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Well done to the following UK scenes for filling that form in, good job.
Edinburgh, 4 teams, 1 potential Euro team.
Sheffield, 2 teams, 1 potential Euro team.
London, 18+ teams, 15 potential Euro teams.
Cambridge, 3 teams, 2 potential Euro teams.
Manchester, 2 teams, 2 potential Euro teams.
Birmingham, 2 teams, 2 potential Euro teams.
London are huge and Cosmic/Apples/BAD/Malice did the job for us in tourney experience/wins. London also pulled in the most weight/slots by size and age of polo scene. Cambridge, Manchester and Edinburgh were roughly equal on players and scene experience. Manchester had better tourney results thanks to Netto, Cambridge not far behind (Fenboy 3). Birmingham and Sheffield brought up the rear, but established the UK as having more cities than other countries, good job.
The actual formula/decision making is with Alejandro, but apparently most of the data was sound. Obviously some scenes missed out by not filling in the form, the late comers didn't really affect us thankfully.
I'm no closer to thinking up a fair way of sharing things out, I'm leaning more and more towards "mega tourney", although the date could be tricky for everyone. London could do a nice thing and give away a third of the slots to encourage the rest of the UK scenes. Just thinking out loud...
I'm sending an email to the registrars now to join in this discussion. Also, if your city failed to fill in the form, boo.
Anyone got any bright ideas (like Chan's, etc)?
It's gonna be difficult to "close the discussion" unless each of the six scenes above nominates two people (or something) and their usernames can be identified... I don't have that kind of info, etc. Can't we just avoid any "this would be better for me" and have a civil chat? Probably not...