Hi George, I agree that smaller teams do find it difficult to commit early, but I think that Hannah's point was that the bigger teams could and should follow Leed's example and pay their club earlier, allowing for early payment at tournaments.
Tour 1 in Bristol shows that one way to get more pitch time available is to start earlier. Our team managed to survive an early Sunday start and win their 8am game. I hope that there are other teams currently in the B Tour that would also choose to get up early if it meant better length games. There have been a few suggestion of B Tour teams being ripped off (or at least getting fewer minutes for their entry fee). While it might please some B Tour teams to get better value for money, I don't want a discount for less playing time. Instead I'd would prefer to get longer games that would give us useful insight into the effort and commitment required to survive in the A Tour. Possum UTB #3 p.s. The spelling, grammar and views in this email are solely my own and don't neccessarily reflect those of my team mates. > I don't see how this will solve the problem hannah. This > may be all well and > good for the larger teams. It will increase, slightly, > the number of teams > signing up early but there will always be small clubs who > want to enter Tour > who cannot commit early. The problem arises due to the > open entry to Tour. > As I can't see this being abolished there will always be > the danger of > over-subscription for an event which will cause problems > with pitch time. > I do think that its unacceptable that Tour A gets so much > more pitch time > than anyone else for the same price. Someone questioned > earlier why there > isn't a standard game length in the UK. The question > wasn't answered but > it'd be interesting to hear peoples points of view on it. Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list BritDisc@near.me.uk http://zion.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
