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Can we have a new thread for this please?
I don't have any suggestions for next year, only that we can't do what we did on Sunday again. We have to strike a balance between keeping the door open for as many teams as possible, and making the qualification process manageable. Sunday was borderline unmanageable.
Perhaps we should be using results from early season tournaments, using some sort of co-efficient, or position averaging, to determine which teams should qualify. This would encourage participation in UK tournaments by the best UK teams.
We would also need to make sure that the standard of tournament is good enough also. IMO, Sunday's tournament wasn't good enough. Newington is a great court, and it has a lot going for it, but it isn't even the best polo court(s) in London. The only reason we used it is because there are 2 courts & it is lit, not because it has good surface, is near to an ideal size etc etc.