BD, Regarding any criticisms to Tour2/BritOpen. Nolan, Mike and co run this thing like clockwork. 10 years in, they've pretty much got it nailed down. Quite a bit of the real problems came from having to apply a UKUA/DoC written schedule to their tried and tested format.
I would hate to see the BritOpen crew put off running an event again next year because of all this discussion. I think that once again they did a great job with one exception (which has happened in the past actually) being the lack of toilets on the first night. Almost all of the other issues seem linked to a demanding, long and poorly written in parts, schedule that the TD had to then shoe horn into a set event format that twice in past years have earned them Tournament of the Year. Regarding the doggy doodoo on a pitch...with the average size of a doggy doo being 10cm across and with 20 pitches at 100m x 37m = 74000 square metres it is conceivable that had the crew charged £300 a team to fund hiring 30 extra people to walk all 20 pitches from 6am to 8am each morning, they still might have missed a single piece of poopy. It is legally up to dog owners (of which I am now one) to pick up their dog's poopy (Disc bags are great for this by the way). I think we need to rely on this to a large extent. Steve __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
