From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Mon Feb 26 12:44:40 2001 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) id f1QCesN00255 for britdisc-outgoing; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:40:54 GMT Received: from snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@snowdrop [137.205.192.31]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f1QCeoh00212 for <britdisc-real@pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:40:50 GMT Received: from gcexchange.grantham.ac.uk ([194.83.4.254]) by snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f1QCedY29200 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:40:44 GMT Message-Id: <200102261240.f1QCedY29200@snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk> From: "Paul Unwin (GC_11_PO)" <punwin@grantham.ac.uk> To: britdisc <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Bringing the Game into Disrepute Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 12:40:00 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk id f1QCeoh00218 Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Two teams from Grantham College competed with open and student teams this weekend in Nottingham. My junior team were energised by their first tournament, for which they were hosts in January and were excited to enter more tournaments. Nottingham offered an ideal opportunity close to home. A great time was had by all my students. During the closing ceremony though, I could not find a Hole big enough to hide in. I find it difficult to comprehend how the organisers saw fit to award Red Eye Bongs from Amsterdam as prizes. This is the first time I have encountered the legitimisation of drug taking in Ultimate. To make it worse the awards ceremony was in full view of parents and sponsors of my team and was videoed by Block Stack and Two Smoking Hammers. A Spliff holder was also given as a gift to my junior team during an post game huddle. Some of us are putting big efforts in getting growth, TV coverage, publicity, and legitimacy for our sport. We shall never get any of this as long as this sort of thing happens. Whether you are pro or anti Cannabis use, I am sure you will agree with me that such promotion of an ILLEGAL act so blatantly (and especially when targeted at Juniors) is very harmful for our sport. I charge the organisers of this weekend's tournament in nottingham with BRINGING THE GAME INTO DISREPUTE, and I would like YOU the ultimate community to register your displeasure by replying to britdisc. As an aside. I would like to know what the video makers will be doing about releasing video of the awards ceremony (I think the BUF would also like to know). If the awards ceremony is to be featured on the video I'll HAVE MY £20 BACK Action please BUF. Stig Red 14 Masters2000 14 GB Junior Coach Coach to Horizontally Challenged and Aussie Kiss