From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wed Sep 24 15:52:45 1997 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk id PAA07923; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:32:24 +0100 (BST) Received: from orange.easynet.co.uk by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id PAA07897; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:31:56 +0100 (BST) Received: from easynet.co.uk (kiwi.easynet.co.uk [193.131.248.4]) by orange.easynet.co.uk (8.8.6/8.6.9) with SMTP id PAA10836 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:19:33 +0100 (BST) Received: (qmail 28365 invoked from network); 24 Sep 1997 14:13:20 -0000 Received: from larry.texcel.co.uk (HELO texcel.co.uk) (195.40.103.11) by kiwi.easynet.co.uk with SMTP; 24 Sep 1997 14:13:20 -0000 Received: from dreamer.demon.co.uk by texcel.co.uk (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA25612; Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:10:41 +0100 Message-ID: <34291F61.FE825439@dreamer.demon.co.uk> Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 15:10:41 +0100 From: Neil Travers <neil@dreamer.demon.co.uk> Organization: Home(ish) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.02 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4d) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: Re: Regionals References: <l03102805b04ebd850bf1@[137.205.222.1]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Dave Neilson wrote: > I think that Regional Championships are VERY important I disagree. Now they are not part of the qualification for nationals I don't see them as relevant or important at all. Are regions really necessary in the UK. They were only introduced because there were too many teams for a single Nationals. Regionals will only be a tournament to see who's best in the region, something that can be seen from the Tour results probably. The Regions are not some great necessity like in USA, Canada or possibly Germany. They are a convenience. Regionals have been left in a very strange position. No qualifying status, no reason for them to happen. I think it IS important to have more non Tour tournaments, but I'm not sure it has to be Regionals. Maybe some more regionally based non Tour tournaments e.g. Milton Keynes and Nottingham (?) were on the same weekend. I'd still like Regionals to happen, but only because I want another non Tour tournament. -- Neil Travers - home <neil@dreamer.demon.co.uk> Fluid Druids, UK http://www.dreamer.demon.co.uk/