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

BNZ Winter Tournament

BNZ Winter Tournament

August 23 to 28 Victoria University

Victoria is playing host this august vacation to the national universities Winter Tournament organised on behalf of the New Zealand Universities Sports Union. It will be held here at a variety of venues both on and off campus during the first week of the vacation (August 23 to 28).

Tournament encompasses a number of sports (14 in total this year); being Badminton, Basketball (M&W). Billiards, Cross Country, Fencing, Hockey (M&W), Karate, Motorsport, Netball, Rugby League, Small Bore Shooting, Soccer (M&W), Squash and Table Tennis.

Such a wide range of sports especially to be accommodated here at Victoria causes a number of essentially administrative headaches. So how do we hope to overcome these problems?

A Sub-committee!!

We've set up a sub-committee of Sports Council called, wait for it, the Winter Tournament Organising Sub-Committee consisting of ourselves (the controllers) and anyone else we deem necessary to assist; such persons being the individual sports controllers, billetting, social and transport coordinators etc. At the moment we desperately need people to help organise billetting, the social programme and tournament ball. So if you know someone or think you might be interested in helping don't hesitate to contact us at Studass.

Well, what have we done so far? On the surface not a hell of a lot but a lot of background work has been covered. Venues for outside grounds have been booked, the gym booked, and other odds and ends such as ordering T-shirts and Sweatshirts plus numerous letter writing. All very tedious and boring no doubt to most, but we're still surviving (so far).

However, the most important work done so far has been in attaining major sponsorship from the BNZ. As you may have noticed in the heading, the tournament will be known as the BNZ Winter Tournament. This is a major step forward for the financing of these tournaments and is a move which hopefully will become a regular feature of tournaments in the future, as opposed to having to annually increase the NZUSU levy of $1.14 which is incorporated in your Sports Council Levy.

As well as financial sponsorship the BNZ is also assisting in the design of publicity material for the tournament. The first example of this should become evident in next week's Salient in the form of separate specially designed Winter Tournament ½ page, which will be a regular feature until tournament, which is only 12 weeks away.

The Advertising Campaign

Also in the next month each campus in the country should be invaded by a Winter Tournament poster advertising the fact that it's on here this year. Following that a national student newspaper supplement is planned for release some time after study break. The feature of all these various forms o fpublicity will be the tournament logo, a concept currently being conceived by the BNZ in association with us and their advertising agency.

Hopefully this logo will be incorporated with, or on, everything concerning tournament (e.g. posters, T-shirts, registration cards, etc) and people will automatically associate it with both our tournament and NZUSU as a body.

Clearly the approach being taken so far suggests that this year's tournament will be much more obvious to students than these events have been in the past, and it would be fair to say that with the intervention of the BNZ into this form of sponsorship a much more professional attitude to presentation is being made, and that in the long run this will be of benefit to students at large.

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