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Subject: Re: mail from space cadet! - womens ultimate
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Additional tournaments with compulsory mixed squads will help womens
ultimate no more than it will help mens ultimate.
The womens game is different to the mens game and both are different
to the mixed game although being based on the same principles.
Both Twin Peaks and Bliss competed well in the tour last season due to
the way in which the competition was organised - enabling teams of
similar standards to play each other.
It doesn't matter whether they were male, female or mixed teams, we
had a lot of close games and both of the women's teams finished at
around 20th place in the tour.
Womens ultimate in the UK will only improve if womens teams continue
to develop and we continue to put in efforts to hold tournaments for
all female teams. That is not to say we cannot continue to compete
in the open tournaments - we're doing ok and just need more teams to
follow suit
- come on Women in Black, Organics, Mud Culture/Sneeekys/Sconz,
0181, any others . . .
Love 'n' layouts
Helen
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Subject: Ah, shaddap you bleaters!
Author: space.cadet@inorbit.com at DTT.UK.INTERNET
Date: 08/10/98 17:21
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 y
ou 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.
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