London League Peripheral Regional Opportunities for Winter Play

You'd think, wouldn't you?

RoE = London, England, France

Yep

Close, but I think you'll find that (following the Treaty of Karlsruhe) England extends as far south as Toulouse.

Close, but I think you'll find that (following the Treaty of Karlsruhe) England extends as far south as Toulouse.

Why do we not get cheaper cheese then!!! Outraged!!

I don't get the RoE/London divide that's going on...

In this 'brainstorming' context it refers to LDN having an (or preparing for) existing winter league format and therefore the RoE (any other scene) having to make arrangements to parallel that, to engage in some sort of play offs. Nothing else implied.

The London league is organised by londoners and despite there being londoners who think it should be open to everyone who can commit, it always comes down to vote and they've previously not been on the side of allowing nonlondoners.

How about the uk organises another league, if you allowed Londoners in I'm sure there would be teams that would join...

Basically I'm saying rather than waiting for London to invite you, why not organise and invite London?

Mainly because of the practicalities involved - think how much palaver there is for London to organise league games, then multiply that by the distance between other UK scenes.

How about a slightly more loose league, no schedualling, teams rock up and play who ever they can, when ever they can. Needs two indipendant witnesses, scores are posted and collated.

You need to play in at least 3 scene's for your results to qualify (for the purposes of this I would describe London as making 2 scenes, but up to organisers)

Needs some kind of special relational table to deal with the fact some teams may win all their games in small scenes but never play the best... So you can never be placed more than one place higher than the highest team you beat!... Hmmm maybe that last rule wouldn't work...

Anyway, you could even have an individual league?

Why does it have to be the rest of UK though? Why not within your scenes? It would improve attendance and you could have 2 v 2 if you don't have the numbers?

The rest of the UK is not one scene and London another, its a weird way of looking at things. Especially when tournaments are held and London is the only scene not invited... Its not conducive to anything.

And back to the OP...

No requests for tournaments/places etc. for non-LDNrs - just access to dates (and encouragement ;-) ) so that we can notify/plan to be in and around LDN to play different players and teams other than our normal scenes, when we know there is activity and venues. To be even clearer, not to muscle in - merely to hook up with other teams/players before/after the prearranged matches. We know Brighton/Cambridge have done this previously (to their obvious benefit) and there's geographical/transport reasons why it is less of a big deal - but Manchester etc. requires some planning and inevitable cost on our part.