Southampton Penguins Unicyclists are hosting a tournament and freestyle workshops!
What?
We have one hall so can accommodate 8 hockey teams, we also have a smaller hall where Connie Cotter will be running freestyle workshops [schedule to follow]. We will also run kids hockey games in this hall if there are enough kids there.
As host team Southampton are looking to enter 2 teams themselves, so unless this is deemed unsuitable there will be 6 places available, please let us know your thoughts.
Who?
Any UK teams welcome, on a first come first served basis, please email annaats (at) googlemail.com to reserve your place.
Anyone can come to take part in the freestyle workshops, all skills, all ages. Hockey players will also be able to take part when they are not playing matches. If you are inetersted in freestyle only, please email annaats (at) googlemail.com to let us know how many people to expect, if you also add what you’re inetersted in learning that will help with the schedule.
When?
Sunday 11th May 2008
12pm till 6pm
Where?
Cantell Maths and Computing College
Violet Road
Southampton
SO16 3GJ
How Much?
Hockey (includes freestyle workshops)
£6 per adult
£4 per child under 12 yrs old
Freestyle Only
£5 per adult
£4 per child under 12 yrs old
Payment to be made in cash on the day - but please don’t take this as an excuse not to turn up on the day, let us know if you cannot make it so that we can let another team come instead & please give as much warning as possible.
Food
There is nothing more than vending machines on site, however there is a garage down the road if you need re-fueling.
We will arrange a meal at a restaurant/pizza place or similar a short distance away.
Any questions post here or email annaats (at) googlemail.com
Well, if teams are allowed to run 2 league tournaments within the same year, then yes, and if they are not supposed to, then no I guess. Does anyone know the rules of this? I couldn’t find anything about it.
This is true but there has been some talk of relaxing it a little (max 2 maybe?) as it has been difficult for some teams to set up a tournament in this first league year and this “BUC to BUC year” is longer than was expected when that was decided. I would say that a team that hadn’t hosted a tournament should get first choice over a date though if there was a conflict.
Regarding more than one local team in a tournament here are my thoughts on the matter: If there were more than 1 local team that wanted to enter (in this case Southampton) and it was to be a league tournament all the other places should be filled with non-local teams first then if there are places left they could be filled with another local team or/and scratch team. If then someone organised a tournament and entered more than one local team at the expense of non-local teams this wouldn’t really be fair if it was a league tournament so shouldn’t be counted as one.
It’d be nice to see what others think about these issues and to come to some fair consensus about them to put forward.
CAn S’ton enter one team as a league team and one as non league?
Technically Calstcok were non league at teh JAn SWUM tourny as they included a SWUM player and don’t expect to make other tournaments.
S’ton last hosted a tourny in Oct 2007, this is 2008… also the 2006/07 league year ran to april IIRC so if the same were true this year May would be a new year.
Not that it matters much i thought that the rules say the year runs BUC to BUC which this year is going to be a little on the strange side as we have a “long” year.
Strictly speaking the rules say only one league tournament per team per year. The reason for this is to try and spread the tournaments around the country to avoid favouring a particular team or teams (as happened in the old league where most of the tournaments took place in or around London).
If the consensus is that having 2 league tournaments per team per year is OK (particularly as this is a very long year ) then I see no problem.
Please have a look at http://unicycle.org.uk/hockey.html and read the rules at the bottom of the page. I plan to have a proper discussion of the rules at BUC to get to a set that everyone is happy with for next season.
Thanks for the responses, it would be good to have it as a league tournament. Just a thought, rather than each team being able to host one league tournament a year, perhaps we could divide up the UK into areas, such as ‘South’ ‘South West’ ‘South East’ etc and have each area able to host 2 tournaments a year, as I dont think that many teams overlap and that way if every area can host something then it will be nicely spread out across the country?
Back to topic now…
Teams Registered:
Soton Penguins A
Lunis
EMUs
SWUM
Stockton
Soton Penguins B (non league)
If we don’t get enough full teams registered we will consider scratch teams or B teams, and don’t feel you need to limit the number of people you bring for your team as there will be a spare hall and freestyle workshops to keep everyone occupied.
thats looking pretty bladdy high standard, jesus fancy holding a B tournament aswell ha ha come on hackney get the youngsters along they enjoyed it last time, maybe try and get in touch with Hackney because im not sure there on this forum
Does anyone know how to contact hackney or horsham? they might be interested but if they don’t know it’s on then it’s a bit unfair! if youve got contact details for them please either let them know, or email their details to me, add above.
) then I see no problem.