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Salient. Official Newspaper of the Victoria University Students' Association. Vol 44 No. 12. June 8 1981

Lack of Facilities

Lack of Facilities

One of the worst aspects of hosting a tournament at Victoria is our lack of facilities. We have no outdoor venues and thus we have sports playing as far away as Karori Park. Also, although we have an extremely good amenity in the form of the Recreation Centre the facilities there are not large enough to cope with our men's and women's basketball competition and thus our basketball will be played at the other end of town in the Chinese Cultural Centre. We also have a number of other venues scattered throughout the city and even further afield, as with the harriers course.

Thus tournament during the day will be a very divergent operation. Hopefully this will be overcome by concentrating many other activities in the Union Building. At the moment we have plans for an 'aftermatch bar' to operate in the early evening where all competitors can get together and relax before rushing into the vigours of the nightlife of campus. We also would like to get away from a series of similar type hops which tend to categorise these tournaments and would appreciate any suggestions as to alternative ways to entertain 800 students in the Union Building at night (anything considered).

An important aspect of being host campus is that it gives us a great opportunity to win the tournament because of availability of top competitors, and hopefully all serious competitors will already be in training, as tourny is less than three months away. In the near future a list will be published of team co-ordinators for Victoria competitors.

Well, hopefully this has given some insight into what we're all up against and how we hope to overcome some of the problems. Don't forget to think about taking a billet. A billeting list will be started shortly so start measuring up and counting up spare beds, floor space, cupboard space etc. Multiply it by five, subtract two and divide by seven. The answer is six billets for your flat, which should just about eliminate our billeting problem. See you next week.

Stephens Tew

and

Dawe

Tournament Controllers