> 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.
This would also encourage clubs to be more organised in their (financial and other) planning - which ties in with some of the general development plans that the UKUA have. > Nationals: > Revitalise nationals by stopping the "its Tour 4" feeling. Just another Ultimate tournament? So the knowledge that one chumped result can put you badly off target (pool play allows the possibility of chumping one game!) doesn't add anything for you? > You could make nationals a 16 team knockout tournament I suspect that a smaller field than 32 should be considered, but 16 excludes any A-Tour / B-Tour interaction? > with qualifiers being the top teams from each region (based on Ladder League). So, move completely away from Tour being qualification for Nationals (and Nationals seeding Tour?)... I'm (personally) not sure that Regionalisation is yet strong enough to give a fair representation at Nationals. > 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. I'd be interested to know how many teams would be interested in such an idea... a requirement to go out and regularly play other teams in your Region, so that you can qualify for Nationals. > Other tournaments: No doubt about it, we need more. Potential TDs should also maybe consider what sort of teams/players they wish to attract and tailor their event to match - not wishing to sound like an essay question, but consider the attendees at BritOpen, Glastonbury, Copa and Durham Hat events in the last few years. There's also no reason that these non-Tour events should be run on the same weekends as Tour events - teams will then make a decision as to whether to attend the Tour event, or the non-Tour event, dependent on what they consider each has to offer. > Looking forward to seeing how things develop. It'd be nice if a few more people had some well thought out ideas, don't you think? If the ideas are popular enough, someone will make them happen! Wayne --- Wayne Retter wayne[dot]wrecker[at]ntlworld[dot]com -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.12.2/442 - Release Date: 08/09/2006 __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
