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Mark wrote:

> 	What I object to when it comes down to it is the 
> short-sightedness of Ultim-8: fantastically good for today's top teams 
> but bugger all use to those which will replace them in five or ten 
> years time.

In some senses this is exactly what the tour is about!  Ultimate is
Britain in my view has been damaged in the last 10years (that I have been
playing) by the reliance of the student feed into ultimate.  Every year we
see the same situation with university old-boys&girls geographically
dispersed *stagnant* teams starting up which do absolutely nothing to
develop the growth of Ultimate.  These university leavers should be moving
into a club scene which is more dependent on where they live - clubs which
are more organised, professional and in a much better position to promote
and grow the sport.  If you are in an old-boys/girls team ask yourself how
many new (I mean new to ultimate) players you have recruited and
developed, how much publicity you are able to attract, even how often you
practice!?  (Red has around 15 new players this year, 10-20 paper
articles and 3 lots of TV coverage, 3 practices a week and is now backed
by Leicester City Council, Bass and are actually being approached by
sponsors)

The tour has actually done a lot to promote the more geo-centric approach.
The fact that we have had people writing about rostering, and how this has
made it hard to move between teams is proof of this.  We should all be
doing a lot to get are teams into a position where the requirement to 
enter 4 tour events really isn't a problem. 

However, the tour isn't the be all and end all, it just serves a
particular purpose (and one that is evolving as we learn).  We DO NEED
MORE TOURNAMENTS.  How many people have to say it!

Ultimate is the property of you the player/club as is the BUF.  If you sit
on your hands doing bog all then you must shoulder some to the blame.  The
BUF is doing all it can this year to promote extra tournaments including;

  - underwiriting/loaning clubs the capital required to set up tournaments
  - Insuring tournament organisers against liability
  - sending out the regional co-ordinators to harrass every single club
    to put on a tournament

There is even an officer whose job it is to help you out with advice and
information about running tournaments (Si Hill).

I think I'll stop here before I implode.

I bit of a digression, I know, but it is at the root of Marks gripes.

Scott
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