Tourney: UK Euros Qualifier 2011 (Sat April 16th)

Any half decent one would do it easily. The only problem is storage and needing a 2 stroke fuel mix maybe (out of my depth already - google) The bloke at Bristol just had a handheld one and it did the job well by the looks of it.

I could go to b&q this week sometime. But would it really blow rocks and twigs and glass?

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the clue is in the name 'LEAF'blower

Pussies, what's wrong with using a broom? Too much like hard work.

Neil, there's no entry fee or anything, but you will have to supply your own food/drinks unless a Londoner steps up to run a BBQ or something.

2 stroke fuel is easy, but emits more fumes into the environment. Battery ones seem common now, but are probably less powerful.

The other benefit of a blower is the time taken to clear the courts (15 mins compared to an hour, etc), but whatever the majority want...

but whatever the majority want...

Poll!

A. buy a leaf-blower
B. £90 brooms. But they'd better be good or Bill will be angry
C. Make the European-cheater-mallet-owners do it
D. Wait til nesting season and hope the birds clear the worst of the twigs.

I vote C.

E. Leave it. I like the randomness the debris brings to the game.

2 stroke is the least clean of all the petroleum-based fuels.

Pussies, what's wrong with using a broom? Too much like hard work.

+1

This brings something to mind. I was thinking about doing a once a month clean up of downham, and mitch, but possibly making it a rota. As it's pretty much always the same people who do the sweeping.

I vote C.

I vote B & C. The ECM owners buy the brooms, and do the sweeping.

Also, why are we allowing an amphibian to give us advice on street-cleansing? He lives in a tree, ffs.

lol

This brings something to mind. I was thinking about doing a once a month clean up of downham, and mitch, but possibly making it a rota. As it's pretty much always the same people who do the sweeping.

hahahahahahahahahahaha

sometimes you crack me up Gabes, a rota.....

he put you first on the rota.

I have done enough of cleaning in those courts....

some lovely people of the LBP have phobia to brooms, if its cleaning day, they dont come out and play

they do, but once the sweeping is done.

I vote B & C. The ECM owners buy the brooms, and do the sweeping.

This.

Jon, Mrak - assuming you two are in charge of format ... will this be two RR groups of 7 teams? How will the split happen?

I'm not sure I follow what you mean by groups. The idea is for a complete RR tourney, not two groups with their own RR (that would be a bad idea. Swiss would be much better).

One big round robin. 13 games per team. Bring it on.

agreed

Each team plays every other team by random selection, evenly spread out throughout the day.

It's 91 games, or 13 sets of 7 games (teams play in pairs).

We'll have time to finish each set of 7, tally and then continue if people want to, or we can play the games back-to-back, non-stop.

Mrak's in charge of the actual scheduling software/approach, he's good at it.

ah, ok - my mistake. fangs.

Also, once we reach the the last few rounds, if 2 teams are both through, or can't qualify any more, then that game will be skipped. At least that's how I understand it.