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Welcome
to the home of the European Ultimate Championship Series
(EUCS).
NEWS 2009-12-23: Dear European Ultimate Federations, 2009-09-30: on Friday September 25th the EFDF held its annual member meeting, where 14 Federations attended. The meeting minutes can be found here as pdf or doc file. During the meeting the European Ultimate Federation (EUF) Executive Committee has been elected:
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Rue explained that he is going to take over this position, only if EUF will
become part of WFDF and not a standalone legal entity. Oddi 2009-09-30: Congratulation to Chevron Action Flash (UK) for their first title in the open division, Icini (UK) for their second title in the wonem one, Brighton (UK) for the first place in the mixed one, Helsinki (FIN) for their victory of the master divion. Congratulation also to the spirit of the game winner: Open: Wall City (GER) Women: Hot Beaches (CZ) Mixed: Frizzly Bears (GER) Masters: Frisbeurs (FRA) The final standings can be found here as well as for some write-ups. ciao Oddi 2009-09-05: after the 4 EUCRs, the following teams will be grouped in 3 divisions and will compete in the Open division at the XEUCF in London. Open1 (16 teams), Open2 (16 teams), Open3 (6 teams)
Check out the regional pages for all final results. ciao Oddi 2009-08-27: Dear European federations,
the largest European Ultimate Championship Series ever will have its next stage on the weekend of August 28th-30th! 4 EUCRs tournaments will be simultaneously played following the same rules and having standardized formats, in order to select the teams which will play in the XEUCF of London in Open1 (16 teams), Open2 (16 Teams) and Open3 (6 teams). The regional bids
are the following:
NE: 4 Open1,
5 Open2, 1 Open3 = 10 teams
W: 4 Open 1, 4
Open2, 3 Open3 = 11 teams
CE: 4 Open1, 4
Open2, 1 Open3 = 9 teams
SW: 4 Open1,
3 Open2, 1 Open3 = 8 teams
Only Open1 teams can
get medals in London.
Open2 teams can
reach max. 9th
Open3 teams can
reach max. 17th.
Check out the regional pages for the list of the teams, the rules and the schedules. ciao Oddi 2009-07-23: The Open division at the XEUCF in London will be played in
3 slightly overlapping divisions.
Open1 with 16 Teams, Open2 with 16 teams and Open3 with 8
up to 12. Unfortunatelly we cannot provide the exact number so far, because of
the pending confirmation of some teams.
Only Open1 teams will have a chance to win a medal, while
Open2 ones can get max. 9th. Open3 teams won't be able to reach a position
higher than 25th.
The bid distribution for the various divisions is planned
as following:
The top 4 teams of each region will advance to the division
Open1 at the XEUCF in London.
The general approach for the Open2 is to assign 4 bids per
region. This could change if one of these situations
happens:
a) the region has exactly as many teams participationg in
XEUCF in the Open division as the sum of the bids for open1 and open2, leaving
no bid for Open3 (e.g. 8 or less).
b) the region has exactly as many teams participating in
EUCR as the sum of the bids for open1 and open2 (e.g. 8 or
less).
In this situation this region won't be able to recieve 4
bids for Open2. The vacant bid(s) will be redistributed to other regions, which
would still fulfill the requirements above.
All remaining teams, including those who forfait the EUCR,
will be put into the division Open3.
Schedule templates for all EUCRs will be provided by the
CSC latest 1 week before the tournament, in order to have a standardized
format and they will take particular care that the boundaries between 2
divisions will be as accurate as possible.
The WFDF Rules 2009 without experimental rules will be used during EUCRs and XEUCF. ciao Oddi 2009-06-04: Dear EUCS Teams Please notice that the roster submission for the EUCS 2009 is due for all divisions the day before the national qualification tournament (EUCQ) or latest on July 20th (<< deadline has been extended!). Please send an email to Roster Submission indicating your Please carefully read the eligibility rules and the FAQ session in order to correctly fill in the roster. Thanks & ciao Oddi 2009-05-28: Dear European Federations the web page of the eXtended European Ultimate Championship Finals is Online registration is opened till June 8th. Thanks Oddi 2009-04-23: Dear European Federations We are happy to announce that all EUCRs Tournaments, which are a mandatory step for all Open teams, who will attend to the XEUCF2009, have been fixed: EUCR-SW will be held near Varese (I) on August 29th-30th (2 days) only in the open division. EUCR-W will be held in Loughborough (UK) on August 29th-30th (2 days) only in the open division. EUCR-NE will be held in Tallinn (EST) on August 29th-30th (2 days) only in the open division. EUCR-CE will be held in Nürnberg (D) on August 28th-30th (2,5 days) only in the open division. Parallel to it, there will be a women tournament in the same location. Some details are already available in the regional subpages. Roster submission for the EUCS 2009 is due for all divisions the day before the national qualification tournament (EUCQ) or latest on May 31st. Please send an email to Roster Submission indicating your Soon you will get also more detailed information about the XEUCF in London (fees, deadlines, waiting lists, etc.) ciao Oddi 2009-03-27: Dear European Federations We received 124 (!!!) bids, but the venue can host max. 100 teams, so a selection was necessary and it was really hard to take the decision. We are happy to announce that a master division will take place again and we do hope that also this division will increase in popularity in the European Ultimate Scene with own international tournaments and national leagues! There is still 1 available spot in this division, which could be assigned to any federation able to send a master team (master age is 33+). We also plan to have a waiting list (details will follow) in order to give a second chance to teams who did not qualify for the XEUCF in the first instance. Farther more, the EUCR-CE and EUCR-NE are already fixed, the EUCR-W is under review, while we are still collecting applications for the EUCR-SW. If you are interested in submitting a bid, please send EFDF (bids2009 (at) efdf.org) you application with April 9th. EUCR-NE will be held in Tallinn (EST) on August 29th-30th (2 days). EUCR-CE will be held in Nürnberg (D) on August 28th-30th (2,5 days) only in the open division. Parallel to it, there will be a women tournament in the same location. Thanks a lot Oddi 2009-01-29: Dear European Federations Some of
you have already send EFDF (bids2009 (at) efdf.org) the list
of bids per division, which you would like to allocate for the XEUCF 2009
in Since we do not have unlimited space (especially in the open division) we do need to know within >>> FEB. 15th <<< how many
teams to expect in each division, so that we can make the central plan for the
EUCS and support your nation in the application of the EUCS format and
eligibility rules. If you
haven't sent this list yet, please provide the list before February 15th,
otherwise we cannot guarantee your nation any spot at the XEUCF!! The EUCRs
for the open divisions will be played around the last weekend of august
in ALL regions. EUCR-CE will be held in Nürnberg (D) on August 28th-30th
(2,5 days) only in the open division. Parallel to it, there will be a women
tournament in the same location. Dates of
the other EUCRs will be fixed by end of March. It is
planned that only teams qualified for the XEUCF in the open division will participate
to the various EUCRs. This means that the number of bids for the various EUCRs will
probably be less than the actual 16. It is up
to the regional committees to decide whether to extend the EUCR also to Open
teams who would have qualified, but are not going to play at the XEUCF in the
open division. The complete
list of the teams participating to the XEUCF must be defined BEFORE JUNE
1st (mainly
because of accommodation issues), so, if nations will have to make a
selection to decide who can go to According to the EUCF2008 results following bids are assigned for the open1 division (top16) at the XEUCF: NE 4 Thanks for
your cooperation Oddi
- XEUCF 2009 -London - Sept. 24-27 - Dear
European Ultimate Community, In 2009 a
new tournament format, called XEUCF will
be played instead of separate EUCC and EUCS. The XEUCF
combines in one tournament the benefits of the EUCC and the EUCS:
What is the XEUCF? XEUCF
means eXtended European Ultimate Championship Final
and it will be played as pilot in 2009. This is a
4 days (Thursday to Sunday) tournament, which will be played from Sept. 24th to 27th 2009
in The
tournament has 4 divisions: Open, Women, Mixed and Master. All
pitches will be at the same site and there will be space for about 100 teams. The winner
of each division will be crowned European Club Champion 2009. How can teams qualify for XEUCF? Whenever
possible the results of the national championship (EUCQ) 2009 will be considered for the national ranking and so for the
qualification to XEUCF. There are
different qualification steps between Open and the other divisions. Women/Mixed/Master
Division For these
divisions the qualification process is very similar to the EUCC one. Each
nation member of the EFDF will be allowed to send 1 team per division. Wild cards
will be given to nations according to their placements in the last WFDF and
EFDF competitions. Open The
successful EUCS format (http://www.eucs.efdf.org/) will be applied in the open
division, with 3 selection stages: EUCQ, EUCR and XEUCF. Teams, who
qualified for the EUCR, will be allowed to register to XEUCF (max 16 per
region) according to the EUCR bid allocation rules in each region. The
initial selection of the max 64 teams will be performed during EUCR and teams
registered for XEUCF will be grouped into at least 3 divisions (Open1 for the
top16, Open2, Open3, …). Bid allocation for the XEUCF-Open1 division is based
on the results of the EUCF2008. The CSC will decide how to distribute the bids
for the Open2, Open3, etc. division. There will
be a small overlapping between the divisions at XEUCF, so that for instance, a
team from the Open2 can finish max 9th, etc. The final
ranking of the XEUCF will be used to define the bid allocation for the EUCF2010
according to the standard EUCF Bidding Allocation System
(http://www.eucs.efdf.org/2008/eucfbids.html). What do federations need to do now? Federations
must deliver to the EUF Board (bids2009
(at) efdf.org) within February 15th
2009 the number of teams, which are interested in playing in
each division at XEUCF. Please
notice: No answer means that no team in any division
will come, so the bids pre-reserved for the nation will be offered to other
ones. Within March 15th 2009 the EUF Board
will communicate the number of bids each nation has in each division. In the
divisions where a selection at national/sectional level must be made, because a
nation as more interested teams than available spots, EUCQ (=National
Championship or ad-hoc tournament) should be played before May 31st 2009. If a
Nation has exactly as many bids for XEUCF as the teams interested in playing in
that division, no real selection is needed, so EUCQ can be played anytime
before EUCR (only for Open) or before Sept. 7th. The results will be
used for the XEUCF seeding. Sept. 7th 2009 is the last date when EUCQ2009 and
EUCR2009 results can be considered for the XEUCF. If it is
not possible to hold the EUCQ before the given deadlines, federations are
kindly asked to get in touch with the EUF Board (bids2009 (at) efdf.org) to find a solution. RCS will
provide as soon as possible the date and location of the EUCRs, so that Open
teams can plan with large advance these tournaments. Deadline summary: Feb. 15th
2009: Federation prove number of wished bids per division Mar. 15th
2009: EUF Board publish bids distribution in each division June 1st
2009: XEUCF registration deadline (not fixed yet) Aug. 2009:
EUCRs in all regions for the Open division Aug./Sept.
2009: XEUCF Final Payment Sept. 7th
2009: National/Regional seeding is defined. I hope
that this late publication of the EFDF calendar does not cause you too many
troubles in defining your national one. In name of
the EFDF/EUF and the CSC I wish you a Marry Christmas and an exiting & high
spirited Ultimate Season 2009 Ciao Oddi - EUCS –
Together for the growth of Ultimate in 2008-11-04:
European Ultimate Championship
Series
(EUCS)
This European tournament structure is establishing an annual European Ultimate Championship Series for open and women’s clubs. This annual tournament series allows top European clubs to compete against one another and crown a European club champion. The EUCS creates a base structure and calendar for the series and involve as many teams and nations and players as possible. The benefit of this tournament structure is to create better competition for the top European clubs and provide incentive for mid-level clubs to improve their games with the hope of making it to Finals (EUCFs). Europe has been divided into four geographic regions. Each nation (or group of nations if they are very small) may send a maximum number of qualified teams to its European Club Regional (EUCR) tournament. The ideal entry to an EUCR would be from Country’s nationals results. However a National Federation may also nominate its EUCR candidates. These teams compete at the EUCRs to advance to the European Club Finals (EUCFs). EUCR and EUCF tournaments will be standardized as much as possible in order to ensure fair seeding and important game-play throughout the tournaments. EUCR tournaments will be held from the second half of August to the first half of September and be centrally located in order to minimize travel times for regional teams. The EUCFs will be held in fall in a nation offering the best bid. Attention will be paid to excellent fields and agreeable weather. With the goal being to increase the level of club play in Europe a strict eligibility rule is in place, which encourage teams to work on new players, but still gives the chance to good talents playing in small teams to join the roster of larger ones and make precious experiences, which can be used for the development of their smaller teams.. The EUCS is run by a staff of volunteers with support from the EFDF Director and staff. Other volunteers essential to the operation of the Series include committee members who specialize in elements of competition such as rules, eligibility and tournament formats. This
site is hosted by the EFDF,
the European Flying Disc Federation and
all EUCS events are part of the EFDF Apartments in Prague is a major contributor to the EUCS |
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