Just to clarify, to save anyone else the bother...
Tour 0 was decided on at the conference, not by the UKU. You had every
chance to go to that conference, as did everybody else.
Foreign teams have been eligible since the tour rules were written years
ago. Too late to complain now if a team finally decides to use them.
Which leaves only the Mixed Tour collapse. Which, as one isolated
incident, and one that people worked hard to fix, looks rather less like
evidence of deep-rooted UKU incompetence.
Finally, if you believe that the tour should be scrapped in favour of a
regionals/nationals setup, try writing a proper discussion of why you
think that. It might even be a valid point, but it's lost in a rant.
Although I should point out that regionals/nationals for 3 divisions is
6 weekends a year, not 4.
Benji
shocker dvd wrote:
Yo!
Some of my opinions - not my club's.
Am I the only person who's not pleased with UKU's decisions on stuff this
year? For a start we've been forced into playing an "open tour" months
before the actual tour just cos some people moaned about a terribly
scheduled B tour 1 last year. Oh - or was it to allow more student
teams?
My arse - how many more students teams went? The students have loads of
competitions - they're not in desperate need of more. ffs, all this
bollocks about "teams changing" and "let us play in the A tour - we
can't be
bothered to qualify" is there to be ignored.
We've actually missed an event this year. When was the last time that
happened??? Remember Toaster anyone - my god that was shite, but at
least
we still got to play ultimate. I'm fairly sure that there isn't a single
person who wouldn't put up with cold showers for the chance to play a
tourny
- prolly about half the tournaments I've ever played have had freezing
showers, and I'd moan - but I'd at least be playing a tournament.
Foreign teams on tour. hmmm. There's 4 teams who want this to happen.
They're the top 4 teams. Hang on - aren't there 16 teams in the A tour?
All who have worked hard to "qualify"? Who cares - lets just let the
top
4 teams get their own way, and push a team into the B tour - I don't
know
any of their players anyways, so they ain't gonna bother me. Paddy
murphy
are pretty damn amazing, putting in huge amounts of effort to make
sure they
can play in our tours - if only they knew the right preson to charm, they
could just come and go when they pleased.
I hate getting annoyed - especially cos I know a few of the UKU
people, and
they are nice / committed / hard working etc. But does that mean they're
getting it right? Not in my brain. You could say "get involved tom -
help
out with your ideas/opinions" - but right now I'm pretty sure that common
sense would come up with the right answers - not more people mixing it
up.
Solution? Yup, there is one. Get it right.
There's more. Right now we pay quite a lot of money (whatever - tell me
what a good deal we'regetting why don't ya?) for stuff that used to be
free,
and just as well organised (toaster still happened even if it was total
arsewipe). Having the UKU try to sort out 8 weekends of my year seems
too
much. Why not give them 4 (regionals/natties open/coed/womens). That
would
leave loads more time for smaller team/individual run tournament that we
could choose to go to. Right now I feel failry bad that we "had" to
go to
tour 0. Get rid of it, and let me choose what I wanna do, by giving
me more
free weekends for fun/tune up tournies.
Dammit - I've sounded harsh on the UKU, and am happy to get loads of
replies
sticking up for them to make me feel better again. Sorry to those on the
UKU I know and respect - I still do, I'm just a little annoyed. Jaimie -
give me some shit back please, I love your work.
Tom
ps - there's more to come...
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