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From: "Christian Nistri" <wigsy22@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Confessions of a Tournament Director!!!!
Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 07:26:52 +0000
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Nancy, I can fully understand your grievances at the seeding for the last 
Tour but I do think it is important that we make sure that we keep to the 
truth.

>And although it really screwed my own team's chances.

What chances?????
Wigsy

"Less talk, more D"



>From: "Nancy Stebbing" <nancy.stebbing@tesco.net>
>To: "britdisc" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
>Subject: Re: Confessions of a Tournament Director!!!!
>Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 14:38:08 +0100
>
>I think what really rankles some folks is the APPEARANCE of you guys
>blatantly cheating.
>
>I know that as a TD and person in a BUF leadership position, I often have 
>to
>make decisions that are blatantly unfair to MY OWN TEAM to avoid the
>appearance of being partisan and of cheating.  I can name ten people off 
>the
>top of my head who have made decisions detrimental to their own teams in 
>the
>past year in order to be seen as being fair.
>
>That said, I find it hard to believe that you guys didn't look at your new
>pool and think 'Well, that might look a bit odd.'  Add to that the
>unfortunate coincidence of a problem with seedings at your most recent 
>co-ed
>tournament, which was clearly a simple misunderstanding and nothing
>malicious, and it just looks really bad.
>
>Compounding the problem is that different decisions would have given teams
>close to you in the points standings a d'mn good chance of making the
>semi's.  At the end of the day- that is what the row is about.  It LOOKS
>like you guys cheated your @sses off.
>
>And although it really screwed my own team's chances. I'm going to assume
>that you made your decisions as best you could at the time.  Maybe next
>time....  And  hopefully this will resolve itself quickly.  I know you
>worked really hard to get a Tour together, and that its a thankless job.
>
>Nancy Stebbing
>BUF Mixed Coordinator
>
>
>
>


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