I'm fairly sure that a few years ago a very experienced and excellent fox of a TD suggested to the UKU that he run the tour for a season. They weren't interested. That could have been because some of them UKU also ran profit-making tournies back then - so the idea might hold some water now.
Being local to the venue is not a necessary. Sweeks has run successful tournies in Bakewell, while residing in London (albeit after spending time sorting it out the first time). He's not the first - I'm sure Retter's run tournies from a distance in the past too. Interesting that no matter how poor tournaments are, we'll still go back next year there if aren't any competing bids. Perhaps the UKU should simply lower the maximum allowed fee to 100 quid. At least then we'll all feel like we got value for money at badly run events. Laters yt On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Justin Parkhurst<[email protected]> wrote: > BD > > Just one question on Venues. > > There have been many good venues we've used - Luke mentioned some. > We have heard that we don't get enough bids for hosting tournaments though. > Fair point. > > So... has there ever been an effort to set up a list of good venues for > prospective TD's to access? It seems to me (maybe I'm wrong) that bids come > from people booking their local venues they know well. But why not > facilitate a system whereby people who wish to run a tournament can easily > get information on past proven tour venues. > > Is living locally really such an important pre-requisite? (I genuinely don't > know, I'm curious) > > If UKU has a nice accessible list of venues - with important details like: > - contact numbers to talk to the owners > - numbers of pitches available > - costs from past experiences > - other local support services (physios, 1st aiders etc) > - a nice summary of the pros and cons of the venue > etc... > > Would this enable more bids to come in from prospective TOs who at the > moment don't have venues? Would anyone be keen to run a tournament at a > venue not local to them (but well proven in the Ultimate community)? Would > existing TDs not want to 'give up their location' to anyone else? > > -Justin > My thoughts are not my own and are representative my team, my country, and > all institutions to which I am affiliated, including the stonecutters. > > > __________________________________________________ > 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
