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From: "J.Chewins" <bgy6jgc@SOUTH-02.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK>
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Subject: How many teams?
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I suppose that i had better get into this discussion seeing as i'm 
the TD for the Student Nationals.

 When i put my bid in last year i said that i would only want 16 
teams at the nationals. This is for several reasons, but mainly 
because of the fact that the fewer teams there are the longer the 
games will be and the sooner we can have one super large pitch to 
play on (no walls to crash into!!).
 At the moment if 16 teams come along the pool games will be 20 mins 
each and then the game times will get longer the further into the 
tourney we go. If there are 20 teams the game time will be less 
(obviously!).
  When i planned the tourney i again took into consideration that (as 
happened last year) some regions may be stronger than others. It will 
be down to Dave Barnard to sort out which regions are 
stronger than others.
  I always thought things would be easiest if the top 4 teams from 
each region qualified. If the people who have already had their 
regional qualifiers didn't know that it was only top 4 that qualified 
then i'm sorry but this was stated when the bid was made last year. 

Congratulations to the teams who have made it, official invites will 
be out once all of the regionals have been played.
Hopefully Jedi will (?) qualify for the nationals, although how they 
are going to do it still has to be sorted out. Does anyone know 
anymore about a time and place for the Northern Regionals? The sooner 
we know a date the better as transport needs to be booked from the 
union.

Cheers
              Chewy