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Post by brogers003 on Sept 5, 2010 21:20:07 GMT -6
HI,
So the other captains and I at NSU were talking today about possibly hosting a tournament.
While we are trying to get schools down here to start teams so we can have some in state competition, we were wondering if that would be all our competition.
In short, we were wondering if anyone would be interested in coming down here to compete.
If so please let me know.
Thanks, Brittany
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Post by Zigmister on Sept 13, 2010 0:01:08 GMT -6
15 hour drive - 900 miles - average $80 in gas 1800 miles and $160 per car = $32 per person in travel with a 5 seater. And about $440-600 for two nights of hotel.
I also looked into flights, but we'd still have to rent a car in state to drive to NSU because of the airport distances.
I have some DePaul Ultimate friends that do a Mardi Gras trip to New Orleans each year - they end up driving the whole way nonstop. And my team likes to complain a lot on just a 4 hour ride.
It's all the way out there, but it still could be done. There would probably have to be something cool happening to help negate the costs. Or free lodging. Two nights is probably a must; who want to drive 15 hours back immediately following a tourney.
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Post by brogers003 on Sept 19, 2010 22:56:54 GMT -6
if yall look at plane trips we could probably get a car pool together to come get yall (if yall flew into alexandria or shreveport)... but we are just in the planning stage right now and we're just trying to determine if we'd even have people come...
since we started talking about a tournament we've been having funding issues so we have to figure that out before we can plan any type of tournament
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Post by Mike 'Squeak' Youngs on Sept 30, 2010 12:12:13 GMT -6
It's all the way out there, but it still could be done. There would probably have to be something cool happening to help negate the costs. Or free lodging. Two nights is probably a must; who want to drive 15 hours back immediately following a tourney. Ultimate frisbee teams do this multiple times in a school year and have to pay for it all out of pocket. In a given season, big teams will travel to georgia, texas, and vegas and then around 5-8 other tournaments in their region (which are still around 5 hour drives). Then they all head back to be back to campus by Monday morning. I think if we want the league to expand a little bit and be more successful we shouldn't write off tournaments out of hand just because they are far away. I think we need to not just consider but really encourage teams to do some traveling to get to these far away schools. Hell we're in college, you aren't gonna be able to travel to other parts of the country for fun times like dodgeball forever.
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Post by kentuckybrown on Oct 7, 2010 7:30:09 GMT -6
Do you all have any idea as to when your tournament will be? UK would love to try and make it down.
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Post by Zigmister on Oct 7, 2010 13:16:44 GMT -6
Ultimate frisbee teams do this multiple times in a school year and have to pay for it all out of pocket. In a given season, big teams will travel to georgia, texas, and vegas and then around 5-8 other tournaments in their region (which are still around 5 hour drives). Then they all head back to be back to campus by Monday morning. I think if we want the league to expand a little bit and be more successful we shouldn't write off tournaments out of hand just because they are far away. I think we need to not just consider but really encourage teams to do some traveling to get to these far away schools. Hell we're in college, you aren't gonna be able to travel to other parts of the country for fun times like dodgeball forever. Ya, i understand I'm good friends with the DePaul Ultimate Club. I think it might also be a problem that dodgeball is a 20 people person team, and Ultimate commonly takes 10 people. It is also increasingly difficult when some schools in the league don't get funding for their club travel, like Kent and and Kentucky. Combined with 3-4 cars and all that, expensiveness. Not as expensive as ice hockey, but I think the idea gets across And I agree, we shouldn't write off tournaments just because they are far. I think i was talking that they could have nationals if they wanted to, or it would be in NSU's interest to host a large event. But when depaul will only give us a max of $3000 in travel for the year, its really difficult to find more than 10 people (at least on my team) that want to spend $75 a person (without food) to go to a tournament. Nationals alone was $1300 last year. I love travel, so I would be down. and if Brittnay, if you put on a tourney and announce it enough time for us to get funding(about a month or so), DePaul will work out a plan to try to make it.
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Post by Mike 'Squeak' Youngs on Oct 11, 2010 7:09:17 GMT -6
Depaul's ultimate team is apparently pretty small. We normally send somewhere between 15 and 25 depending on the tournament.
Either way though, MSU doesn't get funding for travel and it isn't uncommon for us to send 2 teams to some of these tournaments. Obviously a massive travel like Louisiana we won't bring 2, but we don't get travel money. I think it is more common for "smaller" schools to get money for things like that than the bigger ones.
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Post by brogers003 on Jan 7, 2011 1:02:44 GMT -6
Hey guys so i know its been a long time since i've said anything about an NSU hosted tournament, but Yasser Mark and I were talking and we're thinking that we might try to host one in February... but we're not positive... we're trying to find out if any teams are interested and if so what weekends are good (so we can try to plan around the most teams possible) thanks
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