Hello BD, Somewhat earlier than most years yet already something like 8 months in the making, the Copa Cabana is finally open for registration! ( http://ffindr.com/en/event/copa-cabana-2010)
The yearly festival of Ultimate that rounds off the competitive year with a nice chilled out 72 hour party is back with a vengeance! Some of you have been tracking it's progress via the Copa twitter account ( http://twitter.com/thecopa) Some via the website (http://www.thecopa.co.uk) Some via my constant rantings about the difficulties of trying to set this 10th anniversary edition Copa.... ...those lucky few will know how it has travelled from the Grove Farm pitches in Nottingham where our new Rugby club got cold feet and bailed out...to the beaches where Copa del Soul will be...where it turned out that hiring toilets on a bank holiday weekend at that beach requires a much more significant financial outlay than one would expect... and now the Copa is back home again.... So...in a giant lesson that says, if it ain't broke don't fix it, the Copa is back at our trustworthy venue, The Nottingham Moderns Rugby Club and the adjacent fields known as The Meadows. This year plans to be different and basically bigger and better than before. Differences are...two divisions. An elite (aka Champagne)...hoping to bring in some bigger and better competition. An the Open (aka Beer) for the rest of us to muck about in. If, as some predict, nobody actually wants to play elite at the Copa...we'll just drop it and expand the Beer division. Another difference....Bigger Copa Tent!! See details below.... The Cost: Last year we experimented with a player fee and the idea of running the tournament like an event should be run. That being proper security, real first aid people with an on-site ambulance, more toilets, more volunteers to help with the clean up and proper event insurance in case the whole place spontaneously combusted. Lesson learned. Proper events are expensive. The result that came from it all was a proper budget for this year and the correct price to do what we want. This year the cost will be: £100 team fee + a £30 player fee. While we realise that in comparison with UK event pricing this is bordering on insane. However in comparison with our European tournament friends on the mainland this is actually a pretty reasonable price and it doesn't require Ryanair to get to it. What you'll get.... 3 days of Ultimate. 3 nights of Party til stupid'O'clock. NEWS!: We're weather proofing this year. Instead of a Copa tent AND a separate stage with live music and fun. We'll be having a Copa Tent WITH...the Copa Stage and Fun INSIDE!!! That's the biggest change actually. A huge big top with all festivities inside it. That leads us to the next item... 1 Full Stage with Live Music, Karoake and maybe...Rock Band (the game) again. We'll see what people think about that this year. Camping. On-site for free. Player Gift! "What will it be?" Quite a few cool things on the cards, trust us that you'll like it and probably won't already have one. Breakfast. This year will be better than in the past. You'll be able to get a big continental breakfast and also assemble a lunch from the breakfast brown bag and take away. ....and more. We're always planning. It always depends on the budget and what we can do to make sure we spend it all on stuff you'll love to make this event memorable and keep you coming back for more and more! Theme this year...too be announced...we've thought...Rio and Carnival...we've thought...Reggae Reggae...plenty of time to decide. Ideas appreciated as it'll affect the player gift. Register here... (http://ffindr.com/en/event/copa-cabana-2010) ! Regards Steve and Dene Copa TDs and Flyght Club <http://ffindr.com/en/event/copa-cabana-2010> -- ------------------ __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
