Running tournaments isn't easy and TD's are few are far between. Maybe this interrogation on BD after an event doesnt help. A first event at a new site is never going to be easy. Yes there may have been things that were over looked but we need to encourage more rather than cause potential TD's to think twice about even searching for venues.
As far as money goes...if TD's are making a bucket load of profit would we not have loads of bids? We don't seem to, so it can't be that financial lucrative for the effort / hassle that is needed. I nearly decided to run for Director of Competitions but Britdisc emails put me off. They also would put me off being a TD. I think the best thing the UKU could do is make britdisc an announcement group only (or even scrap it altogether) and set up a complaints procedure through the organisation. These complaints could then be vetted and reported back to the UK community in a condense form with responses from relevant parts of the UKU in a newsletter every couple of months. Another idea is each team could (spirit) score the tournament by have different areas to score on and feed them back to the UKU and TD's (sounds a bit like Ofsted report cards *shudders*). Maybe UKU could take a cut of the team fee and then reward the best scoring tournament with that money accumulated! (I'm going to get a few flaming emails about that last sentence :S ). Lewis -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom White Sent: 08 June 2009 21:09 To: Justin Parkhurst Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BD] Venues? 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 __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
