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Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 09:43:29 +0100
From: Toby Green <t.green@elsevier.co.uk>
To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk, kevinl@curved-logic.com
Subject: SW Regionals - Responding to Toby's criticisms -Reply
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Thanks to Kevin for his reply. I do hope my criticisms were read as a criticism
of his organisation - they were not meant to be so. He ran the tournament well.
Nor was I seeking to complain as an excuse for our losing to Headrush. We lost
because we didn't play better than Headrush.

My point is rather more fundamental. I think that the BUF should lay down
minimum standards for all matches in Nationals, starting from pitch size,
availablility of water etc, through to game length, time-outs, half-times etc. A
properly thought-through set of arrangements would then help TD's run the
tournament more evenly across the country. Something as fundamental as half-time
to negate the toss should not be a matter of debate in one part of the
tournament - it should be a standard.

Something for the Exec to chew on!

see you all next weekend
Toby

(ps - if you got something similar to the above a little earlier, forgive me. I
think something went horribly wrong with my first draft, and I think it got
deleted. But then again, maybe it didn't!)