First off i just wanted to thank Sparklie for the effort that she has put in to the series, Liz, Kieran and the rest of the crew. You have put on a great series and deserve praise. Hopefully something will be done about the marshalling next year, i have a few suggestions for Sparklie of you are short on teams to judge:
Offer free entry for teams that judge one event for when they enter the next. Although this will cost you financially in the short term, say 1 event, when the other teams hear of the good marshalling they will flock to the event. Everything else about the series is amazing,the fields are good, the staging area is first class and if the marshalling was consistently of a high standard then attendace would sky rocket and you would make far more money in the long term.
Make it a mandatory requirement for teams in Div 1 to marshall one leg of the series. I think that there are some experienced reffing crews in Div 1, Tigers, Shockwave, Jaguars, Backlash, Shockwave Am, Outcast, all have judged Millenniums this season, and know their stuff. Storm, Ecstacy would both make good judges in my opinion as well. That is 8 teams who would do a fantastic job of marshalling and raise the standard of the event.
Ask someone with the ability to design the fields for you. there were some complaints from teams yesterday and throughout the series about the field building. I thought that the fields yesterday were very good, but others did not. Ask Colin Graham from Campaign to design the fieds for you. I have seen, as have many others, the designs of the X ball fields for Campaign on his computer generation. If you asked him, and compensated him accordingly i am sure he would help you out. The bonus of this is that teams could be sent the layout of the fields in the pack that you send out as a series of computer printouts, like they did for Toulouse, making the even more professional and popular. I seriously think that you are onto a winner and the series will only get stronger next year when the teething problems have been ironed out.
So, what do you think guys?
Offer free entry for teams that judge one event for when they enter the next. Although this will cost you financially in the short term, say 1 event, when the other teams hear of the good marshalling they will flock to the event. Everything else about the series is amazing,the fields are good, the staging area is first class and if the marshalling was consistently of a high standard then attendace would sky rocket and you would make far more money in the long term.
Make it a mandatory requirement for teams in Div 1 to marshall one leg of the series. I think that there are some experienced reffing crews in Div 1, Tigers, Shockwave, Jaguars, Backlash, Shockwave Am, Outcast, all have judged Millenniums this season, and know their stuff. Storm, Ecstacy would both make good judges in my opinion as well. That is 8 teams who would do a fantastic job of marshalling and raise the standard of the event.
Ask someone with the ability to design the fields for you. there were some complaints from teams yesterday and throughout the series about the field building. I thought that the fields yesterday were very good, but others did not. Ask Colin Graham from Campaign to design the fieds for you. I have seen, as have many others, the designs of the X ball fields for Campaign on his computer generation. If you asked him, and compensated him accordingly i am sure he would help you out. The bonus of this is that teams could be sent the layout of the fields in the pack that you send out as a series of computer printouts, like they did for Toulouse, making the even more professional and popular. I seriously think that you are onto a winner and the series will only get stronger next year when the teething problems have been ironed out.
So, what do you think guys?
