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I have to disagree with this, I think to do away with this would 
penalise people due to other people's lack of commitment or through 
too many injuries preventing fielding of teams at tournaments.  My 
team - and I suspect a number of others - have a small player base, 
we wanted to get to as many tour tournaments as possible this year 
but circumstance meant we had a lot of injuries and a number of 
people who had to focus on submitting work and this prevented us from 
being able to field a squad in the latter half of the season. The 
guest rule allowed those who wanted to play to continue to do so.  I 
am aware of a number of players this affected including myself and I 
feel that the chance to play in the extra tounaments, particularly 
as I am in my first year of play helped to improve my game.  Removal 
of the rule would act only  to restrict the amount the numbers of 
people who can play competitive ultimate, when I thought the idea was 
to be trying to maximise the figure.

Peter Connor
(Mad Kows)

> Chris,
>       one improvement that should be made is tighter constraints on team
> rosters: if you play for one team, then you play for that team. The
> 'guests' should not have played for another team already. I know that this
> is hard on players who's teams can't make a tournament. But say, for some
> unthinkable reason, a top 8 team can't make one tournament, one of their
> players on a lower team can really make a difference. It happened last
> tour with 'sharks' only playing 1/2 tournaments and players also playing
> for another team. This would also make teams that bit more commited to
> turning up and organising themselves. 
> 
> Then again this is only me so you can all tell me to fuck off if you want!
> 
> Jon Good