Hey BD, If the 2010 UKUA calendar is under consideration, we'd like to prompt some discussion into the format of Women's Tour. Considering there has been an incredible growth in the women's division in the last couple of years comments about the women's division are strangely quiet on the BD front (and also on the UKUW list). Firstly though, thanks to all involved in putting on the Tour series this year - the experience for Crown Jewels was that Tours were well run and successful.
Our observations in the women's divisions were: Much higher level of play in 2009 compared with last year, within our pool (5-8) and also in cross-over games. Final tournament rankings were less predictable and on the most part varied through the season as much as they could given the Tour format (certainly within the 5-8 pool and from what we can tell, also within the 8-16 pool). With that in mind we'd like to ask that UKUA / UKUW to consider few things when putting together next year's format. A seeding tournament for Women's? The need for this probably depends on the format of the tours, although I think we were all disappointed to only play 3 Tours this year - more women's Ultimate is never a bad thing! Again, our experience of overall improvement in teams would support a pre-Tour seeding tournament as seen in Open tour. Tour formats Use mixed pools rather than consecutive peer pools. Sure, it was great for our team to go away and come up with strategies to overcome the offense / defence that we faced each time we played our closely-seeded peers (11 of our 19 games in 2009 were against the same 3 teams). However as a young club, looking to develop further, we learnt more from playing teams (especially the higher ranked teams) we'd only come across infrequently or never before. We feel there's the potential for women's ultimate to develop hugely in the UK but if Tour continues to focus so closely on peer / super-peer pools, given the limited amount of women's ultimate available, we feel this opportunity is diminished. Agree / Disagree, it'd be great to hear from other women's teams! Cheers, Jo, Lara, Amy Crown Jewels ________________________________ From: Matthew Ford <[email protected]> To: Britdisc <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, 24 August, 2009 4:45:13 PM Subject: Re: [BD] UKUA 2010 Events Calendar Could I also kindly request that all student and junior tournaments are also published up on the events page on ukultimate.com as soon as they're confirmed please. I know this request comes out every year (usually from an angry Thrash), but it's frustrating when the tournament you're organising turns out to clash with three student events... Thanks y'all Whippet > Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:55:57 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > CC: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [BD] UKUA 2010 Events Calendar > > It's under discussion just now. Admittedly, it is taking rather longer > than we'd hoped, but better perhaps that we get it right than that we > have to change it. Expect announcements within a couple of weeks. > > B > > Wayne Retter (aka Wrecker) wrote: > > FAO Competitions Committee, I guess... > > > > Is there an outline of 2010 events, yet? and especially dates by which > > outdoor (Mixed/Open/Womens Tour) tournament bids would need to be submitted > > and winners would be announced? > > > > Thanks > > Wayne > > > > --- > > Wayne 'Wrecker' 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 > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > BritDisc mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc > Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed _________________________________________________________________ Upgrade to Internet Explorer 8 Optimised for MSN. http://extras.uk.msn.com/internet-explorer-8/?ocid=T010MSN07A0716U __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed __________________________________________________________________________________ Find local businesses and services in your area with Yahoo!7 Local. Get started: http://local.yahoo.com.au __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
