This is how it worked on Gm this year.

Two weeks before the event Alan Barlow e-mails me and askes if we are putting a team in. I say 'I dont know mate'. I then take it upon myself to sort a team out. have a discussion with GM athletics who inform me that we never enter it!!! I had to point out that I had won it for the last two years to this year and that Team GM had won it for the past two years as well!!! (Nice to see those people in charge at GM athletics follow the events!) Told the women I would sort the mens team out and asked about the entry fee. I paid it and then got it refunded. Think I will write to them later to let them know how the four lads got on and that they retained their team title.