I've just been spending some time on my own wandering the vast marble-clad space of the war room that's in the AFDA wing of stately BUB manor, and had a bit of a crazy idea that I'd like to share.
Mixed Nats is really popular and a great tournament and more and more people want to go, but its also a lot of work and maybe its getting harder from year to year for people to run it. So at the moment its capped at 24 teams, and we're moving to having to have teams qualify and all that. But its a bit of a bugger if you miss out, particularly if you're from an area where there isn't a mass of higher-end Ultimate going on.
So I wonder if one day we'll split the event into two. AMUC continues on but gets shrunk a bit (down to maybe 20 or even 16 teams). Teams still have to qualify for it and its about elite play.
But maybe the weekend before AMUC, there's the AMUP - the Australian Mixed Ultimate Plate (or Mixed Salad Bowl maybe), which is initially open to any team that doesn't qualify for AMUC. The Plate would be a tournament that is bidded for and rotated around the country to be in a region where the AMUC isn't (so if AMUC is in Brisbane this year, AMUP might be in Ballarat).
I think AMUP might still be a good quality tournament for people who are looking for that but miss out on the elite end. AMUP would also make the zone qualifiers less of an end of the season for those teams that don't qualify for AMUC. And AMUP organisers and players would nonetheless aim to have a better run tournament, a more awesome party, etc etc than AMUC itself! ;)
And having both tournaments being smaller may make them more appealing for people to want to host them?
Anyway, just today's crazy idea to put out there. Put it on the to do list for someone sometime in the future.
3 comments:
Another mixed tournie for the rejects. this just smells of a second tier Mixed nats. While it is great for teams to continue their seasons with some aim it may cheapen the idea of mixed nats, just slightly. I think this would be a long time in developement anyway as there are just enough people willing to pay for the trips to whereever to play. just my thoughts, but at least someone is thinking outside the box keep it up JDR
Naaaaah...Country Nats is going to become more sought after than Mixed Nats, and people will actually move out of capital cities just so they can play it.
That's the plan, anyway.
wow that is crazy! but seeing as I'll be living in central queensland in a few years (probs) It'd be cool to have something more small community oriented. I still think that two tourneys would be more effort than one.
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