From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Mon Sep 28 13:56:32 1998 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id NAA16884 for britdisc-outgoing; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:35:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from exchpk02.chelt.ac.uk (exchpk02.chelt.ac.uk [194.66.194.6]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA16876 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:35:05 +0100 (BST) Received: by exchpk02.chelt.ac.uk with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) id <SDTFJXF2>; Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:35:18 +0100 Message-ID: <8102C4585310D211858D0060B01A41330A38D2@exchpk02.chelt.ac.uk> From: "HUGHES, Chris" <CHughes@chelt.ac.uk> To: "'Britdisc'" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Director of Competions Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1998 13:35:11 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2232.9) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Hello people, Chris Hughes; your new DoC here; with just a couple of things to say / ask. Thanks to Si Hill for putting in all the work to get the tour up and running, and almost single handedly improving the standard of British Ultimate over the last couple of years (Congrats. for also helping Catch win Nationals). Si is still going to deal with any issues hanging on from the past year that need sorting and is still going to be assisting myself and Norm (aka Andy Tucker from UTI as Tour Director) with next year. But part of the deal is that he didn't want to get all the hassle at tournaments and at work, so stop hassling him - he's done his time - hassle me instead. Ok on to next year, both indoors and outdoors; First off - now that the tour / Nationals is over I need opinions from people and (serious) suggestions on how it can be improved. All sensible ideas will be listened to - although I can't guarantee that they will all be taken up. I don't want to hear from just the teams that went to Nationals; I want suggestions from any one involved in the series, on aspects of rostering / guests, tournament requirements, A and B tours, seeding, and any aspect that you might think needs improving or changing. Indoors; I need TD's interested in organising Regionals during early March / late February and Nationals in mid March. Don't worry about the logistics or your location at this stage - just mail me if you fancy hosting a tournament; we may not be simply limited to the basic 5 regions - we may move to a basic qualifying tournament structure. This needs to be done as soon as possible so that the rest of the season can be planned around it. Tour TD's; We need at least five proposals from TD's for the tour events next year. Venues are now expected to be better, which can only be sorted if we start now. I am particularly interested in getting a wider geographical spread of venues - with at least one event up north. Any interested teams or individuals can contact me for more information. Expect tour events to fit between late march / early April and run up to July. I am hoping to get this sorted well before Christmas so start thinking and planning your bids NOW. I suggest that you are flexible with dates at this stage. I also want to know from present Tour TD's whether they are interested in hosting an event next year. Similarly I need bids for National Outdoors, 99. This will take place at end of September as this year. We will be wanting a venue with at least 8 pitches, and preferably more to accommodate more than just the top 16 teams. To all other TD's, if you are planning something that may conflict with these events please let me know as soon as possible so that we can avoid clashes. Finally Si Weeks / Dave Barnard I need your contact info so that we sort the student events into this timetable as well. Thanks, and I hope to hear your comments soon Chris NEW ADDRESS 81 Bittern Avenue Abbeydale Gloucester Glos GL4 4WG Tel; 01452 380529 (h) 01242 543299 (w)