It seems I owe an apology. I thought we had communicated the fact that Mixed Nationals venue had moved from York to Nottingham. And certainly the entry on the calendar indicated that the intended venue was York but that it was not confirmed. Evidently we didn't do a good job of confirming the change though.
This was agreed some months back - mid March at the latest. The reason was that the planned venue fell through. However this happened in the winter and - as I say - I think we thought the change was communicated and well known. Looking back it might have been lost in the noise of the discussions about how expensive everything is. Interesting comment about UKUA membership growth. It has grown - but not as quickly as doubling in 2 years. The UKUA has increased the investment in staff (i.e. I do more hours than the last Administrator) - but until now I have been prioritising other areas than the event calendar as in general that has been working relatively well for the last couple of years. I will be making sure going forwards that I put some regular time into trawling the calendar to make sure details are correct and up to date - and over-communicating on changes to venues in particular. On the re-arranged Mixed Nationals: The intention is to run an event in June. Either: 9/10 or 16/17. There are two bids and there will be confirmation and announcement on the venue and date will be made early next week (if not sooner). If (like DJ) you have strong feelings about how this should happen can I suggest that you try to email Jaimie Cross (the lucky fellow with the no-win decision to make) before he decides. I.e. please do this now. If you don't know Jaimie's address please email your view to me and I'll fwd to Jaimie. Si Simon Hill, UKUA Administrator Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: ukua.admin Postal address: UK Ultimate Association, LONDON WC1N 3XX > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jason Pryce-Jones > Sent: 11 May 2007 09:41 > To: [email protected] > Subject: [BD] r.e. Nottingham Mixed > > I'm surprised there hasnt been more debate about this to be > honest. I understand there were serious problems with the > venue for tour2 and based on Hanna's email I dont think > anyone would claim that every possible route had not been tried. > > But why the change of venue for this tour? Presumably York > was booked for tour 3 so why now the need to change it to > Nottingham? And why do we hear this from Steve G? Steve will > undoubtably run a great tourney (as always) but I would have > thought the Mixed Tour co-ordinator or UKUA head Si Hill > would have sent out the email along with an explanation for why. > > Someone has already mentioned the fact that this change of > decision so late in the day has ended up costing one team in > particular a lot of money in train fares and that because of > this they are now faced with non-returnable tickets for York > and some players who can no longer afford to travel to the > tournament in Nottingham. > > Membership to the UKUA must have (at least) doubled in size > over the past two or three years yet we dont seem to be > utilising this increase in revenue to properly organise the > flagship events of the season i.e. the tours. As it stands, > we have potentially lost 25% of the mixed season (assuming we > can't find another venue and take the route Chef describes > below) and the change of venue has seriously impacted the > costs involved to attend. I appreciate the time people give > up to run this sport in the UK but I dont think even they > would consider this to have been an especially succesful > summer so far. > > J > > ---------------------- > I was under the impression that as MT2 was cancelled, MT3 is > now MT2; MNats is now MT3 and MNats will be run at a later > date (yet to be announced). > > I aggree this is frustrating; but as Hannah said she did > everything possible to secure an alternative venue. > > -Chef > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the > answer. Try it now. > http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ > __________________________________________________ > BritDisc mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc > Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed > __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
