From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Thu Apr 22 23:36:06 1999 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA02510 for britdisc-outgoing; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:34:17 +0100 (BST) Received: from daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (daffodil [137.205.192.30]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA02500 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:34:15 +0100 (BST) Received: from tele-post-20.mail.demon.net (tele-post-20.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.20]) by daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id XAA12179 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:34:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from [158.152.203.174] (helo=[158.152.203.174]) by tele-post-20.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 10aS2t-000LBN-0K for britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:34:12 +0000 Subject: Re: WFDF site 2, knickers to ultimate Date: Thu, 22 Apr 99 23:34:51 +0100 x-sender: ultimatum@pop3.demon.co.uk x-mailer: Claris Emailer 2.0, March 15, 1997 From: Paul Hurt <paul@ultimatum.demon.co.uk> To: "BritDisc" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Message-Id: <E10aS2t-000LBN-0K@tele-post-20.mail.demon.net> Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk >I should have seen this coming. It wasn't the idea of many a person running >around in their pants that I liked, more the recognition for ultimate. The >BUF are proposing that players become members not teams, and part of this >involved having people employed by the BUF. Wouldn't sponsorship be a good >way of raising money to employ people and also for raising the level of >coverage of the sport, instead of making it a private affair. > >Matt Lowe Various individuals have gone seeking sponsorship before, with varying (generally low) degrees of success. Not thru lack of effort mind you. As Wayne rightly says, companies hope to get some kind of payback from their sponsorship endeavours, and as Ultimate stands at the moment, we have little to offer - we don't have crowds of spectators at our tournaments; we have no television audience; and we have a tiny player base compared to other sports. Rather than aggressively chasing sponsorship, I think it would be better to expend our limited energy and resources on building a solid foundation for the sport (which is what the BUF has been working towards for years). Ultimate then has a chance of developing into something more attractive to sponsors. That's my two cents, anyway. Paul --------------------------------- Paul Hurt Editor, Ultimatum paul@ultimatum.demon.co.uk http://www.ultimatum.demon.co.uk