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From: mackay@mrao.cam.ac.uk (David J.C. MacKay)
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Subject: alternative to white lines at tournaments
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Hi all,
	have you ever organised a tournament and had difficulty
getting white lines done? (eg if the grass is long or covered with
dry hay)
	At CAM98 Miles invented an alternative which I have documented
here:
http://wol.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk/ultimate/pics/cam98/

(This page also includes a few pictures of teams at the CAM 98 tournament)

Plastic Safety Tape (400m costs about 7 pounds), Plastic loops, and 3
inch nails (every ten yards or so). We used a hammer to get the nails
really low in the ground so that a layout would not touch the
metal. It worked pretty well.  You have to pull the tape really tight,
especially if it is windy, and tie it down lots in the front of
endzone. It took us about half an hour for two people to make one
field's lines.

With the spare tape you have just the right amount to make a DDC pitch.

David