[BD] Re: Tour 0

[Oscar]

I'm confused.
What is the point of the European Ultimate Championship Series again?
I thought that the point of this was to allow the top European clubs to play
against each other in competition every year.
My view of the UK ULTIMATE Tour is that it is there to improve the standard
of UK Ultimate teams. We have made the (successful, I think) move to split
tours, preventing the top teams from having a walkover first day (a shame,
to some extent, because I feel that some of my best learning experiences
when I started playing Ultimate were in teams walked over by the top teams.
I particularly remember scoring on Adam Batchelor in a 15-1 hammering of
Bears by Fluid Druids ;-p). Now we seem to be making the move to depriving a
team who have earnt their Top 16 position from competition against the Top
clubs in the country. Therefore, probably confining them to a walkover first
day in B Tour.
Having watched The Brown develop from a distance over the past couple of
years, I have been extremely impressed with their development, drive and
ability and I feel that they are entirely deserving of an A Tour place.
Lets leave the European competition for the European competitions and let
the best 16 UK teams play in the A Tour of the UK Tour.
Oscar
FlyghtClub Open Coordinator
(my views and not, necessarily, those of my team/teammates.

On 03/04/07, Robert Alpen <ralpen at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I for one think it would be a terrific idea if we were
> to invite on international team for each tour.  Maybe
> we could leave a designated seed for them each time
> (maybe 4th place?).  It would spice things up for a
> lot of teams who are tired of just beating the crap
> out of each other every single tour.  Finally, this
> would be a great way to make UK ultimate the focal
> point of European Ultimate.  I'm not proposing being
> swamped by European team, just one team/tour.  I also
> think that the Women's tour would benefit from this
> even more than the Open tour.
>
> As far as the Big EZ is concerned, they are a very
> spirited team that performed far beyond expectations
> last year at the EUCF finishing 4th.  Obviously they
> have had a taste of success and are hungry to improve.
> I would love to see them at a tour.
>
> Rob Alpen
> Clapham Ultimate
> --- Chris <chris.wilkinson at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Adam Batchelor" <adam.batchelor at virgin.net>
> > To: <li51jp at surrey.ac.uk>
> > Cc: <britdisc at ranulf.net>
> > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 2:52 PM
> > Subject: [BD] Re: Tour 0
> >
> >
> > "There is an Austrian team The BigEz looking to
> > enter the first A tour.
> > Ad"
> >
> > Well whoot de doot!
> >
> > Surely any team wanting to enter A tour would have
> > had to qualify at Tour 0,
> > otherwise you are saying that any non UK team that
> > fancies can just waltz in
> > to the A Tour. Would we be able to do the same in
> > France or Germany? (Or
> > Austria for that matter). Don't get me wrong, I
> > enjoy playing against
> > 'foreign' teams, played against 2 at Discophilia
> > Open recently, but this
> > isn't really on.
> > {(-:)>
> > Santa
> > Tenacious Devon
> >
> >
> >
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