Another suggestion has been that Australian Nationals (as an overseas,
but not an international tournament) not attract an official selection
response, and instead regions/teams are encouraged to send themselves.
See the archives of this list for more information on this suggestion.
With the possibility of the NZ Open being open/womens rather than mixed
the potential to send existing teams is increased.

I would like to see a decision made about an approach to 2003
international tournaments (eg. Oceania Regionals? World Disc Games?)
before looking at 2003 overseas tournaments (eg. Australian Nationals).
Perhaps Australian Nationals is better approached as a step toward
these other international tournaments, rather than a destination - it
has been used this way in the past (97?). Perhaps also the overall
2003 approach is best formulated taking the next Worlds (Finland 2004)
into account.

R

On Thursday, October 31, 2002, at 03:14 PM, Rachel Grindlay wrote:

> The Australian National Ultimate Championships for 2003 will be held
> over
> 25-28 April 2003 in Canberra. It is 6 months until the tournament.
>
> I want to notify people wanting to attend what the selection
> criteria/process will be for teams. Since the draft representation
> policy
> has been parked until we have some further thoughts on regional
> development
> and tournaments I am unsure how to proceed from here.
>
> One suggestion that has been made to me, is that an initial squad is
> formed
> at the first 'tour'* event, and that there is a time slot allocated at
> that
> event, and those following which enables to squad to play one game.
> (i.e. if
> there are 25 men interested in attending Aus Nats then they will play
> a game
> at each tour event, and then from those who are in this squad a team is
> selected). This would depend on their being time available at
> tournaments to
> fit such a game in. Interested players could be required to attend at
> least
> 1 or 2 of these events so that selectors are able to see all candidates
> playing. The problem with this is the timing of the final selections
> may be
> too close to the dates of Aussie Nats. A benefit of this would be that
> the
> players get to actually play some mens/womens ultimate and also get to
> play
> at least a couple of times with their team mates.
>
> [*or should that be the first tournament in the series of tournaments
> which
> were formerly known as the tour.]
>
> Anyway, has anyone got thoughts on this? I see little point having a
> selection policy if it is not used. But more importantly the
> principles of
> the policy are what I think are crucial: "The process used to select
> teams
> for international events is clear and transparent, simple, and
> rationally
> defensible."
>
> Rachel
>
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