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From: "Dora A. Kemp" <dak12@cam.ac.uk>
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Subject: Re: Tournament Bids
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I strongly object to the Tour format changing. I think it worked really
well this past year and in the end no more than about 5 teams had to lose
out and that was partially because they couldn't get themselves organized.
I can think of 4 large venues that are ideal for the tour (Exeter,
Leicester, Southampton and Swindon) and a possible fifth could be
Manchester or Leeds. If it ever truly comes down to a lack of large venues
or huge numbers of teams wanting to enter a specific tournament then maybe
we should rethink the tour but at present I don't see us having that
problem. In fact, at Exeter which had the capability for a large
tournament, teams dropped out suggesting we do not have enough teams for a
split Tour. I also think it is a real handicap to the development of
Ultimate at this time as beginning teams will not see top-level play.

Dora

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