Here are a couple of thoughts I had over a cup of coffee this morning. It's been a great season. Some of the best run tournaments (competitive and more laid back), some of the highest level utlimate, some rumours and gossip and plenty of Britdisc action.
Tour consistency: Ask teams to pay for the entire tour up front. This would increase commitment and consistency. Although this is quite a lot of money for teams to pay, and therefore not necessarily desireable, it does fit in with the tours objectives. After all, the tour's goal is consistency and high level competition. Nationals: Revitalise nationals by stopping the "its Tour 4" feeling. You could make nationals a 16 team knockout tournament with qualifiers being the top teams from each region (based on Ladder League). That adds a potential random factor and encourages regional growth. 16 team knockout means 4 games each and plenty of time to schedule a womens and mens final, complete with bar and crowd antics. Other tournaments: By restricting the tour to a preset number of teams you should encourage other tourmaments. I'm sure Brighton will try to make their tournament a regular and your team is stupid not to try and run an equivalent tournament. Its fun and you get money. These tournaments can cater for the sort of teams that want to decide 5 days before a tournament that they can rock up and play. A premier tournament: We need a premier competiton tournament which would allow foreign teams to come and compete with us at a high level. Whack this tournament near Stansted airport and you could guarantee a great field from Europe. In fact, I might do this... Yeah thinking as you type. Looking forward to seeing how things develop. Will Ltd Release #4 > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2006 15:34:31 +0100 > From: "Wayne Retter \(aka Wrecker\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [BD] How to improve on 2006 in 2007? > To: <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" > > So, the 2006 UKUA sanctioned Mixed, Open and Womens seasons are now > officially complete. Despite a year in which there have been more players, > in greater numbers of teams, exhibiting an overall improved level of play > than ever before, it would appear that a major 'highlight' of the year on > Britdisc have been the complaints over last-minute provision of Open Tour > and Nationals schedules, and then the demands that these schedules place > upon the participants. > > As someone that has historically been involved in tournament organisation, > I > am aware that writing a schedule can be a tricky task for a tournament > organiser. Generally, given that the TD knows how many fields and how much > playing time they have available, the factor that causes most problems is > the number of teams attending, and trying to concoct a format that works > for > that number without straying too far from the guidelines. > > It seems to me that the organisers have been unable to write/publish the > schedules in a timely manner because, for each event, there have been > several teams who have been either indecisive about whether to enter, or > poorly organised when it comes to sending their money/entry. It also seems > to me that, for whatever reasons, the organisers have been willing to wait > as long as possible for those additional entries. > > > 2007 B Tour > To aid in the scheduling, I would propose that the current B division be > restricted to specific numbers of teams (multiples of 4), with prewritten > formats and schedules. e.g. If there are 23 teams entered on the closing > date (4 weeks before the event, according to the Tour Rules), one week be > allowed to find a 24th team to use a 24 team schedule, or the tournament > is > restricted to a 20 team format/schedule. > > It seems to me that it ought to be possible to write these schedules (it > they haven't already been written and stored somewhere?), for various > numbers of pitches, over the winter, so that they are instantly available > to > chose/publish when the tournament entry closing date ? > > > 2007 Open Nationals > It seems to me that, since the format of Nationals was moved to a 32 team > knockout a few years back, we've possibly never had 32 teams attend > Nationals!?! This obviously leads to the inevitable (but probably not > unwelcome) byes in the schedule for the top teams on Saturday mornings, > but > more unfortunately, leads to byes later in the schedule, when the games > would have perhaps been more meaningful. > I would suggest that the format of Nationals be reconsidered - I heard an > interesting proposal over the weekend, involving 2 divisions of 16 in > 'open' > (rather than 'peer') pools, over 3 days, with crossovers between the > divisions, but I forget exactly... > > --- > Wayne Retter > wayne[dot]wrecker[at]ntlworld[dot]com > > __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
