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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 14:26:52 -0500
From: Ian Peter Stebbing <106040.3441@compuserve.com>
Subject: Aftermath etc. reply to Paul Meaney
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Sorry to make this public rather than private Paul but you do appear to
have missed the point slightly yourself.

1) I agree that spirit is very important and I wished people realised that
the top teams take it just as seriously as everyone else. The job was
delegated to Simon who did go and ask a number of people. The ask every
team for one vote is not after all the only viable method of selection for
SOTG but what happened was not ideal either. Your suggesttion of phoning
people up etc. for best practise at tournaments is useful and perhaps some
of those you mentioned could be instrumental in at least producing a
checklist of items necessary for a tournament.

2) To play 3 or even 4 games to 21, 2 1/2 hour time slots for 3 days in a
row is not unusual in well organised established US tournaments! Team
rosters are expected to be of sufficient size to cope with this. If you
don't believe me ask some of the Druids who went to Fools tournament last
April. It was quite a shock and we were dead at the end of the last day but
we were the only team there not prepared for it. I played again this year
at that tournament for an American team who 'whinged' when they had to sit
out 1 time slot on day 2 and therefore had to wait about 3 hours to play
their third and final game of the day. That is far from the only tournament
with that structure, it is just we are completely unused to it over here
but if we are going to progress to competitive proper length games at
tournaments then it is the shape of things to come. In its own way such a
move will have more effect on the structure of teams and Ultimate in this
country because it will force us into having larger squads which are far
more difficult to maintain on a non-geo basis.

Ian Stebbing
Fluid Druids