Most of that can probably be avoided by TD's contacting each other and discussing whether they're a) running events likely to compete with each other, and b) if so, whether one tournament's particularly easy to move.
Let's not forget that someone TDing a tournament is highly likely to want to play in someone else's as well, so it's in everyone's best interests to work an amicable solution rather than forcing unnecessary competition or arbitrarily decreeing who gives way. These are the opinions of my team, as I'm the most intelligent one on it. Pablo -- 3 -- Flaming Galahs On 9/6/07, Philip Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Last year I had only one option on my sports hall date for IRON five (due > to return this year when I find a sports hall). The sports hall was only > available for that date and when I booked it there was another but student > nationals & Winter league on the date (I think). But my point is that we > interact with the outside world too and no matter how much information you > have you some times just can't avoid clashes. > > Any way thanks for reading this is really a shamless plug to say I'm > working on the IRON five tournament for this year but it will either be on a > differnt date or in a differnt city due to sports hall booking problems. > > > Thanks for reading > > Scraggy > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: IndoorsDOC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, 6 September, 2007 10:53:20 AM > Subject: Re: [BD] Calender Clashing > > > Liam Kelly wrote: > > I think its about time we have clashing dates for tournaments, > leagues > > and events. Competition may even drive tournament prices down and > > increase the quality of tournaments. As ultimate expands its > > inevitable this is going to happen more and more. > > > I agree, but there are certain things to take into account. The onus is > on whoever creates the competing event not to step on the toes of the > existing event. It doesn't matter whether the 2nd event is bigger and > better or not - whoever gets there first (within reason) gets the > weekend. This is because whoever set up the first event has most > probably booked pitches and invested some time and money already. > > For example, imagine that the UKU slapped Tour 3, at late notice, on top > of an already-planned Copa tournament. Would that be fair? Obviously > they'd be competing for players, but not in a fair way - Tour is an > ongoing competition, and there is an incentive to attend all events, so > the choice for some people might be a) attend one Copa weekend, or b) > attend three tours and Nationals. The same thing can happen with WLs - > one of them was planning this year to force teams to attend all 5 events > or none, which is nothing like fair competition if they clash with > existing events. > > On certain weekends 'clashes' are to be expected. The WL weekends will > obviously have more than one tournament going on in different parts of > the country. Few people can complain if Open Nats clashes with Women's > Nats. The beginner tournaments all seem to clash, but again they're > fairly local these days. > > But if you're planning to clash a tournament, ask yourself: will I be > stealing players/teams from an existing tournament? If you will, then > you're behaving rather poorly. > > Obviously clashes will become more common as more and more people play > the game - e.g. it's hard to imagine all those local winter leagues 15 > years ago; had there been one it would most likely have been a national > event. In a few years we might get a regionalised tour. There might be > lots of tournaments every weekend all over the country, though even then > the UKU will no doubt wish to reserve certain weekends for national > competitions. > > And for now, if there aren't enough paying customers to go round yet, > then you'd better get your dates in early. > > B > > > __________________________________________________ > BritDisc mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc > Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed > > > ___________________________________________________________ > Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good > http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html > > __________________________________________________ > 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
