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From: "Nancy Stebbing" <nancy.stebbing@tesco.net>
To: "britdisc" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Subject: Mixed Nationals and European Clubs
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 13:40:56 +0100
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After some debate and 'opinion collection' it has become clear that results
from next weekend's Mixed Nationals Tournament need to be used as the
selection criteria for teams going to the European Club Championships next
June.

Reasons:

Europeans are taking place in June (not in August as with World tournaments)
and so a qualifying tournament in April would be unworkable, as teams will
need to have entered long before then.

Nationals is the obvious choice for selection of international slots.
Selection is done this way with the Open and Women's division.  Although
there are additional factors in selecting mixed teams (such as teams that
may split to play Open and Womens), Nationals remains the most fair way to
select teams for a CLUB championships.

Dont Panic:

We don't know how many slots will be available for Mixed.  Thanks to the
strong performance of the National Squad, we can expect to do well- but
there is no indication of how large the competition will be, and so how many
teams will be invited.

Qualification places that are not used by teams will be 'passed down' the
results table until a team takes them up.

IMPOrTANT-  Rosters ARE NOT FROZEN for Europeans (as far as BUF is
concerned).  If you started up a development team but want to play
internationally (and are good enough) you can go join a team that has
qualified.

MOST IMPORTANT-  Qualifying teams that elect to go to Europeans MUST send at
least seven of the players who played to get the qualification.  (This is
stated in the original Mixed Series description and rules.)  For example-
say team X qualifies, but all of team X's player elect to play Open and
Womens with other teams except for two players.  Those remianing two players
can not form a 'new' team under team X's name in order to go to Europeans.

I know this is late notice- but we only found out about European Clubs in
August.  I had no idea at the start of the Mixed Series that this would
become an issue.  Please accept my apologies for any problems caused.

Talk to me if you have any huge problems.

Nancy Stebbing
National Mixed Co-ordinator