From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Sun Nov 29 13:58:48 1998 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA19406 for britdisc-outgoing; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:45:48 GMT Received: from stork.cf.ac.uk (stork.cf.ac.uk [131.251.0.209]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA19397 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:45:45 GMT Received: from MAINCF3M.CF.AC.UK (actually host testcf1s.cf.ac.uk) by stork.cf.ac.uk with SMTP-LOC (PP); Sun, 29 Nov 1998 13:45:12 +0000 Received: from MAINCF3M/SpoolDir by MAINCF3M.CF.AC.UK (Mercury 1.43); 29 Nov 98 13:45:12 GMT0BST Received: from SpoolDir by MAINCF3M (Mercury 1.43); 29 Nov 98 13:05:55 GMT0BST Received: from SpoolDir by MAINCF3M (Mercury 1.43); 29 Nov 98 05:53:17 GMT0BST Received: from SpoolDir by MAINCF3M (Mercury 1.43); 27 Nov 98 13:54:54 GMT0BST Received: from SpoolDir by HUMSCF2S (Mercury 1.43); 19 Nov 98 16:45:34 GMT0BST From: "DAVID BARNARD" <SHA7DWB@forest.cf.ac.uk> To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 16:45:25 GMT0BST Subject: Student elligability X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.54) Message-ID: <5E0FDCB3190@HUMSCF2S.CF.AC.UK> Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Students, I would like to take this opportunity to appologise in advance for my bad spelling, I can't help it so no comments. Right, I have had a lot of people asking me if they are elligable to play at student tournaments this year. Basically the obvious non-elligable people are University Staff and people in a gap year. The slightly more complicated issue is that of post grad and part time students. This relies (as does the rest of the elligability rules) on your honesty and spirit to abide by the rules. The rule for part time students from the official BUF student elligability rules is: "Part time students must be able to demonstrate that their student status is their primary occupation." Therefore people who are in jobs that allow that person to go on day release or something of that sort are not elligable to play. Being a student must me the main thing that you do, not a job. This applies to people doing post grad couses as well. If their main occupation is being a student then they are elligable to play.. The rules also say "If you are in doubt about a players elligability then the student co-ordinator (ME) should be contacted to confirm the players status but no exceptions can be made - IGNORANCE IS NOT AN EXCUSE" So get in contact with me is you have any doubt, follow Sonics (for those who don't know him - a postgrad from southampton uni) example and ring me and ask - 01222 373095 Finally the rules state: "Any team fielding a non - elligable player faces disqualification from that and next years competition." Those are the official rules so be it on your head, I hope that people will not now field unelligable players as doind so is against the much recently debated SPIRIT OF THE GAME which student teams are suppost to have LOADS of. I hope I have cleared up any problems or questions and helped make this years student tournaments a purley student event. Dave Barnard (22) - student co-ordinator