I'm not thinking about getting expressions of interest at this stage. I am
more thinking about just putting it in people's minds.

I agree that a coordinated build-up would be a good idea though, so perhaps
an agreement on what tournaments fit into the build-up would be useful.

The international calendar so far really only has
- Australian Nationals April 2003 & 2004
- Pacific-Rim Champs??? mid-2003???
- Finland Aug 2004

There is the World Disc Games (http://www.worlddiscgames.com/) being held in
California - however I think we are better off to attend a pacific-rim
champs if it happens - though since there has been no further information
about this perhaps WDG should be considered?

Thoughts?

Rachel

P.S. Incidentally Finland is likely to just be WUC with no guts. My
apologies for all those aspiring guts competitors.

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Lewis-Shell [mailto:nog@...]
Sent: Monday, 4 November 2002 9:23 p.m.
To: upc-international@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [upc-international] Finland 2004


I think it's great to be thinking about Finland this far out -
especially with a possible #2 seeding to defend! If we're going to ask
for expressions of interest, lets do it for all the international
tournaments leading up to Finland - this should help plan an
international participation policy that leads/builds up to Finland.

At this stage we should definitely aim to send teams in more than just
the mixed division - I think NZ Ultimate is far better off with us
having a weak team in a division than not having a team in a division
at all.

R