I personally welcome this experiment having moved back to playing more football than ultimate due in part to several terrible self refereeing experiences at Toms Tourney and WUGC last season. Some of the things I experienced last season in ultimate have made me seriously consider my desire to play the sport at the most competitive levels. While I think that Ultimate is a great sport and should be enjoyed by millions of people, I think that only once you experience playing teams that do not share the ideals of spirit of the game will you begin to question ultimate's potential to grow beyond what it is at the minute as a competitive sport. While MLU might not be the answer to this, I think it is good that people are willing to try somthing new and I am very keen to experience it. I do not see any reason why people who want to play ultimate cannot continue doing so and people who want to try somthing different can do so also. So if this goes ahead I will for sure be looking to get onto one of the lucky teams who get to try it first. Derryk, Fusion # 6, Ireland # 9
--- On Mon, 12/1/09, MLU UK <[email protected]> wrote: From: MLU UK <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [BD] Major League Ultimate 2009 To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 12 January, 2009, 11:38 PM First off, apologies for the error in the date suggested, it would be the 18th and 19th. At the moment this will be open division only. There is of course, potential to open it up to womens in the future depending on how successful it is. Invitations have not been issued, details about this will follow when they are 100% finalised, but the way the teams will be selected will involve each of the top 3-4 university teams from each region being allocated slots on the team (for example, 1st gets 4 places, 2nd gets 3 etc). The university core of each team will then select open players by invitation, or by selection from requests. Spectator-wise there have been no plans made as of yet, as it is the first time the tournament is being run and therefore level of spectator interest is so far unknown. We will be using four referees, who will be selected out of availability for regular, weekly trainings in manchester to practice the application of the rules, and the use of a whistle in an Ultimate game. We would like to further re-iterate that this is in no way an attempt to change the way ultimate is played generally in the UK. __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
