[UK-CONTEST] Beru 2012 - Team Competition.

[Peter Hobbs]

Hi Brian

Only the numbers have changed.  The remaining team rules are unchanged.  
Hence a "captain" is needed for each team of 5, which must be nominated 
in advance of the off.  You're right in that the main drive behind this 
change was to allow areas with fewer available entrants to field a full 
team. 

As an example, it is possible that independent Med and Caribbean (or 
southern americas) teams could emerge, which could limit the scope for 
ROC.  Note that a ROC team cannot recruit members from call areas which 
are represented in other teams, but this limitation does not apply to 
teams in nominated geographical regions (e.g. VE3 could figure in more 
than one Canadian team, if such should emerge).  However, there is 
nothing to prevent ROC from picking up members from any area which is 
not actually represented in any of the other teams.

In the case of multiple team entries from (e.g.) VE, VK or ZL, there is 
currently no need for these to be regionally based - this would be at 
the discretion of team captains, who may decided to name their teams 
geographically, or in any other way they choose.

I hope this doesn't come over as overly complex - the idea of the change 
was to give as much flexibility in team formation as reasonably possible.

As Bob has indicated in his BERU website, all team nominations are very 
welcome from established or new team captains - note that your team 
doesn't need to be finalised until shortly before the start of the event.

73, Peter G3LET
Team Competition Umpire


brian coyne wrote:

>Bob, G3PJT, posted a note here the other day re the change of number of team members, reduced from 10 to 5 members per team.
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>This will no doubt be welcome news to teams such as Africa and Asia who previuosly been unable to make a full team and now make them more competetive.
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>We shall now be interested to learn how team captains are planning to select the teams. I note the rule now refers to teams in the plural, I presume this means say strongly supported Teams like Canada, ROW etc fielding 'A', 'B', & 'C' teams. Would this be on the basis, as per AFS of the top 5 finishers for each region forming team 'A' etc after the event has been run or does each team specifically have to register team members for each of group A, B, C etc prior to the event.
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>So far as ROW is affected then it is surely necessary to consider some geographical divide.to make some sort of sense and also at least split Canada into east and west.
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>I shall be interested to hear other thoughts on this new format since our committee do not put forward a 'Green Paper' for comments prior to making these decisions.
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>73  Brian 5B4AIZ/ C4Z.
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