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Welcome!
Welcome to the UK Dodge Ball message forum.
I have started this forum to discuss all things Dodge Ball that are relevant to the UK.
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5/8/2006, 11:49 am
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Sheriff Fatman
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Re: Welcome!
Hello fellow dodgeballers. At last I have found a forum dedicated to dodgeball.....well done and thanks. I have a dodgeball team in Halifax (West Yorkshire) and I'm looking to start a league, anyone got any hot tips? We've got the balls (ooo er missus) and we've got a hall but we seem to be the only team in the North of England. How can I get people interested? Help!
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8/11/2006, 11:19 pm
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Re: Welcome!
I hope my e-mail helped you out. It can take 2 or 3 weeks before anything happens though. I'm still working at getting the word out. We still only have 3 teams, so I am going to concentreate on recruiting individuals/groups of friends and helping them to form teams.
Best of Luck!
Nick
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8/19/2006, 4:12 pm
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Just thought I'd give you an update on how I'm getting on. Your advice really helped, thank you. One of our players is a graphic designer and he pulled togther a superb flyer which I printed off at work (about 50 copies to be honest) lets hope my boss doesn't find out!!!
We then used Viper recruitment as an excuse to go out on a boys night out and staggered around Halifax until 2am talking to complete strangers and giving them flyers. They went in phone boxes, pubs, curry houses.... everywhere we went got flyer'd.
I woke up next day with a stinking hangover and not a single text or message on my phone. 
An entire week went past and then last night at 7 o'clock a guy rang me and said 'are you that dodgeball guy'.. 'yes' I said... 'your not taking the piss are you?' he said... 'NO' i said. 'Well' he said 'can I bring 5 of my mates to play next tuesday?'....'Of course' I said.
So..... next Tues we have a match with some builders from Halifax.
Just wanted to say a massive thanks and I hope that if they enjoy it that they'll tell their mates and we'll get some more teams involved.
Cheers
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8/27/2006, 2:36 pm
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Glad to hear you got some opposition, at last. You have to take highs and lows when you try starting something new.
One of our 3 teams isn't keen anymore cause there is no new opposition. So this week we had an open night, for new players to come along and give it a go. We put out 1,000 flyers through people's letterboxes and had a posting in the local paper's what's on feature.
We charged £1 per head and had 10 new players turn up. We lost out financially on the night but will get it back in the long run. We had 3 players from my team, so us experienced guys took it in turns to ref and we played 3 matches.
There will definitely be 1 new team and maybe 2 forming from this one open night. We are planning on doing the same every 5th or 6th week for the rest of this year, targetting a different area of the town each time.
Keep the faith, and keep on spreading the word.
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8/31/2006, 2:33 pm
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Hi Nick,
We were playing last night and we had the grand total of 7 player and it suddenly came to me that 'why didn't we start off a 3 man league'. I mentioned it to the others and they agreed it was a good idea. That way we get the league starting earlier plus it's easier to find 2 mates willing to play with you, rather than 5. Then once the league starts we can extend the numbers to 6 per team. 6 per team is better, but it's a pipe dream at the moment for Halifax!
Is this something you have thought of for when numbers are low.
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9/6/2006, 11:23 am
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Re: Welcome!
We sometimes have similar problems. Last night we finished off the league season with 5 on 5. I agree that you have to go with what you've got to keep it going.
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9/7/2006, 11:44 pm
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