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From: "Jon Good" <funky_like_a_train@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: shaftin' and other difficulties
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>>        (4) It means that people coming through don't get to see top 
>> >>flight ultimate. Which is not good as it means people don;t come away 
>> >>from tournaments having had the ability to watch top teams play and 
>> >>learn from them, so the rate of learning slows.

>Yeah, and my propositions above lessen the interaction between the 'top
>flight' teams and the others.  I'm not so keen on that.

As a simple solution: you could start each league event with a giant 
crossover (top of div 1 plays bottom of div 2, 2nd in div 1 plays 
penultimate in div 2, etc.) This may be tedious for the top teams but it's 
only 1 game. Apart from giving less experience teams/players a chance to 
play more experienced people, it also gives scope for a lower seeded team to 
play a whole event in the top division if they play hard against a better 
team and win their cross over. If the 'better' teams are really better then 
the upset winners of the cross over should get relagated at the end of the 
same tournament, but have a wealth of experience they would otherwise have 
been deprived.

I'm not saying this is what should be, but it's one solution.

Jon Good - BAF, Flatball, MBB


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