From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Thu Mar 20 16:49:55 1997 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk id QAA28300; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 16:16:03 GMT Received: from renko.ucs.ed.ac.uk by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk with SMTP id QAA28295; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 16:15:59 GMT Received: from arran.sms.ed.ac.uk (arran.sms.ed.ac.uk [129.215.141.2]) by renko.ucs.ed.ac.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id QAA28070 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 20 Mar 1997 16:15:58 GMT Received: from SMS-ARRAN/SpoolDir by arran.sms.ed.ac.uk (Mercury 1.21); 20 Mar 97 16:13:55 +0000 Received: from SpoolDir by SMS-ARRAN (Mercury 1.21); 20 Mar 97 16:13:46 +0000 From: "James McDonald" <9361247@arran.sms.ed.ac.uk> Organization: Student Mail Service To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 16:13:37 +0000 Subject: Student league X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <9F808140796@arran.sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: owner-britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk I've got to agree with David's thoughts. Whilst the idea of a league, which would put us on a par with other uni sports, is attractive, there are certain problems which must be addressed. Speaking from a Sneeeky's perspective, the distances involved in travelling for an afternoon's ultimate, in Scotland at least, are a lot greater, which could pose both money and time problems for students. Possibly this could be remedied by a series of 1day mini-tournaments during weekends, at which all the teams taking part in the region are present. This has been done by Sneeeky's informally for a couple of years now, and has been relatively successful. The added bonus of having small localised tournaments, is that beginners who might not relish the idea of being cramped in a mini-bus for 9 hours, get to play in a friendly, competitive environment, which isn't too menacing and is fairly close to home. Awaiting further comments, Jim Sneeeky's Jim McDonald (j.c.mcdonald@sms.ed.ac.uk) "Time's fun when you're having flies" -Kermit-