Is BUCS enough?

[Blind Zebra]

There has been some comment this year about the lack of fixtures for the less successful BUCS teams once the knock out stage is reached. The Centurion Lacrosse club has been asked to look at providing an end of season competition for those not involved in the final stages of BUCS lacrosse next season. The Centurions would be happy to provide a trophy, prizes and admin for such a new competition if it adds value to university lacrosse.

Until we know the BUCS fixture schedule it’s hard to come up with many ideas on how it might look, but

Any thoughts on whether more games are needed?
What might it look like?
When should it begin and end? Early summer term lax?

BeeZee.

[webby]

Part of me feels there should be more games, while part of me feels that if teams want more games, they should enter NEMLA/SEMLA.

However, a tournament or a few tournaments at the end of the season (which is effectively February/March) would keep people's interest up - we had a lot of guys stop coming as there were no games available, and they weren't quite good enough to play in the NEMLA team on saturdays.

Possible solution - 3x tournaments (North, South, Midlands) in the form of group stages, then Cup and Plate competitions a la Bluesfest etc.

Or smaller divisions but play each team home and away (e.g. divisions of 6 teams = 12 games, while at the moment it's about 9 teams = 9 games).

[Raptor_attack]

some sort of regional plate competition run alongside the actual bucs knockout, maybe round robin in the region (extra 3 games or so) to seed then finals day where you play against teams from other regions.

Teams failing to make the knockouts for Bucs need as much match time as possible really

[gazmanofhull]

The ELA are addressing this in a small way with regional freshers series events based on the BUCS regional structure. There is a designated person in each region organising tournaments for freshers only. They are designed to provide season-long competition for those new to the game and so avoid losing people that are new to the game due to a lack of interest.

The Yorkshire & North-East schedule is already out and the final small details being ironed out. 5 events, spread across the region. 1 event in November, December and February, 2 in March. I believe the final plan is that the overall winner of each regional series goes forward to a national finals event.

As far as 2nd and 3rd years go, the Hull Uni guys used the post-BUCS season this year to prepare those who will be in the starting line-up come October. Doesn't suit everybody, but certainly the 3rd Years appreciated being able to put more focus on dissertations etc

[gavin1587]

Any chance of scottish uni teams getting invloved with this?

[Blind Zebra]

Any chance of scottish uni teams getting invloved with this?

From The Centurion viewpoint. Yes.

How do others feel about involving them?

BeeZee.

[Mort rotu]

Any chance of scottish uni teams getting invloved with this?

From The Centurion viewpoint. Yes.

How do others feel about involving them?

BeeZee.

go for it, id be up for a road trip to Scotland

[LPierce]

Sounds like a good idea, especially as we no longer have St Andrews to play in our division.

[jamierwelsh]

Sounds like a fantastic idea, the more lacrosse the better.

Also where can I read more on this freshers event that is being planned?

[LPierce]

I hope this happens, we only have 6 BUCS games now

[dimi_mc]

yeah same here we only have 5 other teams so we will be looking for friendlies and tourni's to go to aswell

[snooplax]

yeah same here we only have 5 other teams so we will be looking for friendlies and tourni's to go to aswell

Join a club team as well as playing for the Uni

[plainnash]

yeah same here we only have 5 other teams so we will be looking for friendlies and tourni's to go to aswell

Join a club team as well as playing for the Uni

Like Chester...

[dimi_mc]

yep just like you guys show you how its done lol