At the moment shall we just keep to the top two teams, by seeding? If turnouts stay high, and there's more enthusiasm for tournaments from people seeded 9-12th we can incorporate a third team.
We could spread the games out through the night, and play 'best of three'. IE three ten-minute games, with proper reffing, spread out across the evening. We could keep a record of the scores to raise players' enthusiasm (mimic tournament conditions) and see how B Team in particular progresses over the months. Maybe even record scorers/assists/strong saves to finally get to the bottom of what we're *actually *good at... That would also give the spectators something to do!
This way it's only 20-30 mins of 'exclusive' play, but we make an effort to do it every time. Also, people not in either team can play the following game and all the other games are just random throw-ins.
Sorry, wordy response (again).
PS - we'll also need to do re-seeding soon to see where Neil fits into the scheme of things.
Yeah, good idea.
At the moment shall we just keep to the top two teams, by seeding? If turnouts stay high, and there's more enthusiasm for tournaments from people seeded 9-12th we can incorporate a third team.
We could spread the games out through the night, and play 'best of three'. IE three ten-minute games, with proper reffing, spread out across the evening. We could keep a record of the scores to raise players' enthusiasm (mimic tournament conditions) and see how B Team in particular progresses over the months. Maybe even record scorers/assists/strong saves to finally get to the bottom of what we're *actually *good at... That would also give the spectators something to do!
This way it's only 20-30 mins of 'exclusive' play, but we make an effort to do it every time. Also, people not in either team can play the following game and all the other games are just random throw-ins.
Sorry, wordy response (again).
PS - we'll also need to do re-seeding soon to see where Neil fits into the scheme of things.