[BD] Copa Cabana

Tue Sep 5 11:43:10 BST 2006

i cant help but ask...  is this still a joke?  as where i found dans email 
highly amusing, i was expecting a few more laughs from any responses but 
ended up reading what i can only take as a serious email?  a long one at 
that...

confused,

mike

>From: "Jennifer Shaw" <niffer_cat at hotmail.co.uk>
>To: knapp_dan at hotmail.com
>CC: britdisc at ranulf.net
>Subject: RE: [BD] Copa Cabana
>Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 20:35:52 +0000
>
>normally i don't read these emails but as it was about copa i thought i'd 
>have a ganda, and after reading the first three lines i couldn't quite 
>believe what i was hearing! and so felt compelled to read on and got more 
>and more annoyed and frankly pis$ed off at your points that i feel are 
>completely unfoundered.
>
>first off three days of ultimate is never too much, and the health risks 
>(if you play properly), are no greater than playing a weekend tournament. 
>as for your sun burn then i feel this is your own fault, as every person 
>with any sense who is gonna be outside all day will obviously wear sun 
>cream and other protection. also your point about achy muscles, this is 
>what a warm up and warm down is called, anyone who warms up and dowm 
>properly should be fine. and if you are feeling the strain of the three day 
>tourny then the obvious answer is to hold back on your playing or stop for 
>that tourny. Also i feel compelled to point out that you chose to play the 
>three days you could have left on the sunday an only played for the 
>weekend, no where does it say that you have to stay for the whole three 
>days! i would like to make the point that i played for the whole three 
>days, and experienced no problems, and then played at nationals this 
>weekend which i know a lot of other people also did and had no problems 
>with playin .!!!
>
>and if you say this about this three day toruny what about the teams who 
>are going to be playing in worlds in perth in australia in november for a 
>week, where i am guessing that at this time fo year it will be hot and 
>sunny, i don;t think they will really be complaining about there being too 
>much ultimate.
>
>if you felt that your 'graze' was as serious as you obviously feel it is 
>then i am sure there was someone on the site somewhere who could have given 
>you medical attention to sort it out!
>
>as for your points about the socials. Copa is renowned for the social side 
>of it as well as the ultimate side of it. at no point in the captains pack 
>did it say that you had to stay up or even participate in the socials, and 
>you could join or leave at any pointthat you wanted. as for the consumption 
>of alcohol, by the very style of the tourny this is a fun one, and as we 
>are all adults over the age of 18 it is our own descression how much or how 
>little we drink, not for anyone to tell us, for some of us this tourny is a 
>almost a holiday and break from the norm of everyday routine so its nice to 
>have a laugh and let our hair down.
>
>Also being murdered in our beds?!!! bolloks! i'm sorry but, that is highly 
>unlikely first off it would be pretty stupid for someone to target an area 
>so full of people, secondly we weren't really in the area for 'gang 
>shooting' now were we? so in my opinion that was a redickulous claim to 
>make.! not to forget security man with dog was onsite
>
>as for your claims about kit, while in tour and naionals there are clear 
>rules about this and the penalities for not doing this, there are no such 
>rues layed out anywhere for the copa, which i emphasise is a FUN 
>tournament, and its ok for people to play in hawaien shorts if they want as 
>long as both teams are happy that they can clearly distinguish between each 
>other, its not exactly rocket science to make sure one team is darks and 
>one lights now is it?? seriously!
>
>and about the dogs, fair point but if someone was allergic we are outside 
>and they can tell the owners that they were and to avoid them we were on a 
>really big field, and as far as i am aware there were no problems whats so 
>ever, and the dogs were fantastically well behaved being around so many 
>strangers for the whole weekend!.
>
>i feel that if this is what you fell you should say, then i hope you won't 
>be going to copa next year because it obviously isn't the tournament for 
>you, and you obviously feel that if you can't enjoy it then no one else 
>should!
>
>i am sorry if you object to my points but i find the ones you made 
>unjustified and down right rude and insulting to the people who have put so 
>much hard work in organising the copa every aspect from the horrendous time 
>in organising scehdules for so many teams to the fabulous social ideas and 
>socials, amazing food on tap an sumo was awsome!
>
>i would like to add my thanks to the team that made copa this year better 
>than it was last year it was truely awsome! and i really enjoyed it, i 
>loved the three days and i genuinley look forward to this tourny all year, 
>and rave about it to all our freshers as the tourny to go to, so thanx 
>again to tom, steve, dene and flight club an everyone else, you guys are 
>awsome. !
>
>can't wait for next year!
>
>Dan You have been shot down by Raggaduck!
>
>Jen
>
>(mental discs)
>
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