Goooood afternoon everyone,
Hopefully those who have Freshers Fayres and things going on are having them
go well. The following is an email that I've sent for each of the last
couple of years and it's pretty straight-forward and hopefully won't be new
news for anyone.

Coming up quite soon is Uni Open Indoor Regionals, and then Open Indoor
Nationals. And next year is the same, but Outdoors. In order to play for any
team in any stage in any of these competitions there are many complicated
criteria you must meet, myriad boxes to tick as it were: (I realise that
it's fiddly, so I'll go slowly and clearly.)

a) you must be a student of that University/institute.

Aaaand we're done. If you're not a student, you are ineligible to play. If
you are a student, you are only able to play for the place at which you are
enrolled to study. In Open competition, you can't just decide that you'd
rather play for someone else. And if your team doesn't have enough for Open
competition, then you can't get pickups from other places. Unfortunate? Yes.
Necessary? Even more yes.

We do not distinguish between Regionals and Nationals. We do not distinguish
between the group stage of a tournament, and the knockout stage. If you are
eligible, then you are eligible for the whole thing. So if you are
ineligible... well, anyone want to hazard?

Deciding to dodge around what I say will render a thousand poxes upon your
houses. An actual thousand.

If there is even the slightest shadow of doubt as to what the situation for
yourself or teammate is, get in touch. It would be quite catastrophic to
assume everything is fine, and for it not to be. I am *entirely* happy
getting 50 emails in the next hour starting "Can I just confirm...". There
is no question too silly to check about, there is only silly people who
don't check.

Yours,
Edd
PS. Hayley and Megan will be along in due course regarding the Mixed and
Womens criteria.
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