I'm not sure it proves the point that teams voted '4' because they were friendly, but I would agree it suggests that the voting of some teams may not have been totally representative.
Would they have voted differently if they were offered the BULA system? I believe so. Would those votes have been more representative of the spirit on show during those games? Again, I think so. But I think there are many reasons why they would vote 4 if given very little instruction (I purposely gave little advice to see what would happen) It may also be of note that the method of voting for 1st, 2nd, 3rd doesn't necessarily help to improve the spirit on show in games it just ranks teams against other teams (which definitely has it's benefits) but there may well be a tendency for teams lower down the rankings to assume that they were everyone's "4th most spirited team". If, however, a team sees they get 4 out of 16 from a weekend, they know they may possibly need to peruse the spirit rules again to improve for next time. If all the teams did that, we'll be having some hippy love-in by 2010 Tour though... nightmare! pugh 2008/7/15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > If I may, and yes I will continue to beat this drum, the bula system > requires no more than a minutes thought from the team post game, it provides > the most objective and comprehensive system for assigning a spirit score, > and to be honest is the best attempt I've seen to date to address the > flagging concept of spirit within the game, hell who hasn't been at a > tournament where teams are marked for spirit based on how friendly the team > was.. Pugh proves the point with his own experience of 95% of teams scoring > 4... > > __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
