered who picked techno/gabba as party music. ;) Apart from that it was cool. Special mention to Scnell Ja (sp?) who stuck it to us hard Sunday morning. Fair play. See you all at Cardiff. Berry78. Lucky Huckers. (My views only but the rest of the team can't read so they will never know if I said something wrong anyway.) The contents of this message and any attachments to it are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received this message in error you should delete it from your system immediately and advise the sender. dunnhumby may monitor and record all emails. The views expressed in this email are those of the sender and not dunnhumby. __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
