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Subject: Re: The Mother of All Proposals


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Ali
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Date Posted: 13:54:11 05/19/03 Mon
In reply to: Paul 's message, "Re: The Mother of All Proposals" on 13:25:56 05/19/03 Mon
 >Unfortunately, these comments didn't make it through -
>in this board, anything in angle brackets is
>considered to be an html tag...

Arse!

>Could you remind us of the URL - it's buried in the
>archives somewhere...

MS WORD 2000:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/mrknobbly/proposal.doc

PDF:
http://members.lycos.co.uk/mrknobbly/proposal.pdf


>I'm slightly worried about the inflationary effect of
>this clause. In my view, the "odds and sods" should
>only include couples from universities that can't fill
>a complete team.

Why not include some more beginners? It's all discretionary, so Oxford can't enter all 30 million of their beginners, and it increases participation and enjoyment for these beginners. The circuit relies on getting beginners back for a second year, so surely getting as many of them involved as possible is a good thing? We can put in guidelines to the SC about capping it a 2 beg couples per uni - only a few unis are big enough to have leftovers anyway - or cap the odds uni at four full teams.

>"shall be" ..etc

Agreed, will amend.

>I prefer the following wording:
>
>2.8.6.2 Throughout the team match, each team shall be
>treated as if they were a single couple entering a
>four-dance event, and scrutineered accordingly: all
>couples are recalled together, and placings found in
>finals for the whole team. Couples within a team are
>not considered individually.

Agreed.

I have some nit-picking of my own:

2.8.4.3 Member societies shall pick their best possible A-team from the couples they have available...

amend to ... from their couples who will dance in the team match...

This means you aren't compelled to pick good people who have 'fallen out of favour'!
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Re: The Mother of All ProposalsTim13:59:08 05/19/03 Mon
    Re: The Mother of All ProposalsDi14:54:34 05/19/03 Mon

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