From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Tue Oct 7 18:49:23 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) id SAA07844 for britdisc-outgoing; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 18:21:48 +0100 (BST) Received: from waltz.worldcom.com (waltz.interliant.com [198.64.193.157]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id SAA07513 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 18:19:24 +0100 (BST) Received: (from smtp@localhost) by waltz.worldcom.com (8.8.5/Interliant) id MAA00510 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 12:14:27 -0500 (CDT) Received: from internet-502.interliant.com(198.64.193.192) by waltz.worldcom.com via smap (V1.3) id smab00474; Tue Oct 7 12:14:24 1997 Received: by internet-502.interliant.com(Lotus SMTP MTA v1.1 (385.6 5-6-1997)) id 86256529.005EDB7F ; Tue, 7 Oct 1997 12:16:05 -0500 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ILGW @ C&L GB @ C&L INT @ C&L INT EXTERNAL@INTERLIANT @ OUTBOUND From: "Ian Stebbing"<Ian_Stebbing@gb.coopers.com> To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Message-ID: <86256529.005ED30D.00@internet-502.interliant.com> Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 15:55:03 +0100 Subject: Tour Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Just a few comments on the recent postings. Balanced Ultimate calendar - I think that this year the Tour became virtually the whole season which was unfortunate. This was partly due to Southampton (an established tournament) becoming a tour event and Lurkers (Croydon) unfortunately not happening. In the end I don't think we have had any non-tour tournaments this season where any of the worlds teams turned up with a near full squad. Nationals etc. I personally am against the tour being the qualification for nationals because either they are separate items or they are not and right now we seem to be stuck in a half way house. I also see the point that students are unlikely to be able to field full teams every time and northern teams struggle to make all the tour events. If regionals are qualification for Nationals they will happen and a teams ability to reach nationals will not depend upon being able to attend with a full squad all the seasons tournaments. Tour and usefulness to worlds teams - For the Druids I do not think the tour helped at all, but this is not necessarily the tour's fault but to some extent our unwillingness to lose games we could have won just to learn and practise new ideas and tactics. However more games against lower ranked teams may have given us this opportunity. Ian Stebbing (still) Druids ps please ignore the dire warning at the bottom but its company email! -- **************************************** This document should only be read by those persons to whom it is addressed and is not intended to be relied upon by any person without subsequent written confirmation of its contents. Accordingly, Coopers & Lybrand disclaim all responsibility and accept no liability (including in negligence) for the consequences for any person acting, or refraining from acting, on such information prior to the receipt by those persons of subsequent written confirmation. If you have received this E-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone. Please also destroy and delete the message from your computer. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this E-mail message is strictly prohibited. ****************************************