From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Thu May 16 10:51:31 2002 Received: from snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@snowdrop [137.205.192.31]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4G9pUI08930 for <suaaz@mail.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:51:30 +0100 (BST) Received: from agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@agave [137.205.192.52]) by snowdrop.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4G9gIt09452; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:42:18 +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 g4G9ZDQR001056 for <britdisc-outgoing@agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:35:13 +0100 (BST) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.12.0/8.12.0/Submit) id g4G9ZD6e001055 for britdisc-outgoing; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:35:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@daffodil [137.205.192.30]) by agave.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.12.0/8.12.0) with ESMTP id g4G9ZBQR001045 for <britdisc-real@majordomo.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:35:11 +0100 (BST) Received: from green.csi.cam.ac.uk (exim@green.csi.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.57]) by daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g4G9Z5Y22465 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:35:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from rhh20 (helo=localhost) by green.csi.cam.ac.uk with local-esmtp (Exim 4.04) id 178Hf5-0000bl-00; Thu, 16 May 2002 10:35:03 +0100 Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 10:35:03 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Hadfield <rhh20@hermes.cam.ac.uk> X-X-Sender: rhh20@green.csi.cam.ac.uk To: wayne@fluiddruids.com cc: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: Re: Tour 2 - late cancellation (fwd) In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.4.44.0205160957380.25535-100000@green.csi.cam.ac.uk> Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.44.0205161034050.1030-100000@green.csi.cam.ac.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk > Hi Wayne, > > As the person who organised Strange Blue's tour effort last year I believe > I can shed some light on the situation. > > As a geo-based team are heavily reliant on student players who > all have exams in two weeks, and coupled with injuries we find it hard to > put out a full team. > We played the same event last year with only 7 players on the first day > -for similar reasons - which lead to further injuries and alot of > discussion in our club about what to do if faced with the same situation > this year. > I believe that those in charge of the SB team this year have done their > very best to get a team together but are faced with a near-impossible situation. > AFTER DISCUSSION with the Tour organisers they have agreed to our withdrawl. > We are already being penalised insofar as we will lose our hard-won > seeding (15) and as a consequence most likely unable to qualify for > Nationals. We apologise for the inconvenience to the TD and other > participants if our absence leads to an odd number of teams. > I myself organised the Coed Tournament this time last year in Cambridge - > which turned out to be for 13 teams - but was a success nevertheless. > I sincerely hope we will be permitted to attend tour 3 and > 4 as these are the only serious tournaments many of our up-coming players > have the opportunity to attend. > > Thankyou for your support and understanding, > > Rob Hadfield > > Former President, SB (still injured!) > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 00:19:32 +0100 > From: Wayne Retter <druid#6@phidelta.demon.co.uk> > Reply-To: Wayne Retter <wayne@fluiddruids.com> > To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk > Subject: Re: Tour 2 - late cancellation > > > Ouch! > > No clever ideas from me, I'm afraid. > > I'm curious though... why are Strange Blue dropping out? > > I note (having checked out the Tour Rules) that their withdrawal from > Tour 2 could have serious repercussions on their attendance at the rest > of the Tour. > > Depending on whether their reasons are considered valid enough to not > Blacklist them, and how many teams can be accommodated by T3 and T4. > > Which leads me further... is there a u8c yet? > If so, is there any chance of a public announcement of who they are? > > Regards > Wayne > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Wayne Retter > mobile: 07970-903420 > w.retter@bigfoot.com > office: 01737-273655 > >