It is all well and good trying to compare the UK
with the US and finding that the US has far more
people, university training etc, but the country
that did the best in Finland was.. Canada (thanks
to the Finnish women making the final)
with only 30 million people, pretty ropey university
ultimate and bugger all funding.
On the other hand, a mid-sized city, say Calgary
(population about 800,000) has 2 separate ultimate
leagues, each with about 50 - 80 teams playing every
week (as long as the weather allows). A large city,
like Vancouver has over 250 hundred teams, playing
competitive ultimate every week. Oh, yeah and practising
as well.
The tournament structure in the UK is more advanced than
Canada, but the leagues are, well leagues behind.
Just more fuel for the fire.
Batty
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