Anna said: "you're saying Mixed is already sidelined... "
Well I think that the majority of teams devote more time to Open / Womens than to Mixed. A lot of the top Mixed teams are just pickup teams that don't train together. Mixed *is* important, for player development too. I agree that Mixed is more inviting to new uni players. Having the Mixed season early is more likely to bring new university players into the Mixed tour since they are less likely to play after term ends. A lot of uni teams can field mixed teams, and this is a good introduction to the Open and Womens tours that occur later in the season. A lot of our (Haze) freshers were almost scared of the Open tour, but we got a mixed team out to MT1. After that the next events were exam times and then they've all gone their separate ways. Keeping the Mixed tour early makes it more accessible, so we get more guys and girls playing Mixed, and we can use it as a springboard for the Open / Womens tours. "Dave's idea of contacting each team directly " I sent my email just before I read Dave's email... apologies (I was really responding to Lewis's 'call for action'). But I think this kind of discussion is important to have in the public arena too - someone might make a really good point that no-one else thought of that might change all our minds. Brummie On 8/18/05, Anna Shipman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 09:49:04 +0100 > >From: Sion Scone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: Re: [BD] the tour - discuss > > > > >Also - as much as I hate to say it - people don't take mixed as > >seriously (generally anyway). There are only a few clubs that I can > >think of that train specifically for the mixed season; the vast > >majority of mixed teams are just pickup combos. I'd like to see loads > >of dedicated mixed teams but in reality it takes second place to > >Open/Womens for 90% of the population. So using Mixed as a pre-season > >for Open / Womens would seem to be a sensible, pragmatic option. > > > > So if I'm reading this correctly, you're saying "Mixed is already sidelined, > let's just admit that that's what's going on & sideline it totally"? I think > you're probably right that Mixed is not important to the majority (of > BritDisc readers at least), but I'm not sure that's quite the right attitude > to take. As one of the few teams that are only interested in playing Mixed > I'd much rather see a follow up to your comment: > > >I'd like to see loads > >of dedicated mixed teams > > Great! Let's think about how we can encourage that, rather than make it more > unlikely! > > Whoever these few teams are, I haven't heard many of them speak up on > BritDisc. I'm guessing that lots of them, maybe less serious teams as you > point out, aren't on BritDisc or don't want to shout about it. Dave's idea > of contacting each team directly rather than a "who can shout loudest" > competition on BritDisc is a good way to give the teams who might feel their > opinion is not as important a chance to speak up. But since there is going > to be a "who can shout the loudest" competition anyway, please can we > dedicate a little bit of shouting to thinking of whether there's a way we > can encourage this less popular, less dedicated, but much more attractive to > some players (like newer players? the ones we want?) part of ultimate? It's > great that the Women's tour is really taking off, can we big up Mixed as > well? > > Anna > SnS - my views not my team's and not intended to cause offence etc etc > > > __________________________________________________ > BritDisc mailing list > BritDisc@near.me.uk > http://zion.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc > Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp > __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list BritDisc@near.me.uk http://zion.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
