From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Thu Oct 8 16:32:12 1998 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id QAA05055 for britdisc-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:13:04 +0100 (BST) Received: from web02.iname.net (web02.iname.net [165.251.4.12]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA05008 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 16:12:59 +0100 (BST) From: space.cadet@inorbit.com Received: (from root@localhost) by web02.iname.net (8.8.8/8.8.0) id LAA25368; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:12:45 -0400 (EDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <981008111245AL.12570@web02> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 11:12:45 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: Text/Plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Subject: Ah, shaddap you bleaters! Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Optimal league size = 16 teams. Shut it! If sufficient teams enter the tour, a secondary league will be in order. This is not likely to be the case until the millenium at least. Meanwhile, women's participation is growing, without being catered for in open tournaments( it isn't growing fast enough to sustain competitive teams in open tournaments, nor quite yet to extend to satifactory women-only events ). They need more opportunities to play mixed/female opposition. Additional tournaments with compulsory mixed squads ( say 4-5 women per team )would remedy this and address the issue of lack of events in the season for less go-for-the-throat, more keep-up-the-spirit type teams. As someone already pointed out, there are going to be more new student teams than ever this year - many consisting almost entirely of freshers, new to the sport( and to life, young pups ) - who want to enjoy the "Ultimate Experience" ( are you experienced? ), not have their noses rubbed in it by this year's fleetingly supreme ( and invariably unfriendly & stuck-up - no names ) champions. C'mon BritDiskers, the weather alone makes the love of Ultimate a forbidding excercise, let's not bog it down with even more of our own personal baggage. The opinions expressed in this transmission were bought off-the-shelf near where you live. --------------------------------------------------- Get free personalized email at http://www.iname.com