From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Fri Oct 25 20:13:56 1996 Received: from thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk by clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id UAA25633; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 20:12:47 +0100 (BST) Received: by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk id UAA05316; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 20:03:37 +0100 (BST) Received: from violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id UAA05278; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 20:02:05 +0100 (BST) Received: from vulcan by violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id RAA08423; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 17:10:31 +0100 (BST) Received: from rose.le.ac.uk by vulcan with SMTP (PP); Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:27:24 +0100 Received: from ROSE/SpoolDir by rose.le.ac.uk (Mercury 1.21); 25 Oct 96 16:27:26 +0100 (BST) Received: from SpoolDir by ROSE (Mercury 1.30); 25 Oct 96 16:27:09 +0100 (BST) From: "R.A. Kingsley" <rak4@leicester.ac.uk> To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 16:26:59 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: Into the fray... Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.40) Message-ID: <2F4E8452A07@rose.le.ac.uk> Sender: owner-britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Status: RO David Silbey wrote; > My suggestion (there had to be one, didn't there?) is a mix of high-level > and open tourneys: some tourneys at which top teams play each other only, > and some tourneys where the format is as now, with everybody playing > everybody. To prevent top teams from skipping the opens, have a certain > minimum number of tournaments required to be eligible for Nationals. I think this is a good idea. As far as I know there is no stipulation that all tournaments have to be open to all teams. Surely if certain teams feel they want this type of elite teams tournament then they are free to organise an invitational tourny just as begginners only tournaments are organised. Rob Kingsley.