Britdisc, Pugh, Can I congratulate Tooting on there public effort to address one of their poorer spirit scores. I trust that the team in enquiring from a genuine desire to improve that area of their game and not to defend themselves.
The publication of spirit scores after tournaments makes fascinating reading and gives a much better feel for the tournament than simply publishing the spirit winners. The BULA scoring system seems to be a fair tool to gauge spirit and forces teams to do a little thinking before voting for the team with the funniest call. I'm interested that the spread of spirit score at Tour 0 (south) was from 11.8 - 7.6 and Tour 0 (north) 11.9 - 8.0 Yet University nationals generated a much bigger spread from 13.4 - 4.3. Why is this? Does it spread even further at junior level? The University Nationals result has be one of the most fascinating as both the top spirited team and bottom spirited team competed for the final. It's a relief that the top spirited team won, what sort of message would it send if they lost? I imagine the Warwick Bears were over the moon to have, not only dominated the tournament, but done so in a way that was, in the opinion of the teams they played against, exemplary in terms of sportsmanship and conduct. I would be great to hear from someone in the team about whether spirit was something that came naturally or whether they had to work at it. I don't really know what to make of a spirit average of 4.3. I've never played against Sublime, I don't know why they were consistently regarded as playing in such a poor manner. I don't know whether they think such a low spirit score is an issue, or anything to worry about. Perhaps someone from Portsmouth could shed some light. Recently Jamie Cross (UKUA Chair) encouraged all players to "think carefully about upholding Spirit, even in trying circumstances", it certainly looks like Tooting are doing just that, not just on the pitch but in the Ultimate community too. Cheers all Tom PS Paganello Photos (including a load from the party) are now up on http://tom-styles.co.uk PPS These are my views not necessarily those of my team or Blockstack.tv 2009/4/30 <[email protected]>: >Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:42:36 +0100 From: <[email protected]> Subject: [BD] Tour 0 spirit score To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <9683c6d1776a8345a53906db6b59ff8a03825...@evs-ec1-node2.surrey.ac.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Bonjour BritDisc, Just a quick one, I play for Tooting Tigers and I've just seen our spirit scores from the weekend on here. I'm emailing as we're a relatively new outfit and we pride (big cat pun) ourselves on playing hard, but also playing fair. We happened to get a '4' in one of our games and I was wondering whether the team that assigned us that score would be willing to privately disclose why we scored so poorly in that particular game. We happened to get a 14 in another game so hopefully that will convince you that we're not a complete bunch of b***ards from 9:30am on a Saturday to 6:00pm on a Sunday. Although it may take quite a lot of convincing... My email address is [email protected] - please don't feel that you need to discuss the score on here. I'm sure people have more important spam emails to be deleting regarding a big money deposit from the deposed King of Nigeria or a baldness cure that really, really works. I'm quite happy to take any feedback on the chin especially if it's along the line of "I forgot to put the '1' on the front of '14'" I jest. If you can only narrow it down to which categories we scored "0" for on the spirit sheet then that would be helpful. Hopefully, I can take the info back to the team and we can work on our business and maybe get a rematch at Tour 1 and prove that our spirit in the game last weekend was a blip. I won't take anything you say personally. All the best, 'Well done' to Fully Charged, Emo and the TD's. pugh Tigers #31 ps I don't advocate everyone tracking down who gave what score to whoever, but these were announced individually rather than as an average and so I thought it was a good time to strike terror through the heart of bad spirit. Or something. __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
