[BD] Tour 0: 2008

[ALASTAIR FINDLAY]

You could probably also argue that MMJ and FOL2 have proven themselves to be better than BAF.  To be honest I always saw Tour 0 as being more about making sure the right sides got into the A tour rather than being a seeding tournament,  This was because it was damn hard to get promoted from the B-tour (in previous years if you lost one of your games in the first pool then you had no way of getting promoted).   Thats been sorted this year with a different format for the B-tour that gives teams a second chance to get promoted.    

You might therefore just invite the bottom 4 sides from the A-tour and the top 8 or so from the B and get them to fight it out for the four spots

Ala


----- Original Message ----
From: "McLoughlin, Matthew J" <Matthew.McLoughlin at astrazeneca.com>
To: admin at ukultimate.com; britdisc <britdisc at ranulf.net>
Sent: Friday, 31 August, 2007 12:33:54 PM
Subject: [BD] Tour 0: 2008


After having reviewed the results of the tour this year I was wondering if the UKU were going to implement the same rules for Tour0 next year as they did this year.

In 2007 all teams outside the top4 (based on Nationals 2006) were made to qualify via the Tour0 route.  This was because of "fluctuations" between finishing positions between 5-8 deemed it viable to include the fifth place team.  This season has seen the top 5 positions held only by 5 teams with Leeds taking 5th in every tour and unlucky not to take higher.  Also fluctuations between the 6-9 spots has also been reduced (with Discuits filling one of those spots every time).

The question I want to raise is that next year shouldn't tour 0 be compulsory for teams outside the top 8 based on final tour rankings?

Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: britdisc-bounces at ranulf.net [mailto:britdisc-bounces at ranulf.net]On
Behalf Of Admin
Sent: 21 August 2007 14:56
To: 'britdisc'
Subject: [BD] Open Tour 2007 Final Ranking Positions


Sorry about the delay - the results are up now (including OT3):

http://www.ukultimate.com/previous_open_division_results/2007_tour

The 11th year of the UKUA Tour seemed to go pretty well:
- Clapham retained the Ben Rainbow Trophy (aka "the Rock") - but didn't have
things all their own way
- The first ever Tour 0 - a "qualifying round" - generally considered a
success and likely to be retained in 2008
- A total of 49 open teams played in Tours 1,2 and 3
- 37 of the teams played in all three rounds
- 14 clubs fielded two teams
- Only 12 teams remained in the A Tour for all three rounds
- 7 teams (ranked 13th-19th) bounced up and down between the two divisions -
sometimes breaking into the top 12
- ABH was the highest ranked team that didn't play in the A Tour
- Definitely the worst weather we've ever had across the whole Tour!
Although in 1997, Tour 4 (of 5) at Southampton was abandoned due to
lightning on Sunday afternoon before the final positioning games could be
played.

Women's results to follow shortly...

Si


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