Jamie, I have no idea if 'J' knows what he is talking about but I would have thought it was a reasonable assumption to make...so I did a quick google and came back with the following link:
http://upaspc.blogspot.com/2007/04/assessment-finding-canada-and-beyond. html This cites a 2006 WFDF census of national association membership and seems to state that from 2003 - 2006 membership in the UK grew by 159% (by far the largest growth of any country listed). So it seems membership has more than doubled in the time frame quoted by 'J'. (Unless I misunderstand what they mean by membership of the national association.) Cheers, Rob ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 10:40:47 +0100 From: "Jaimie Cross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [BD] r.e. Nottingham Mixed To: "Jason Pryce-Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed J, Do you know what you are talking about? "Membership to the UKUA must have (at least) doubled in size over the past two or three years" It "MUST HAVE", is that because otherwise you lack an argument? Why must it have doubled? Have you seen the figures, were you at the conference the past two years, did you read the minutes? Why would an increase in members lead to an increase in bids to host tournaments anyway? Even without making up figures, your logic is flawed. The biggest problem with running the UKUA calender continues to be the lack of viable bids, which is a situation that the UKUA continues to address. As for MT3, the venue hasn't been changed, any information that went out ( e.g. on the website) always stated that York was a provisional venue or was "TBC". I'm sorry that teams may have lost out on train fares because they didn't notice this, but.... Most people see the whole Mixed Season as being one entity, three Tour events finishing off with Nationals, the Mixed Tour being qualification for Nationals, so it doesn't make any sense to have Nationals before the Tour has been decided. That's not to say that we don't welcome pick up teams who only want to play a few events (like IF), but we specifically cater for the majority of teams. DJ if you're not capable of playing 5 weekends of Ultimate in a row, may I suggest spending less time in the gym getting buff. Jaimie PS I know others have responded to some of these points, so feel free to ignore my interpretation. PPS This is my email address if you want to winge/provide feedback. Poorly thought out arguments will be treated with the contempt they deserve. 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://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
