Hello BD, For anyone that's eager to get a fuller understanding of the Ladder League and how it'll affect your club, read below and visit the National & Regional websites of last season's University Ladder League at http://www.seultimate.org/ull/ .
The league is designed to be particularly flexible so it will be able to support a variety of the individual needs of clubs, divisions, and regions. For example, EMO went around the country to play a bunch of friendlies in preparation for the Open Tour this year (http://www.emo-ultimate.org.uk) against Fire, Bristol, Leeds and Chevy - all of these games could in future be entered into the Ladder League system, not only for prosperity, but to be reflected in the National league table, and spur similarly placed teams on to arranging their own friendlies, and playing more Ultimate. The last few years have seen Women's "All-Star" games increasing in popularity, with around six teams attending each event - very similar to the University Ladder League events last year - and this years league table could essentially provide an up-to-date record & ranking of all the participating women's teams. Paul's recent email about Taunton Ultimate and their upcoming friendly 'fixtures' - submit the results to the Ladder League and Taunton will suddenly have something solid to show for themselves, and motivation to play more. This year in the South-East, new team Roehampton spotted the league and ended up playing 23 games in as many weeks, losing 18 of them but finishing 5th, a credit to the activity they showed throughout the season and their thirst for Ultimate. We've all heard about Liam's situation with the juniors - by using the Ladder League system, it could be a simple process of adding the highschool teams to the Junior Division via the website, playing the games, and then submitting the results online - bingo, an up and running Junior league, with a website and a huge potential for expansion, as new teams from anywhere in the country can see what's going on, add themselves to the website, and get playing Regional Junior Ultimate. It's all terribly exciting. I'll be wandering around with a Mohawk this weekend most likely, catch me if you've some thoughts, my ears are open. Felix BU#37 http://www.seultimate.org/ull/ __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
