From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wed Apr 10 23:33:24 2002 Received: from daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@daffodil [137.205.192.30]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3AMXNd22039 for <suaaz@mail.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:33:23 +0100 (BST) Received: from agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@agave [137.205.192.52]) by daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3AMWZ711137; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:32:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk (daemon@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g3AMOxQR021880 for <britdisc-outgoing@agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:25:00 +0100 (BST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.12.0/8.12.0/Submit) id g3AMOxnA021879 for britdisc-outgoing; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:24:59 +0100 (BST) Received: from snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@snowdrop [137.205.192.31]) by agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g3AMOwQR021874 for <britdisc-real@majordomo.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:24:58 +0100 (BST) Received: from hotmail.com (f136.law8.hotmail.com [216.33.241.136]) by snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3AMOvt09613 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:24:57 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 15:24:51 -0700 Received: from 195.147.228.250 by lw8fd.law8.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Wed, 10 Apr 2002 22:24:51 GMT X-Originating-IP: [195.147.228.250] From: "ed shardlow" <edshardlow@hotmail.com> To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: splitting the tour Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 23:24:51 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: <F1363BPzAGcrUsAuwsd00007cb6@hotmail.com> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 10 Apr 2002 22:24:51.0556 (UTC) FILETIME=[88341240:01C1E0DE] Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Hello everyone, The suggestion that I can see least arguments against is splitting tour 1 regionally, presumably north/south. the benefits to this as I see them are: 1. The open format of tour 1 means it can be split 50:50 without worrying about how to decide on a seeding system; 2. Top 16 teams - hence "commited/organised" players would be playing in both, so someone would be able to run the thing; 3. Tour 1 is always the most heavily subscribed, so is in most need of splitting. the only potential problem is getting an even split in terms of both number and quality of teams so that they can be effectively seeded for subsequent tours. which could possibly be solved by making Clapham 1 play up north. _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx