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There's some kind of wry, long-week Friday afternoon humour in here somewhere,

I hope...

"HUGHES; Chris" <CHughes@chelt.ac.uk>
> but any rules, or regulation that limits a players choice for who they
> can play for (in terms of location),

as opposed to another method? (from the sublime to the ridiclous)
        "you can only have X players over 6ft3ins"
        "you must have a player who *needs* a knee-brace"
        "no more than Y players who can throw the length of the pitch"
        "second middle initials must be A-J"
Maybe I've been a Druid too long :)

But it's OK to regulate based on age and/or sex?  Doesn't the Court of 
Human Rights (or whatever it's really called) regard this as 
"discrimination"?

Hmmm, this might be a bit too philosophical/moral/political/opinionated 
to be discussed on BritDisc, so I'd suggest we don't bother...

> or that penalises a non-geo team in competition is just going to cause
> resentment,

Does giving a geo-team an advantage equate to penalising a non-geo team?

Paraphrased from the Tour Rules: In the event of a geo and non-geo team 
being level on Ranking Points, the Geo team shall be ranked higher...

> and whilst handicapping a tournament for a one off might be a bit off
> a giggle, no-one wants to see it introduced for the major
> competitions.

After all, this is "Ultimate", with an identity of its own (not "Golf"). I 
wonder if the Sports Council would take it better/worse if handicaps were 
"standard"...

As Jeff Jackson mentioned in Exeter, in a brief but concentrated period of 
lucidity between Guinness and the Smarm-to-the-left/Insult-to-the-right Session

"Hedonism is the philosophy of Life"


Wayne Retter
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at home                 wayne@phidelta.demon.co.uk
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