Let me give the 'official' response. At the BULA/WFDF SOTG committee our goal was to create the scoring sheet in such a way that if it is just a good game, no issues, no major positives. It is a 5x2 = 10 points in total. If you see positives in certain categories you reward those and the reverse of course. That is how it was designed and how it should be used.
With regards to that last question on the sheet: spirit is about yourself. We could have made the entire sheet a team reflection sheet, but we knew that this would not get adoption. However the last question in the sheet is meant for you to evaluate yourself and be honest. Did _you_ play with good spirit? I hope this helps settle the matter. Patrick --- Patrick van der Valk [email protected] | +351 918 412 363 President - Beach Ultimate Lovers Association Chairman - WFDF Beach Ultimate Committee Chairman - WFDF Spirit of the Game Committee -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of wilkinson chris Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2011 5:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [BD] Spirit Scoring As someone who plays for 2 teams who are either 'lower down in the tour rankings' * or 'have little/no experience of higher level play'* I have to disagree with a number of the points raised by Scott Martin. As a member of Devon 3 I really don't find that either myself or my team mates 'detest contact of any type' indeed, as primarily a development team I often find a similar attitude to contact as that experienced in my other team, Second Wind, which is still primarily made up of people who work for the Met. Office. In Second Wind we try to encourage 'average' people to find a love of ultimate by trying something new. This has resulted in people such as myself who had never met the sport before taking it up at the age of 44 and footballers, rugby players and the like also playing. Prior to this last year, Second Wind has competed in very few tournaments, but we managed to collect the Spirit Trophy at Disco Inferno this year. I strongly disagree that football is a 'non contact' sport at all, indeed at lower levels it is often much more physical than at higher; something I myself find to be true of Ultimate, and something we often find somewhat difficult to instill in the footballers trying out the sport, or those who take part in the games which we in Second Wind have managed to get instated as part of Sports Day at the Met. Office. To Quote - 'I'm not against an 'out of twenty' system, but I absolutely HATE the final question of 'your spirit compared to theirs' and have never even heard mention of a team who has marked their own team down in favour of giving points to the other without somewhat ignoring the question to do so.' You have now! As Captain of Santa's Little Helpers at Iron 5 in December, (Spirit winners again) I persuaded my team to do exactly that. I personally don't see this as saying "We were poorly spirited" but, especially in this instance, as a way of saying "they had more opportunity to call themselves out/ call fouls against themselves and didn't shy away from doing so" Your 'new' explanation sheet is interesting, but for me there is a very sharp demarcation between the mark of 2 and 1, a little along the lines of - 4, excellent 3, good 2, okay 1, ZOMG THEY WERE TERRIBLE. Cheers Santa {(-:)> * I'm sorry if I'm taking this the wrong way, but is it just me that finds this sort of demarcation a little patronising; along the lines of 'we play better than you so we know more about this sort of thing' ? __________________________________________________ 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
