European Ultimate Championship Series

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General

G1 Which event should be used as qualifier?

Player Eligibility

E1 What is the difference between the Eligibility Rules 2010 and the actual ones?

The main changes from the Rules used till 2010 are:

1.      the number of allowed additions is 3 for the open division and no more 5. With your approval we would like to reduce the number of additions in the women division from 5 to 3 as well.
The goal is to stimulate clubs to work on development of new own players.

2.      as a compromise we allow also players, who played the EUCR for a team, which did not qualify to EUCF, to be added to the roster of a qualified team.
The goal is to stimulate also middle level teams, who lost in the past their best players for better teams, to play at EUCR and make more international experience. The top players can still be added to the roster of the better team (if it qualifies) also after EUCR. This should bring more teams to EUCR and the level in the region should increase much faster.

3.      We officialized what all nations made already so far, that is, submitting the EUCR-Roster prior EUCR and playing the EUCQ with their national eligibility rules.
This also officializes the fact that some federations just focus on development in their national league, keeping the team size small on purpose, and that they have a loosen eligibility rule for teams who also want to play internationally.
Finally all the CSC needs to know from the national federations is
a) the final ranking of the EUCQ (independently if it is an ad hoc tournament or the national competition)
b) if there are players of a EUCS-Roster, who do not follow their national eligibility rules for teams who play internationally

E2 What is the difference between a Team and a Club?

A Team is a group of players, who enter the EUCS under the same roster.
There is no geographical or legal boundary to define a team.

A Club is a group of players, who regularly train together and develop as a group.
Normally a Club is a legal entity and is bound to a certain area, where trainings take place.
Normally players pay a membership fee to be part of a Club and are registered of the Club roster.

The CSC encourages Clubs to enter the Series, in order to stimulate the development for Ultimate in their area.

E3 Is it mandatory to submit a roster prior EUCR?

Yes. Roster must be submitted  within the term defined on the  EUCS webpage and must be certified by a Regional Series Committee (RSC) represenatative of the national federation.

E4 Can a player play on 2 different Qualifiers?

No, because of rule 3.2 .

E5 Can a player who doesn't play at Qualifier be placed on the Roster?

Sure! There is no regionality or club membership restriction for a EUCS Roster.
The only restriction is that one player can just be place on one roster.

E6 We are unable to send a team with players from only one club, but we could send a joined team. Are we allowed to participate to the EUCS?

The EUCS eligibility rules say that you have to define your team before the EUCR. 
This team must also play the EUCQ following the eligibility rules valid in that nation.
A national representative must certify that the submitted roster includes maximum 3 players, who don't belong to that team.
Within the Series a team can add up to 3 players.

If in your nation there is no real 7v7 national league on grass, which can be used as qualifier, then your nation is still allowed to nominate the teams, who qualifies for regional.
This is a general problem for women ultimate, where often there’s just one national team playing some tournaments abroad, but no real league with consolidated teams.
The roster for this team, which does not need to have any geographical or club restrictions, must be submitted prior EUCR.

We are continous that especially in developing countries, the team size in the league is kept small on purpose in order to have more teams and that the mainly focus in the league is on development of new players. These small teams cannot compete internationally with that size and with that average playing level.
In this case federations should either a different event as EUCQ and let teams to play with their large EUCS-roster there, or have own national eligibility rules for teams, who play internationally, like allowing teams to merge prior the submission of the EUCS-Roster.

E7 Is there a limit of players, who can be added to the roster and till when?

Up to 3 players can be added by the date defined by the CSC to the rosters, which was presented before EUCR.
These players can be taken from teams, who did not qualify to the next EUCS stage.

E8 Is it possible to get an exception of the eligibility rules and still be able to play at the EUCF ?

 the CSC does not allow any kind of exceptions for the eligibility rules.

E9: If a player has been initially rostered for a team (teamA), can he/she change team during the saison and play EUCR or EUCF with the new team (teamB)?

If teamA did not qualify to the next EUCS stage (EUCQ->EUCR or EUCR->EUCF), then the player is no more rostered and can be added to the roster of any other team, which qualified.
if teamA qualified and the player has been placed on the EUCS-roster of this team, then he is bound to teamA for the next round, otherwise can be added to the roster of teamB.

E11: Is it possible to have guest players in our team roster?

E12: We still have some uncertain players for our team roster. What should we do?
E13: who is going to approve our EUCR-Roster?

The EUCR rosters must be approved by the RSC.
Each national federation must have at least 1 representative in the RSC, whose task is also to check that the submitted rosters respect those used by that nation for the EUCQ, taking into consideration the specific national eligibility rules.
Starting from 2011 it will be mandatory that a national federation has at least 1 representative in the RSC, if teams of this nation want to play at EUCR. This means that without this precondition, no team from that nation will be admitted to the EUCR.   

E14: If a club has two multiple teams at EUCR, do they count as separate roster ?

Club is not equal Team.
Each Team participating in EUCR must have his own EUCR-roster.
If a club is able to field more teams at EUCR, they are considered by the CSC as completely indendent teams and additions are subject to the point 4.4 of the eligibility rule.
Both teams can qualify to EUCF.