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Season 9 UK Team Championship
fandango:
--- Quote from: sharplea on April 26, 2015, 10:20:27 AM ---
The problem APAT will have if reducing to 6 players per team will be that even more teams will apply. This event is the one APAT event that could theoretically get >300 runners easily (apart from the Worlds obv) and as such, should be held in a venue that can hold that capacity.
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Perhaps both my suggestions then.. Reduce teams to 6 and hold it in a venue that can hold 300 runners 50 teams of 6..
Chipaccrual:
You"ve got to be really careful in reducing the size of the teams, as it potentially could result in the individual winner of the event effectively winning it for their team.
Ideally, I"d like to see teams back at 10 people, with everyone getting a team in. Makes the winning team needing to get 2/3 of their team deep in the event to win it.
Fatcatstu:
I dont like the idea of this really.
I can see WHY you might do it, but the whole idea of the team event is to play it as a TEAM, and splitting the teams up just wont be the same IMO.
3N1GM4:
Agree with the majority sentiment that splitting teams to play over multiple days goes against what most people feel this even should be about, so definitely wouldn"t want to see that.
If sufficient capacity cannot be found to host all/most of the teams who want to enter, what about teams having to qualify online in some way? I know this means that some teams would still be excluded from the live event (as they are now), but at least every single team which wanted to enter would have a shot. How you wanted to structure this could vary, either straight satellites yielding the required number of team spots, or some format (league or otherwise) whereby stacks can be carried through, or even redistributed amongst team members to some limited extent (maybe averaged?), you get the idea.
Alternatively, rather than splitting teams across two Day 1"s, what about splitting the field, but keeping teams together? I know this could obviously create some "unfairness" if many of the perceived tougher teams are in one day, but if it"s a random draw, then it is what it is... Would allow capacity to be significantly increased and also keep all team members playing in the same Day 1...
Just my thoughts anyway, whatever happens I know I"d personally be gutted if I wasn"t able to compete in this event, outside of the Worlds, it"s the one APAT I would never want to miss, so I understand wanting to give as many people the opportunity as possible.
koyte:
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