From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Tue Jan 11 11:03:27 2000 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id LAA05679 for britdisc-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:00:33 GMT Received: from snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (snowdrop [137.205.192.31]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA05594 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:00:16 GMT Received: from nuclear.bomb.co.uk (IDENT:root@nuclear.bomb.co.uk [198.80.124.122]) by snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA03971 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:00:15 GMT Received: from barry ([198.80.124.168]) by nuclear.bomb.co.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id LAA24554 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 11:00:09 GMT Message-Id: <200001111100.LAA24554@nuclear.bomb.co.uk> X-Sender: barry@mail.endzone.co.uk X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0 Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 10:38:38 +0000 To: <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> From: "Barry O'Kane" <barry@endzone.co.uk> Subject: RE: Goaltimate In-Reply-To: <219065FBE138D211A37400805FB7578A02100308@exlon05.lonserv1. lehman.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Ahh yes - and all the money came from the sale ESPN? Someone told me the last one didn't work out so well - but they are doing it again? And there is another question. Who sold it and how? Why can't Ultimate (WUCC, WUGC, UPA nats - whatever) be sold in the same way? I realise that there have been debates about this on rsd - can anyone fill us in? Barry At 10:43 11/01/00 +0000, you wrote: >Very simple really......They pay people! > >I know for the San Diego tournament last year the organisers paid for all >competitors to fly to San Diego, hotels, food, beer, and $20,000 in prize >money. They then sold the footage of the tournament to ESPN. All the >players invited are well known Ultimate players. >