From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Mon Oct 26 17:33:33 1998 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA17114 for britdisc-outgoing; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:16:40 GMT Received: from smtpmail.watsonwyatt.co.uk ([62.172.72.129]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA17099 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:16:38 GMT From: Wayne_Retter@watsonwyatt.co.uk Received: from ccMail by smtpmail.watsonwyatt.co.uk (IMA Internet Exchange 3.01 Enterprise) id 000216C7; Mon, 26 Oct 98 17:11:44 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 17:09:18 +0000 Message-ID: <000216C7.CE21337@watsonwyatt.co.uk> Subject: Re: Is Scotland a Country? (was Re: Scott's comment on wor To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: cc:Mail note part Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk My twopenneth... As I understand it, countries [e.g. Scotland] haven't (maybe that should be appended "... as yet"?) qualified for "allocations" in World CLUB competitions until they have sent a NATIONAL team [i.e. Scotland (even if it is a club team playing under that name - like the Americans do)] to a WUGC or EUGC event. It's also possible that the nation also requires an official "Federation" or governing body [i.e Scottish Ultimate Federation] of it's own to qualify for such "allocations". Hence, the assorted Scottish teams that currently exist have (up to now) been included in the British (NOT English!) allocation. Locks' ESSEX analogy was maybe a little too exagerated - maybe better (?) to imagine WUCC held in Hawaii (technically part of the USA) and the Hawaians not being being "allocated" spaces... The potential problem - as soon as Scotland forms the SUF and sends a team to E/WUGC (which will probably happen in a few years...) the GB squad should cease to exist and should be replaced by the 4 (or 5, depending on how many Irelands there are) individual National Teams... then players will be restricted into which squad they can play for at E/WUGC, and what happens if/when one of them cannot muster an entire team... Wayne Retter wayne_retter@watsonwyatt.co.uk