If we did we probably wouldn't have more than 20 teams going!! "McLoughlin, Matthew J" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:If a team doesn't enter all tours could they (should they) be stopped from attending nationals?!
Matt -----Original Message----- From: Christian Nistri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 19 August 2005 14:16 To: britdisc@near.me.uk Subject: [BD] Re: BritDisc Digest, Vol 24, Issue 33 Having finally heaved myself on to my high horse does anyone elsewonder about Clapham2 repeatedly entering the Tour and never attendingall the events?I understand blah blah .giving experience to new players blah blahsnore ..at the start of the season LLL decided we would not haveenough for 2 teams ALL year so decided to bite the bullet and playwith a larger squad.I also understand that in the B tour second teams might not always beable to attend every Tour, but as Clapham2 play in the A-tour andtheir participation or not will affect teams promotion/relegation, Ijust would have thought something should happen.However there are other things that I don't understand so I'm sureI'll get 15 different replies containing links etc .just thought Iwould highlight this. Perhaps the idea of paying for a whole a season in advance might be anidea? Or some sort of Chinese water torture. WigsyLLL #2Perennial runner up ;-) > Message: 3> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 13:08:53 +0100> From: Ol? Dea?o > Subject: [BD] Nationals seedings> To: "'BRIT DISC'" > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"> > > If top32 Ranked Open teams elect not to enter Nationals (e.g. Clapham 2;> Fire 2;...)> > everybody shuffles up one, and teams ranked 33, 34... have the option of> attending.> > According to http://www.ukultimate.com/open/tour_rules.aspx#intro> 1.B.4. Nationals format will be based on (at least) a sixteen team basic> knockout format (i.e. no pools), seeded according to the tour finishing> positions. The tournament will be expanded to 32 teams and beyond depending> on the capabilities of the venue.> > > 14 Flyght Club 1> > 15 Paddy Murphy> > 16 Plastic Factory 2> > 17 Clapham 2> > 18 Tenacious Devon 1> > 19 Fire Of London 2> > If they choose to enter, this would currently seed Clapham 2 & Fire 2 i! n the> bottom half. It would *probably* be safe to assume they would break into> the top 16, at the risk of some of those really delicately balanced grudge> match knock out games we all so love.> > Is this actually going to be the case?> > Dean> Factory 2.> __________________________________________________ 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 --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger NEW - crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list BritDisc@near.me.uk http://zion.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
