[BD] Nationals

[Adam Batchelor]

Dear All, Re Nationals 13th / 14th September Firstly, and least importantly, Jo is bloke not a girl. Secondly and very importantly why the late date change. The change of personnel at the beginning of the year and the effects thereof have been documented elsewhere so I shall not bore you by repeating myself. The date for Nationals was set for the 6th / 7th Sept back in March / April this year when their were no firm bids, just soft bids available except for a "reserve" bid from Matt and I at the Tour 1 venue to ensure that the event did have a degree of certainty about taking place. The only possible date for the Bristol venue was this date.  Needless to say, as Bristol had already been a venue for a Tour this year it was felt that ideally we should using another locality. Much effort was put into this from the various soft bids, but at the beginning of June / end of May this reserve option was taken away from us as the Bristol venue had a requirement from the private school which owns them and this removed the premier pitches and hence removed Bristol from the table. The soft options then all fell by the wayside leaving us with a change of date and Jo's bid being the only option. Hence the date change. On the positive side, the venue does appear to have a very high pedigree. This final information about date change and venue has been known for about a week or so but the details were being finalised and hence, have only now been released. Moving on: The future does look brighter as the following years schedule is now being put together in the September / October along with invitations to bid and a set of minimum standards for all UKU tournaments to aspire to, with various codes of practice for all concerned. So for next year, dates, venues etc will all be known and set before the beginning of the year. Also, of course, their will be the much talked about changes to the Tour which should ease the problems with venue size. Thirdly, on behalf of the organisation of our sport, I would like to apologise for the inconvenience this action will cause some of you and I wish that it had not occurred. Fourthly I would like to thank Rik Shipley and his crew for being so brilliantly accommodating and successful in moving Glastonbury. You make life easier for those trying to run our sport. Fifthly! On a positive note is does give all our GB squad members an extra week to recover which is no small benefit for the quality of Ultimate at our National Championships! Hope this makes it clearer, but as ever, if you have any queries call your mo....! Actually don't, just let me know and I will try and answer them. Cheers Adam Batchelor Punchbag for Chris Hughes DoC! ----- Original Message ----- From: "steve henderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 9:27 AM Subject: [BD] UKU Nationals Dates > All, > I have also just seen that the Glastonbury tournament has moved to a later date.... pretty much confirming that the Nationals HAS moved back a week. > > what's going on with the diary here. > It is only seven weeks (and one day) before I was due to drive down. For me, I am sorry, but that is not much notice for such a major event > > Don't know about anybody else, but I have already got work and family commitments organised around these dates that were set last year > > IF the nationals has changed, when were they changed??? > I have mailed jo, but have no reply yet (only mailed her 45 mins ago...) > Does anybody have any info about this > > z--- Original Message --- > From: "Fingers Six" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Fwd: [BD] UKU Nationals > Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 21:06h > > hold on a minute isn't this the same weekend as glastonbury? > > james-f6uk > > - Get an SMS alert to your mobile every time you get an email. That's ANY mobile phone. Register for FREE with t-email at www.t-email.co.uk to access your email and contacts via web and WAP - > > > > > __________________________________________________ > BritDisc mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://pootle.near.me.uk/mailman/listinfo/britdisc > Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp >