Thanks Nick I hope other people will see this and feel the same way.
I believe the Tour has been an important element of the growth of Ultimate in the UK in the last 10 years. But I also believe even more strongly that we have to be prepared to make changes to it. If our teams and players are going to keep improving then we/they all need more chances to play and watch other teams. The best way to make that happen right now is to invite teams from Europe to come and play. In the Open division, one or two of the nearest European teams coming to Tour 1 are considering coming to Tour 2 (and maybe Tour 3) aswell. Most will only come for one event - but its set to be the toughest Tour event we've ever had - and I reckon at least 10 of the teams will be disappointed if they don't make semis. Our intention is to make this happen every year - that is, a London-based Tour event in late May or June where we work hard to bring in extra and different teams from outside the UK. I hope we can also start to attract teams that want to play in the B- and C-Tour too. In the Women's division we've only got one team this year. Several of the other top teams were keen, but just couldn't quite get enough players. I'm talking to them about next year now. Cheers Si > -----Original Message----- > From: Nick B [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 11 May 2010 22:25 > To: [email protected]; BritDisc > Subject: Re: [BD] UKU Tour 1 2010 A + W : London Calling > > I was all set to get upset about there being 7! SEVEN!! foreign teams > in the UKU A Tour denying homegrown talent the opportunity to play > there, until I counted the number of teams from the UK and realised > that the division had been expanded from 16 to 17 giving a pool of 24 > and huge opportunities for everyone in the top 17 to play > international teams on hometurf. > > Now I'm jealous that I'm just not good enough to be in A tour. Yet. > I just hope Div B doesn't have the same early morning Sunday start. > > Awesome work Si. > > Nick > PAF / Curve > (my views not those of my teams etc) > > > On 11 May 2010 15:38, UKU Admin <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi there > > > > Just quick message to confirm teams for Open A-Tour and also the > current > > list of teams for the Women's event. Please check the list. If you > think > > there is a mistake please let me know - esp. if you are intending to > enter > > and do not seem to be in the list. > > > > The schedule will be available as soon as possible, but for now: > > Games on Saturday will not start before 9am - hopefully a little > later. > > Some teams will get a later start and we'll try to confirm who they > are as > > soon as we can. We are planning for all games to be completed by > 6:30pm - > > although most teams will finish in the previous time slot. > > Games on Sunday will start earlier than usual - possibly 8:30am - to > help > > visiting teams complete their games and catch their flights. This > start > > time will affect most teams. > > The last time slot will start at approx 2pm. We are planning to > start the > > finals at 2.30pm, but reserve the right to move it earlier if one or > more of > > the finalists have flights to catch. > > > > Team lists below: > > > > WOMEN DIVISION: > > Iceni > > LeedsLeedsLeeds > > Nice Bristols > > Brighton Ultimate > > ISO > > Dirty Olive > > Crown Jewels > > SWIFT > > Ltd Release Ladies > > The Brown > > Lady Lemmings > > Northern Lights > > GBJW > > Dolly Mixtures > > YAKA (France) > > > > To be confirmed: > > Nice Bristols 2 > > Dirty Olive 2 > > Pickup (organised by Crown Jewels - thanks) > > > > > > OPEN DIVISION: > > Clapham Ultimate > > chevron ACTION flash > > Fire 1 > > Brighton Ultimate > > Fire 2 > > EMO > > Fusion 1 > > Tooting Tigers > > Team Shark > > LeedsLeedsLeeds Open > > The Brown > > Ltd Release 1 > > Charged > > Devon 1 > > Strange Blue 1 > > Vision Ultimate > > Burro Electrico > > Karhukopla (Finland) > > Ragnarok (Denmark) > > Inside Rakete (Germany) > > Silence (Czech Rep.) > > M.U.C. (Germany) > > Cambo Cakes (Netherlands) > > Dublin Ultimate (Ireland) > > > > Thanks > > > > Si > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > 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
