With the location confirmed and single-gender nationals well and truly out of the way, frisbee minds around Australia are slowly but inexorably turning to the next phase of ultimate for the year, the Mixed Season. Brisbane will host the tournament this year on the 19th and 20th of October. Last year the tournament was heavily oversubscribed and, in preparation for such enthusiasm this year the AFDA is already urging local frisbee organisations to start thinking about regional qualifying tournaments.
Canberra was allocated three spots last year and will presumably get that number again this year. It's unclear how many teams will be interested locally but this is definitely a great first tournament for league players who want to get more involved. As the ACT's movers and shakers get talking the details of what kind of teams we send this year will begin to emerge, but it would be great to see if we can get enough teams to run a small qualifying tourney. At the very least we should be looking to get a bunch of new players to mixed nats as it's a great blend of competitive ultimate and varied skill levels, with good close games guaranteed for teams of almost any ability. If you're out there and you want to see what tournament ultimate is all about, get a bunch of cronies together and start talking mixed nats, the earlier you get moving the more likely you are to snaffle a precious precious slot.
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Funny, I've been working on revising the AFDA AMUC policy all night (the 2007 policy was a one off - we're trying to do the permanent policy now). And so to unwind I thought I'd scan the blogs (what a tragic I am).
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I was going to comment that a further option is to merge with another zone (like NSW) and have a joint (although the qualifications and rankings would be separate).
But on the other hand, a big idea would be for ACT to have its qualifying tournament early and invite interstate teams to come as non-qualifying guests (as warmup for their own qualifiers), and then some ACT teams could even go to someone else's qualifier as a non-qualifying guest, and get some more tuning-up.
We were going to do that last year, but then we only ended up getting three teams and no qualifier was necessary. Two ACT teams did play in the NSW qualifiers just to get some game time in. I'm not sure how the AFDA wants to run seedings, but having a few crossover games between different qualifying regions is handy to gauge the relative strengths of regions.
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