BD,
I'd appreciate some feedback on the Mixed Nats schedule. Clearly there
were a lot of games, but this was close to inevitable - the other
options were to limit (to 16 or 8) the number of teams who could win, or
to give no chance to recover after pool play (and no chance to move up
significantly from the lower seedings).
The total amount of game time was slightly less than a standard Open
Tour format, but slightly more than is normal at Mixed Tour. I'd
appreciate people's thoughts on the best way forward in the future - we
do worry about the effects of exhaustion. Everyone would be physically
better off if we were to play 2*90mins per day (or equivalent in shorter
games) to reduce the risk of injury through exhaustion. However, I'm
absolutely convinced that something like that would create far more
complaints than a gruelling schedule such as we had this weekend.
Anyway, any thoughts on the approach taken this weekend would be
appreciated.
Also, apologies to any teams who had a bye. We did actually write a
backup schedule for 40 teams, but since we were not aware of any
dropouts until well after the tournament had started, we were unable to
switch to that schedule. Perhaps all teams will bear in mind that things
like this are the reason that schedules come out late, and that a
no-show messes all the other teams around unnecessarily.
Cheers,
Benji
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Ben Heywood
Director of Ultimate, University of St Andrews
Director of Competitions, UK Ultimate
www.ukultimate.com
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