Dori and everyone, I think that the title of the discussion going here should be a subtitle of a vaster discussion - how the Israeli Ultimate season should look like.
To quote what Micki has written in the Passover 2007 thread:
בוא נשגר את עצמנו שנתיים קדימה:
יש ליגה רשמית וניקוד. PO אולי יהפוך לגביע המדינה ומנצחי הדרוג בליגה יהיו אלופים (נגיד)
אולי לפי הדרוג הזה ייקבע מי טס לאליפות אירופה/העולם וכו' וכו'.
I think we should seriously think about all of these details. Speaking about creating a league, how is that going to work? Does that mean that every week there will be one game between two teams, and the week after between other two teams and so on? Or we would rather have all teams play on the same date, but every month? What teams will be allowed to be a part of the league? What happens if one team would like to postpone a game due to various reasons, but the other team would rather not?
These are only examples of many questions we should answer.
I suggest that we'll first try to make a sketch of how a season should look like. I believe we should agree tentative dates as well. For instance, we can say we want the league to start in October and end in June, to have PO (as the cup) whenever Passover is, which is around March-April, decide we want to have one HAT tournament in September, one in February and one in July. I'm just throwing dates here to demonstrate how the sketch I suggest will look like, the dates themselves aren't relevant.
Only when we have this sketch should we set rules for tournaments. Each tournament is likely to be a lot different from the other. When it comes to one-day tournaments like PO, the responsibility of setting the courts etc is the owners'. However, if and when a league is set, it should probably be the host team's responsibility to take care of that. Again, we should set those things.
What do you guys think?
Shabat Shalom,
Omer.