Chris has posted the news that the Uni Games will be held on the Gold Coast, every second year between now and 2015. That's 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015! The other years it will continue to rotate around the nation.
This is extremely exciting news for Brisbane and Queensland Ultimate.
And of course, extremely exciting for the local Universities and something for them to really plan for as well as they can. UQ for example now has a greater chance of becoming THE powerhouse for University Ultimate in Australia.
I've been ruminating for some time that the Gold Coast remains Queensland Ultimate's unknown frontier, but haven't got a decent post together yet. And a few people at the QUDA Meeting last weekend heard me propose that Queensland look at making an arrangement with AFDA regarding Beach Nationals. I'll have to post that soon too.
But anyways - very exciting.
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Mixed Nats. Gold Coast. You know it make sense.
Dan and I were discussing after AUG that if we were to go the UPA way and have a set Nationals location for a few years, Southport School would be fantastic. Great fields, centrally located in Surfers and plenty of tourism infrastructure (ie: airport, accommodation).
I find it hard to believe that anyone from Queensland will complain about that.
Do it.
It would be very hard to get the fields for hire during the school term, you'd have to organise it so it was in the school holidays, which will more than likely clash with AUGs or at least be very close to AUGs. And I wasn't the biggest fan of the whole Mixed Nats being the week after AUGs last year.
On the topic of Beach Nationals - I think the Gold Coast would be the perfect place to host the inaugural event. I really can't understand why us QLDers aren't playing more Beach Ultimate.
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