I said I would so hear it is: This is my whole-hearted apology to Thac and Taz. I now have it on reliable information that the scheduling decisions were those of the Mixed Committee rather than that of the TDs. I'm sorry if any offence was taken, I was wrong. For the record, I really enjoyed MT1 and had more fun there than I have at a tournament for a long time (did miss access to the skittle alley on Saturday night though) and I look forward to many more Tours in Cardiff.
My concerns about the schedule do still stand though. What is the point of having a scheduling committee if you aren't going to use it? Surely one of it's fundamental purposes should be to ensure that the important events have satisfactory scheduling? I'm finished now. Oscar On 14/05/07, Oscar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm not really sure how the Indoor Nationals situation fits into an argument about Tour? I'd just like to point out that the teams that broke the rules were discovered and the penalties that were handed to them were excepted (some more graciously than others). I think that the UKUA and whoever run Indoor Regionals/Nationals in future will have learnt from the event this year and we should take more positives from the way that the other teams behaved than how the few did. The scheduling concerns have been raised and changes have been made for next year. We're a growing sport which we all love and want to play. Mistakes will be made and one of the biggest strengths of UK Ultimate is that we seem to quickly learn from these mistakes/unfortunate events and they very rarely repeat themselves. (On an aside, I'd like to mention that the majority of issues from Indoor Nationals were more than satisfactorily dealt with, with only two situations remaining and one of those in the process of being rectified. I'd like to again offer my sincere thanks on behalf of myself and FlyghtClub to the UKUA and it's members for their ongoing support in these matters). Another point that I'd like to bring up that is more on the subject everyone has been talking about occurred at MT1. A simple modification to any schedule that, I believe, can only benefit the development of the game is to put lower ranking games on pitches near/next to higher ranking games. At MT1, the bottom 6 were isolated on the furthest pitches from the pavilion for the entire weekend. It wouldn't take much to switch a few pitches round and make the lower ranked teams feel a little less like second class citizens. Also, people seemed happy with the schedule at the top end but I'm not sure how a team can lose 1 game all weekend and, in a fair schedule, finish 27th? I think there was probably a potential round of cross-overs that were, for some reason, missed out. I heard disturbing rumours that there is a UKUA scheduling committee and that these people were not consulted by the TDs for MT1. If this is not the case and, I emphasise, it is only hearsay, then I fully and whole-heartedly apologise but it still grates a little that we finished so low despite performing much better than we expected to. As ever, my views and not, necessarily, those of my team (at least on the points related to Mixed Tour). Oscar Oh - I forgot the fiasco (sorry oscar to bring this up again!) of indoor > nationals. add that to the list. Same wekeend as GB trainings - great. > Teams breaking the rules and buggering off before the end of the > tournament, > playing with ineligable players etc - what fun. If you're gonna have > strict > roster rules, then submitting rosters might be a good way to enforce > them. >
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