Shorten the Indoor Season, eh?
Or, from the other perspective: lengthen the outdoor tournament season. If the way the weather has been this recent autumn/winter/spring is going to be typical of future years, this seems a reasonable suggestion. Here's the catch - many of our current tournament venues are used for football or rugby and, to a lesser extent, hockey. How do we get these venues when they've been bulk-booked from early October to late April for football ? If anyone has any clever ideas for this, please let me know! (BTW, I've already enquired of a couple of venues about availability in April 2003, and the response has been "we're probably holding football matches, if the weather allows") Wayne Tue, 9 Apr 2002, by Chris Berry <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Subject: Why not shorten the indoor season? >Dear All, > >After following the interesting discussion on tour divisions, mixed events >and saturation of the calender i would like to throw in some suggestions. > >Firstly, i believe that separating the Tour into two divsions should be >avoided in principle. I can remember when i first started what a thrill it >was watching and learning from the best teams in the country - it is a >valuable part of the tournament experience for those that are new to the >game. As i say, i disaggree in principle but am not blind to the >impracticalities of hosting a 40+ tournament and don't have any better >solutions than those suggested. Onlt that we perhaps could use a 'winter >league' style qualification before the outdoor season. > >Keeping the Tour and Mixed tour separate is imperitive: making players >choose between mixed and open would be damaging to both mixed ultimate and >the progress of womens ultimate in this country. It would also push the team >numbers in the open division higher still. The efforts of Nancy Stebbing and >Co. should not be dismissed and those that wish to play in both divisions >will just have to appreciate their hectic Ultimate Calender. > >The Uk is one of the few nations that play indoors, the US play outdoor all >year round so it seems strange that here in the UK we allocate 5 months of >the Ultimate calender to it. A simple solution to the saturation of the >Outdoor calender would be to increase the length of the season as their is >no real reason why we can't play all year round. Starting the Tour in March( >or even February) would open up the ultimate calender so that the tour >didn't dominate the season. It would also encourage more students to play >outdoors as there would be more outdoor non-tour events during term time. >This may demand a small sacrifice to the shmindoor season but as many will >agree, it shouldn't hold back the growth of ultimate in the country. > >May i also suggest that to allow easier scheduling of large tour tournaments >that we aim to hold them over bank holiday weekends and make them a three >day event? > >Chris Berry (Un Poco Loco) >....waiting to be beaten down from all angels by smindoor lovers >everywhere!!! > > >"I married Miss Right," conceded Harry. "I just didn�t know her first name >was Always." > > >_________________________________________________________________ >MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: >http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne Retter mobile: 07970-903420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] office: 01737-273655
