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Jon

>       one improvement that should be made is tighter constraints on team
> rosters: if you play for one team, then you play for that team. The
> 'guests' should not have played for another team already. I know that this
> is hard on players who's teams can't make a tournament. But say, for some
> unthinkable reason, a top 8 team can't make one tournament, one of their
> players on a lower team can really make a difference. It happened last
> tour with 'sharks' only playing 1/2 tournaments and players also playing
> for another team. This would also make teams that bit more commited to
> turning up and organising themselves. 

In the first year of the Tour there was no guest rule.
It caused no end of difficulties.
Also - it made us (british ultimate players) appear
EXTREMELY unwelcoming to any foreign visitors
(several were turned away from touraments in that first
year.)

Whilst in theory what you suggest might be the ideal, I think
it is important to remember that we still play a sport with 
a very small player base.  This means that sometimes it is
worth adopting a 'common-sense' approach to some of these 
questions.

Since I will have a few days to spare coming up I will try to 
write a report about the tour over the last two years 
(plus Nationals) - and include some of the things that I 
think would be a good idea for the future based on what we
have learnt so far.

Si

- outgoing DoC
- extremely happy member of the 22
(not necessarily in that order)

ps - thanks to all those people who have been kind 
enough to send congrats messages directly to the team,
and via britdisc