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From: Will Parker <wp296@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
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Subject: Tour 99
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I have been reading this Tour 99 thing with a lot of interest as a TD and
as captain of a lower division team (Skunks).

I think that the idea of splitting the tour up is a good one. Someone made
the point that nothing gives a lower team more of a boost than scoring a
couple of points against a higher team. Well, if by a lower team you mean
someone placed around 15th, then nothing would give a bigger boost than to
be promoted up to the next division. And for a 25th placed team I still
think the boost that our second team would get scoring against our first
would be just as much as scoring against Druids (sure they're not a higher
team but hey).

If as Chris Hughes is saying, we need venues with ten pitches (something
we will find more difficult at Southampton) then go ahead and split the
tour up. In the long run we always ended up playing the same old teams at
all the tours we went to expect maybe the first game on Saturday when
everyone plays like crap as you try and get back into competetive
ultimate, and so I don't expect it would be that different if the tour was
split.

In the future, the tour will definately be too big not to be split. The
way I see it it is that the tour is to make Ultimate better, so playing
teams in divisions will help. There will always be other tournaments
where you can get to play other teams that you don't get to normally.

Dora was right in saying the tour worked really well last year, but
judging by the amount of freshers we have got interested, I think Ultimate
is set to grow and grow faster and faster and we need to work around this

There, done for now

Will
Skunks