TW> I'm fairly sure that a few years ago a very experienced and excellent fox of a TD suggested to the UKU TW> that he run the tour for a season.
Very true and slightly more detail... said proposer suggested that he'd become semi-professional and dedicate a vast amount of resource (time and money) into searching for suitable venues, investing in equipment to run events (e.g. a transit van packed with marquees, cones, scoreboards and water-bottles) and then setting up and running the events. The ideal term would have been more than one season, in order to offset investment costs against a longer return. TW> They weren't interested. Not entirely... it's my (slightly fuzzy, so possibly not entirely accurate!) recollection that there was a preference to run a bidding system in order to encourage other and new TDs to be involved; and to reduce the potential financial implications of a monopoly; the potential risks if/when such a monopoly decided it wasn't willing to continue (e.g. what if everyone else 'forgot' how to run a tournament). TW> Being local to the venue is not a necessary. Sweeks has run successful tournies in Bakewell, while residing in TW> London (albeit after spending time sorting it out the first time). He's not the first - I'm sure Retter's TW> run tournies from a distance in the past too. Agreed. I would point out that it ought to require at least a couple of visits to a venue (I've been known to walk the fields to assist the groundsmen in laying out pitches and dealing with molehills/potholes). In fact, I'm in the first stages of making contact with my favourite of those venues again, with a view to something in 2010. It'll be a max of 16 pitches - probably less, because pro football is willing to pay money to STOP us playing there, so we may be looking at a LOT of money. It may become quite elitest, and quite possibly not a Tour event... --- Wayne Retter wayne[dot]wrecker[at]ntlworld[dot]com __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
