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From: amtsjh@amsta.leeds.ac.uk (S J Hill)
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Just got back and read this week's happenings:

1. Teams pulling out of events late...

On key element to having Tour was to produce a setup
where we could force teams NOT to do this to the 
organiser.  And basically it works (for the Tour).
My hope was that this way of working would rub off 
on teams when they dealt with ANY TD.  Apparently
this is not yet the case - which is a shame.

The main difference is of course that the Tour events
are over-subscribed, whereas other tourneys are not.

I have the beginnings of a solution to this, and I'm 
looking forward to working it out with whoever
decides to come forward to get involved with the 
Director of Comp., Tour Director jobs for next year.

2. WORLD CUP/Exeter

We had a choice of w/es: the one we took, or one
week earlier.  If you check out the schedule of the 
World Cup you will see that a week earlier is QFs - 
(Fri, Sat, Sun)
when in my opinion England are still likely to be playing.
I reckoned (back in Feb.) that this was more likely to 
be a problem than a clash with the w/e of the 
Final.  At the time I understood one of the QFs to be 
taking place on Sat. afternoon.  (I haven't checked 
recently to find out if this is actually true.)

3. I can't come to Southampton - I hope you all have a
good time!  I particularly hope that Catch finally duff up Shotgun
and UTI - altho' if that were to happen the boys will rip the 
piss out of me for an eternity!  

cheers

Si