"I should point out that regionals/nationals for 3 divisions is 6 weekends a year, not 4.
Well presumably the open & women's divisions would be hosted at the same time/place as they are currently, so mixed regionals, mixed nats, open/womens regionals, o/w nats = 4 weekends. But if not, I don't think any invididual players would play at all 6 events anyway so it's not a problem (I guess there might be some who would, which is cool, but they can't do that now so it wouldn't be denying them something they can actually do currently). Rolls On 14/05/07, IndoorsDOC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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... > __________________________________________________ > 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
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