From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Sun Sep 17 23:35:53 2000 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) id e8HMXAx02237 for britdisc-outgoing; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:33:10 +0100 (BST) Received: from daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (root@daffodil [137.205.192.30]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8HMX7R02227 for <britdisc-real@pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:33:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail-gw1 (mailgate.webleicester.co.uk [195.146.160.12]) by daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.10.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e8HMWx814762; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:32:59 +0100 (BST) Received: from ben (dailup112.webleicester.co.uk [195.146.165.112]) by mail-gw1 (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA24882; Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:36:39 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <001d01c020f7$a06ec9c0$70a592c3@ben> From: "British Ultimate Federation" <buf@ultimateweb.co.uk> To: "BRITDISC" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: 2000 BUF AGM Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:33:20 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Dear all, The BUF AGM will be held at 8:30pm on Saturday 23rd September in the Old Library, Darwin College, Cambridge. An agenda plus details of the motions are attached below. We would encourage all teams to send a representative. To aid this, we will allow teams not playing at the National Finals to nominate a proxy to represent them provided they inform us in advance. The two main motions which are being tabled would introduce changes to the format of the Tour and Nationals. We would therefore urge all the teams taking part in the National Finals to send at least one representative (maximum is two). In light of the protracted debate which took place at last years AGM we will be running a tight schedule which must finish at 10pm as that is when our booking of the Old Library finishes. Darwin is on the South side of Silver Street, just east of Queens Road. If you wish to park nearby, try Silver Street; the nearest reliable parking place is a car park off Barton Road (5 minutes walk South of Darwin). Small scale map: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?P2M?P=CB39EU&Z=1 Large scale map: http://www.streetmap.co.uk/streetmap.dll?G2M?X=544551&Y=257932&A=Y&Z=3 Apologies to anyone who receives this email twice. Regards, Ben Ravilious Secretary British Ultimate Federation Phone 07092 175365 ================================================== AGENDA Apologies for Absence Minutes of the Last Meeting Officers Reports Election of Officers Motion: Modification of the Tour Motion: Change of Nationals Format Any Other Business Date of Next Meeting Toast to the Spirit of the Game ================================================== PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE BUF TOUR AND NATIONALS STRUCTURE Full details of the proposed changes can be found at http://www.ultimateweb.co.uk/buf/tour2001.htm Please read them! Below is a brief summary........... The Tour:- The proposal puts forward a split in the tour events to generate an A tour and B tour. After the 1st event (which will remain an open format) the tour will split with 12 teams in the A tour, and the rest in the B tour. There will be promotion and relegation of two teams after each event, from T2 onwards. The scoring system will progress from winners of the A event down through to the last placed team, as in the present system. The system does little more than emphasise a split already present in the tour structure, and remove the requirement of large venues. The A and B Tour may still occur in the same location when the facilities are suitable, but allows the ability to split the events should requirement dictate it. This will have very little effect on the majority of teams other than improve the standards of venue, and the quality of tournament at their level. Nationals:- The proposal puts Nationals as a cup type event with a 16 team knock-out, with seeding based on the tour. This will provide the test of teams to perform on the day, when required. It allows a more open format where seeding is not important allowing teams to recover from bad results in the tour. It covers the top 16 so that those teams involved in promotion & relegation are not disadvantaged. At this stage it does not significantly reduce the number of quality games for the top teams, but allows the weaker teams to improve knowing that they can get a similar improvement in results. The format also allows the event to held in smaller venues, and later in the season without light becoming an issue. This allows expansion of the season, with the possibility of holding more tour or mixed tour events, yet still having Nationals as the curtain call. Nationals would still be used as qualification for BUF invited events, but the BUF will reserve the right to invite teams who are deemed suitable if required.