Bad news about the Derby venue. Tour 2 Women and C-Tour will NOT take place in Derby, but will instead happen at Shobnall in Burton-on-Trent (a venue used for a mixed tour event in 2008).
I am very sorry for the switch, and I hope very much that the fact we advertised the Derby venue as provisional means that people have waited for confirmation one way or the other before booking travel and hotels. The background is that for various reasons (e.g. some issues we had last year, the fact this was a new venue, etc) I decided to check it personally. So when I had the chance to be going past Derby a little while back, I left early and stopped off to have a look. I also met the person responsible for the fields. I came away concerned that although the fields themselves were probably ok, there were issues with the non-playing facilities (changing rooms) and especially security - certainly to players' kit and their cars. The event is being organised by UltiEvents (SET Tours) and so we discussed these issues, and they looked into solutions. In the end we came to the conclusion that the best thing to do was move it to another venue that was relatively close by. The new venue is less than 15 miles / 30 mins drive from the original advertised venue. More details will be available about plans at Shobnall soon - they will be posted on the website: http://www.ukultimate.com/2010/06/19/uku_open_womens_tour_2_2010_wc Again - apologies for the switch. Its obviously disappointing that this has occurred. But, by way of highlighting the positive aspects. In previous years it is likely that nobody else would have inspected the fields, and provided a second opinion - we would have gone ahead and used the venue - and I suspect spent some significant amount of BD time afterwards dissecting how on earth it was allowed to happen. So this time: its not been allowed to happen, and we've fallen back to a venue that has been used relatively successfully before. I'd like to thank the team at SET Tours for their help resolving all this. I'm sure the event will work out well now. Si Simon Hill, UK Ultimate Email: [email protected] Postal address: UK Ultimate, 27 Old Gloucester Road, LONDON WC1N 3AX Tel: +44 (0) 844 8045949 __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
