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From: "Timothy Rogers" <trogers@srv1.mech.ed.ac.uk>
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Subject: Census!
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Hello all,
Ultimate is growing faster than ever before.
Ro-Sham-Bo has had approximately 100 new people turn up this year,
and between 50 and 60 have continued playing. If one was to
extrapolate these numbers over the established student clubs, and add
all the people from new University teams, British Ultimate could have
grown by between 500 and 1000 people in the last few months.
The Edinburgh Beginners tournament of 32 teams was hugely
oversubscribed. Assuming 6 beginners per side (v. conservative) that
would mean that there were at least 200 new players at this
tournament alone. Furthermore many of the clubs could have produced
at least one more team.
Bearing in mind this growth (which may not be linear!), I
think that British Ultimate needs to conduct a census for the
following reasons:
1) To accurately count the numbers playing ultimate in this country.
2) To see what groups of people are leaving ultimate.
3) To establish what teams are forming and breaking up, thereby
reducing the number of people left without a team.
4) Establish whether ultimate needs restructuring. Should
we set up leagues with divisions, then play tournaments along lines
of which league one is a part of? Do we class tournaments, as
serious, fun, improvers etc. How does womens only and coed fit in?
5) Evaluate what sort of BUF ultimate can afford to support.
Any thoughts?
Tim
RSB
Soup