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From: "Paolo A. Nistri" <GB-GAN@panduit.de>
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Subject: The Quest for the Holy Grail is no longer -Reply
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Commiserations together with a little hint:

                   GIVE UP SCHMINDOORS !!!!

>>> Sick Boy <k967338@kingston.ac.uk> 10/20/98 05:30pm >>>
Sadly, due to lack of interest and cheques coming in, this tournament 
is no longer happening on 24th/25th October. Huge apologies to those 
teams who comitted themselves and sent their cheques (none of which 
have been paid in yet). Could Skunks, Mr Men, and Wild Stallyns 
please contact me, as I have had to change e-mails, and have lost my 
old address book.

I'm quite honestly pissed off at the lack of interest in this 
tournament. Do people want to play tournaments? We as a team put in a 
lot of effort to organise our first ever tournament, and we thought 
it was going to be excellent. Despite clashing with HK7s, there's 
simply no reason for this event to have not been oversubscribed with 
teams. Maybe it was too early, maybe the clash was the reason. I 
don't know, but I'll think twice about organising a tourney with such 
enthusiasm in the future.

There are now over 50 teams? in the country. The tour is 
oversubscribed, and smaller tournaments like ours are the perfect 
places for those teams in the bottom divisions to get fun, and 
instructive competition. The smaller tournaments are what sold me on 
Ultimate in the first place, so why can't there be more like the 
great one run by Chaos, outdoors in the summer? Please note this is 
not an attack on the tour. I embrace the tour and what it's doing, 
and I don't see how it could have an effect on a small indoor 
tournament. So how about somebody tells me why tourneys like ours, 
and David McKays in Cambridge in the summer are being cancelled or 
downsized, or postponed.

We will most likely try to run something in the new year, and hope to 
get a better response then. Please let me know if you're interested.

Cheers
A sad Sick Boy


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Colin "Sick Boy" Smith
"K-Niggets" Ultimate Club
Kingston University
k967338@kingston.ac.uk
Tel: (0181) 942 8050