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From: Chris Hughes <cjhughes@talk21.com>
To: BritDisc <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>, "'jbc102'" <jbc102@york.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Tour Dates
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 01:06:41 -0000
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The BUF tour (as developed by Si Hill) was introduced in an attempt to satisfy the desire for the top teams to compete at a high level without excluding the other thirty or so teams that play regular Ultimate in this country. It works differently from all other 'open' tournaments, where the top seed in each pool spend the majority of Saturday playing pointless games, in which other than possibly one, they know that they will comfortably beat the opposition, and vice versa for the bottom seeds.
In the Tour teams start in 'peer' pools, where teams compete against opposition of similar quality, split into groups of eight - two pools of four in each group, 1-8, 9-16, 17-24, etc. This presents some meaningful competition on Saturday for all teams. The theory being that by playing against opposition of similar quality, this will allow teams to improve through close competition, and also enjoy themselves more by removing the pointless games. Sunday allows the teams to either challenge the group above them, or defend against upcoming teams. The top four teams of each group then challenge the bottom four teams of the group above them, which allows improving teams to climb the rankings.
Who decides which group your team is placed in? That is decided by your finishing position from the event before, so you can progress over a period of time.
Last year, UTI won the Tour (and the Ben Rainbow trophy), by beating Catch 22 into second place in the last game of the last event of the series. They went on to win Nationals as well, but despite their apparent dominance, they were beaten into third place at the first event by being beaten in the semi's by Chevron Action Flash, who then lost to Catch 22 in the final of Tour 1. The Tour tests a teams' ability to compete at a high level and win over a period of time. But it also caters for the teams at the other end, who can enjoy themselves, by pitching them against like minded teams, who enjoy the less competitive side of ultimate. 42 teams entered the tour last year, including some school teams, so there is no reason why you can't join a team or enter one yourself. If you are on the BUF mailing list details will arrive on your doorstep soon.
Chris Hughes
Director of Competitions
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From: jbc102[SMTP:jbc102@york.ac.uk]
Sent: 23 February 2000 21:48
To: BritDisc
Subject: Re: Tour Dates
Can anyone send me more details as to how the "Tour" works. As I have
only recently started the Ultimate thing, I know nothing about them. Is
it something I could participate in, or just go along and watch some
great Ultimate being played?
Jaimie Cross
Yorkie Bar Kids
"HUGHES, Chris" wrote:
>
> All,
>
> You may have noticed that the Tour Dates are now on the BUF Diary. These are
> not as originally planned, for which I duly apologise, however, we were
> hampered by lack of bids, and unavailability of venues. These are the
> finalised venues, and the Tour invites will be going out to teams very soon.
>
> Tour 1 - April 29/30 (Bank Holiday w/e - sorry) Swindon; Layout Dreams
> Tour 2 - May 20/21 - Towcester; Nancy Stebbing
> Tour 3 - June 24/25 - Southampton; Skunks
> Tour 4 - July 15/16 - Birmingham Layout Dreams & Slipdisc
>
> You will note that there is no split venue, against the decision at the AGM.
> Again due to lack of dates / venues / TD's and the perceived planning
> problems of a North / South split, after discussions both the U8C, and the
> BUF committee agreed to remove the split tour, and retable the possibility
> with considerations to the tour at next years agm, if it was felt to be
> still viable.
>
> Please don't contact individual TD's, or attempt to send deposits to Dora,
> until you have received instruction packs.
>
> Chris