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Welcome to the
home of the European Ultimate Championship Series (EUCS).
NEWS
2011-02-18:
EUCRs dates and locations
Dear European Ultimate Federations,
I'm
happy to annouce that all Regional Committees succeeded in defining the
dates and locations of the various EUCRs. The best Open and Women teams
of these tournaments will advance to the EUCF in Frankfurt (GER) on September 28th-30th.
EUCR-W: Southampton (GRB) on August 25-27
EUCF2012 Bids:
Open Elite: 3
Open Challenger: 2
Women: 2
EUCR-S: Imola (ITA) on August 25-26
EUCF2012 Bids:
Open Elite: 2
Open Challenger: 3
Women: 2
EUCR-C: Nurnberg (GER) on August 25-26
EUCF2012 Bids:
Open Elite: 1
Open Challenger: 5
Women: 2
EUCR-E: Maribor (SLO) on August 3-5
EUCF2012 Bids:
Open Elite: 1
Open Challenger: 3
Women: 2
EUCR-N: Tallinn (EST) on Sept. 1-2
EUCF2012 Bids:
Open Elite: 1
Open Challenger: 3
Women: 2
IMPORTANT:
National Federation (in the following just NF) are responsible for the payment of the deposit for the EUCRs and for the approval and the submission of the EUCS rosters of their teams!
A detailed description how the FFindr-based rostering system for the Championship Series works will be sent in spring.
This is the list of activities you (that is, your representative in the
Regional Series Committees) are supposed to perform and the due
deadlines.
Please notice that these deadlines might slightly be modified by the
single RSC Head Coordinators, if there have been already previous
agreements with the Tournament Directors of the EUCRs.
- Latest 10 weeks prior EUCR the NF must accept/deny the assigned number of bids in each division.
- Latest 8 weeks prior EUCR the NF must centrally pay the deposit for all accepted bids to the EUCR Tournament Director.
- Latest 6 weeks prior EUCR the NF must submit the list of the teams participating in the EUCR in each division, giving at least 2 contacts per team.
- Latest 4 weeks prior EUCR the single teams must pay all remaining fees to the EUCR Tournament Director.
- Latest 3 weeks prior EUCR the NF must submit the approved EUCS rosters
for all their teams.
Please notice that on the roster all team members should be listed and
not only those who will participate in the EUCS. Any change
to these rosters after this date will be automatically considered an
addition (see the EUCS Eligibilty Rules).
Any
communication must be done by your representatives in the various
Regional Series Committees (RSCs) per email. Emails must be sent to the RSC, with the EUCR Tournament Director in CC.
The list of the various national representatives can be found in the
Regional subpages.
Thanks a lot to all members of the various regional committees, who
made a great work in planing and defining the EUCRs! With you as active
link between the EUCS Committees and National Federations we have
a very efficient and effective process!
Happy EUCS!
Ciao
Oddi
2011-11-25:
EUCF
2012: Frankfurt on Sept. 28th-30th
Dear European Ultimate Community
The EUF Central Series Committee is proud to annouce that the EUCF
2012 in the division Open (24 teams) and Women (10 teams) will take
place from Sept. 28th to 30th 2012 in Frankfurt (Germany).
This bid had been declared as best among five very interesting ones.
The tournament will be in the same location of the Open+Women German Championship 2011.
The venue offers 8 high quality fields all at one site and the
possibility to camp or sleep in a gym directly at the fields. Various
accommodations from low-costs up to luxury are in the surroundings.
The Frankfurt Internation Airport is just 15mins away.
The team fee has been set at 470 € which will be due latest 10 days
after the Regional Tournament (EUCR) or not later than Sept. 10th.
Further infomation will be provided in 2012.
The regional Committees are also already working of the definition
of the EUCRs, which will be annouced hopefully in short.
get ready for an other intensive EUCS season!
for the CSC
Oddi
- EUF Chairperson -
2011-10-12:
EUCF
2011: Bruges - Final Results
The European
Ultimate CHampionship Finals took place in Bruges (BEL) from Friday Sept. 30th to Sunday Oct. 2nd.
We had a wonderful weather with peaks of 26 °C and 8 high quality fields, which allowed teams to play at their best.
The new European Champions are
Flying Angel Bern (SUI)
and
Icini (UK)
The Spirit was in general very good.
Congratulations to Clapham Ultimate (UK) and to Eyecatchers (AUT) for showing the best one!
Final ranking in the open division :
1. Flying Angels Bern
2. Clapham Ultimate
3. Chevron Action Flash
4.
Skogs Ultimate
5. Bad Skid
6. Freespeed
7. Silence
8. Brighton
Ultimate
9. Heidees
10. CUSB La Fotta
11. Gentle
12. 7
Schwaben
13. Fire of London
14. Helsinki Ultimate
15. Ragnarok
16.
Ultimate Vibration
17. Friselis
18. Fusion
19. TheBigEZ
20. Mor
Ho!
21. Cambo Cakes
22. EMO
23. LOL
24. Raging Seagulls DC
Final ranking in the ladies division :
1. Iceni
2. Woodchicas
3. Lotus
4. E6
5. Hot Beaches
6.
SYC
7. Heidees
8. Primavera Olandese
9. Eyecatchers
10. CUSB DDT
All Results and Spirit Ranking:
Open+Women Results
Open Spirit
Women Spirit
2011-06-26:
EUCF
2012: Call for bids
The European
Ultimate Federation opens officially the submission of bids for the organization
of the European Ultimate Championship Final (EUCF)
2012.
Deadline for bid preliminary submission:
Sept. 30th 2011.
By this date
we need to have at least a rough description of the bid and a preliminary
budget, which the EUF committee will define in details together with the
bidders.
The call for
bids for the EUCRs will be opened soon by the Regional Series Committees
(RSC).
Send bids,
requests or questions to: csc /at/ eucs.efdf.org
Looking
forward to receiving many competitive bids!
Ciao
Oddi
- CSC chair
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EUCF 2012 Tournament requirements:
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Tournament
length:
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3 full
days (team arrival Thursday evening, departure
Sunday 17:00).
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Date:
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Target Date
is Oct.5th-7th. As an alternative the weekend before or after can be
considered.
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Number of
Teams:
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24 Open teams and 10
Women teams.
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Number of
Players:
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In the previous events
the average number of players was between 15 and 17, not including
guests.
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Venue:
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Top level Ultimate can be
played only on top level fields, both from the grass quality, from the size and
security zones.
8 regular sized
fields (100m x 37m + 5m restrain lines around) are
necessary.
As a general rule just 1
Ultimate field fits in a football field. Additionally the goals must be removed
or protected, for the safety of the players.
Having all pitches on 1
site is an asset.
Having a grand stand for
showcase games is an asset.
Please add in the bid a
google map link of the venue(s) and describe the grass
quality.
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Accommodation:
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At least 1 low budget
accommodation must be offered.
Price range for the
various accommodations must be indicated in the budget.
Please add in the bid a
google map link of the accommodation and the distance to the
venue(s).
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Food:
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At least breakfast (3
days) and dinner (2 days) must be provided.
Drinking water must be
available at each pitch.
Please indicate where and
how you plan to provide meals and the indicative
costs.
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Reachability:
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Indicate how the
tournament location can be reached (distance to airports, public transportation
system,…).
If a shuttle service is
necessary between accommodation and venue(s) indicate the planned costs and how
it will be organized.
Indicate if you plan a
pickup service from the next Airport / Train
Station.
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Media
Visibility:
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The first goal for a
tournament organization must be that the customers (=the players) get what they
came for: good regular fields, smooth organization of the
competition.
Secondary EUF events can
be used by local Ultimate associations to get a better visibility which should
help getting sponsors and, on the middle term, new players.
Please indicate if and
how you plan to increase the tournament visibility and which budget you reserve
for this.
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Gifts/Trophies:
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Medals and Trophies will
be paid out of the EUF fee.
Spirit of the Game
Trophies must be covered by the tournament budget or by
sponsors.
A tournament gift per
player is not necessary and should be considered only if covered by a
sponsor.
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Budget:
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As a reference consider
that the previous EUCFs had a budget of about 50-60€ per player per day,
including accommodation, food (HB), player’s fee and share of the team fee. For
the budget plan, please use the EUCF template.
We want to make clear
that people, who work hard on these events, should receive some reasonable
payment.
The EUF committee want to
make sure that it is able to get very clear visibility of all the costs; that
costs are reasonable, and that we help make sure players don’t pay for things
that they might prefer not to have if given the choice.
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2011-05-15:
EUCRs dates and locations
Dear European Ultimate Federations,
I'm
happy to annouce that all Regional Committees succeeded in defining the
dates and locations of the various EUCRs. The best Open and Women teams
of these tournaments will advance to the EUCF in Bruges(B) on October 1st-3rd.
EUCR-W: Southampton (UK) on August 20-21
EUCR-S: Nantes (F) on September 10-11
EUCR-C: Nurnberg (D) on Sept. 3-4
EUCR-E: Maribor (SLO) on July 1-3
EUCR-N: Stockholm (S) on Sept. 3-4
IMPORTANT:
National Federation (in the following just NF) are responsible for the payment of the deposit for the EUCRs and for the approval and the submission of the EUCS rosters of their teams!
This is the list of activities you (that is, your representative in the
Regional Series Committees) are supposed to perform and the due
deadlines.
Please notice that these deadlines might slightly be modified by the
single RSC Head Coordinators, if there have been already previous
agreements with the Tournament Directors of the EUCRs.
- Latest 10 weeks prior EUCR the NF must accept/deny the assigned number of bids in each division.
- Latest 8 weeks prior EUCR the NF must centrally pay the deposit for all accepted bids to the EUCR Tournament Director.
- Latest 6 weeks prior EUCR the NF must submit the list of the teams participating in the EUCR in each division, giving at least 2 contacts per team.
- Latest 4 weeks prior EUCR the single teams must pay all remaining fees to the EUCR Tournament Director.
- Latest 3 weeks prior EUCR the NF must submit the approved EUCS rosters for all their teams using this template.
Please notice that on the roster all team members should be listed and
not only those how will participate in the EUCS. In the "Addition"
column you have to mark the players who cannot be considered part of
the EUCS Team according to _your_ national eligibility system. Any change to these rosters after this date will be automatically considered an addition (see the EUCS Eligibilty Rules).
Any
communication must be done by your representatives in the various
Regional Series Committees (RSCs) per email. Emails must be sent to the RSC, with the CSC (csc/at/eucs.efdf.org) and the EUCR Tournament Director in CC.
The list of the various national representatives can be found in the
Regional subpages as well as the Tournament Director of each EUCR.
As you can see, we still have some vacant positions, especially as
representative for the women division. It is useless to say how
important it is that women discuss and take position on topics
concerning the special needs and the development of the women division
in Europe!
Thanks a lot to all members of the various regional committees, who
made a great work in planing and defining the EUCRs! With you as active
link between the EUCS Committees and National Federations we have
a very efficient and effective process!
Happy EUCS!
Ciao
Oddi
2011-02-06:
Dear European Ultimate Federations,
The CSC was able to make the next important step in the complex planning of the EUCS season 2011!
We are very happy to announce that the EUCF 2011 will be played in the city of Bruges, Belgium, from Sept. 30th to Oct. 2nd.
As
decided with the new EUCS structure, the EUCF 2011 will be played by 24
Open teams (divided in 8 Elite and 16 Challenger) and 10 Women ones.
Please check the various regional subpages in order to see how EUCF bids are distributed among the regions.
The
CSC assigned the EUCF to a very experience organizing committee. For 19
years the Bruges' Ultimate club Freezzz Beezzz has been running Tom's
Tourney, what has become one of the most important and competitive
tournaments in Western Europe. In order to get a better insight of the
venue and the organization standards, please check the Tom's Tourney (www.tomstourney.be) website and the videos.
The
venue consists of 9 top quality football fields all on one site. Since
one Ultimate field will be made per football field, there will be plenty
of space for warming up and for spectators, still keeping a 5m safety
area on the sidelines. Please notice that the poles at the end of the
fields cannot be removed and the safety distance won’t be 5m from them.
Fields will be of regular length with a tolerance of maximum 4%. For the
safety of the players the poles will be protected and the goal nets
removed.
We
are still looking for bidders for the EUCR-C, EUCR-S and EUCR-N, which
must be run between beginning of July and beginning of September. If you
have a suitable location with 6 good quality Ultimate fields, please
contact us asap.
The bidding process for the EUCR-W and EUCR-E has already been closed. Announcements about these tournaments will follow soon.
Looking forward to another great EUCS season!
Ciao
Oddi
- CSC Chair -
2011-01-11:
Results of the vote about the new EUCS Regional Structure for 2011
Dear European Ultimate Federations,
Thank you very much for the wide attendance at the voting for the EUCS 2011!
These were the federations entitled to send a vote:
| Nation |
Region |
| Belgium |
C |
| Denmark |
C |
| Germany |
C |
| Holland |
C |
| Luxemburg |
C |
| Austria |
E |
| Croathia |
E |
| Czeck Rep. |
E |
| Hungary |
E |
| Moldova |
E |
| Poland |
E |
| Slovenia |
E |
| Slowakia |
E |
| Ukraine |
E |
| Estonia |
N |
| Finland |
N |
| Latvia |
N |
| Lituania |
N |
| Norway |
N |
| Russia |
N |
| Sweden |
N |
| France |
S |
| Ireland |
S |
| Israel |
S |
| Italy |
S |
| Portugal |
S |
| Spain |
S |
| Switzerland |
S |
| UK |
W |
Here are the results:
| Votes |
20 |
| Attendance |
68,97% |
Question 1: do you accept the new EUCS
structure as
defined in the concept?
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Yes |
No |
Abstentions |
| Q1 |
18 |
1 |
1 |
The new EUCS structure with the regions, the enlarged EUCF and the new eligibility is officially approved!!
Question 3.2 of the concept: Women Eligibility
Rule.
Do you want Option 3.2.1 or 3.2.2 of the concept? Your vote is
binding for the CSC.
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3.2.1 |
3.2.2 |
Abstentions |
| Q2 |
5 |
13 |
2 |
The women eligibility rule will be like the one for Open, but 5 additions will be allowed prior EUCF.
Question 4.1 of the concept: Open EUCF Format
Which format do you think is the best for the EUCF in the Open
division? (4.1.1/ 4.1.2/4.1.3)
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4.1.1 |
4.1.2 |
4.1.3 |
Abstentions |
| Q3 |
7 |
5 |
4 |
4 |
We will check with the
EUCF tournament organizer, which schedule fits better, taking into
consideration that federations rather prefer less games.
Question 4.2 of the concept: Women EUCF Format
Which format do you want for the EUCF in the
women division? (4.2.1/4.2.2)
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4.2.1 |
4.2.2 |
Abstentions |
| Q4 |
15 |
1 |
4 |
The women division at the EUCF will be of 10 teams and played on 3 days.
for the CSC
Oddi
- chair -
2010-12-09:
New EUCS Region Structure for 2011!!
Dear European Ultimate Federations,
After 5 successful years of EUCS, it is time to
look back and evaluate what
is positive and what we should change in order to make it better.
We identified
3 main areas which we wanted to analyze:
- the regions
- the
format of the EUCF in the
open and in the women division
- the
eligibility rule
This is the final
concept for the EUCS starting from 2011, which we want you to
vote on.
We added also a “what’s new”
and a FAQ section on this
site, in order to make it easier for you to understand the improvements
we
made.
Please send by
December 31st
your official
answer to the following questions to the email address
csc(at)eucs.efdf.org:
- Question 1: do you accept the new EUCS
structure as
defined in the concept? (YES/NO)Answering NO, means that you want the EUCS
exactly as it was in 2010.
If and only if
you voted YES to Question1, we would
need to know by you your official position about some issues, where we
could
not reach a consensus within the Central Series Committee.
- Question 3.2 of the concept: Women Eligibility
Rule.
Do you want Option 3.2.1 or 3.2.2 of the concept? Your vote is
binding for the CSC.
- Question 4.1 of the concept: Open EUCF Format
Which format do you think is the best for the EUCF in the Open
division? (4.1.1/ 4.1.2/4.1.3)
Please notice that our vote will provide only a ranking for the
different options, which will be considered by the CSC when defining
the schedule, taking also into consideration possible venue constraints.
- Question 4.2 of the concept: Women EUCF Format
Which format do you want for the EUCF in the
women division? (4.2.1/4.2.2)
Your vote is binding for the CSC.
Since EUCR rosters must be approved by the RSC,
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.
Please send us asap the contact
details of your official representative(s), who
will become active members of one of the five Regional Series
Committees.
Thanks a lot for your precious contribution!
For the CSC
Oddi
-chair-
2010-10-23:
EUCF 2011: Call for bids
The European Ultimate Federation opens
officially the submission of bids
for the organization of the European Ultimate Championship
Final (EUCF) 2011.
Deadline for bid preliminary
submission: Nov. 23th 2010.
By this date we need to have at least a rough
description of the bid and a
preliminary budget, which the EUF committee will define in details
together
with the bidders.
The call for bids for the EUCRs will be opened
soon by the Regional Series
Committees (RSC).
Being the Beach Worlds this year on the traditional weekend of the
EUCRs, these
tournaments must be likely played before it.
Each RSC will define the best date taking into consideration
the calendar
of the member countries.
Send bids, requests or questions to: csc
/at/ eucs.efdf.org
Looking forward to receiving many competitive
bids!
Ciao
Oddi
- CSC chair -
EUCF 2011 Tournament requirements:
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Tournament length:
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3 full days (team arrival Thursday evening, departure
Sunday 17:00). It is at the moment under discussion if the women
competition will be of 2 or 3 days as well. In your bid, please
consider 3 days for the moment.
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Date:
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Target Date is Sept. 30th-Oct.2nd.
As an alternative the weekend before or after can be considered.
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Number of Teams:
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We are planning to extend the Open and
potentially also the Women division. Details will be announced soon.
Bidders should consider a max. of 24 Open teams and 12 Women
teams.
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Number of Players:
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In the previous events the average number of
players was between 15 and 17, not including guests.
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Venue:
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Top level Ultimate can be played only on top
level fields, both from the grass quality, from the size and security
zones.
8 regular sized fields (100m x 37m + 5m
restrain lines around) are necessary.
As a general rule just 1 Ultimate field fits in a football field.
Additionally the goals must be removed, for the safety of the players.
Having all pitches on 1 site is an asset.
Having a grand stand for showcase games is an asset.
Please add in the bid a google map link of the venue(s) and describe
the grass quality.
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Accommodation:
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At least 1 low budget accommodation must be
offered.
Price range for the various accommodations must be indicated in the
budget.
Please add in the bid a google map link of the accommodation and the
distance to the venue(s).
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Food:
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At least breakfast (3 days) and dinner (2 days)
must be provided.
Drinking water must be available at each pitch.
Please indicate where and how you plan to provide meals and the
indicative costs.
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Reachability:
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Indicate how the tournament location can be
reached (distance to airports, public transportation
system,…).
If a shuttle service is necessary between accommodation and venue(s)
indicate the planned costs and how it will be organized.
Indicate if you plan a pickup service from the next Airport / Train
Station.
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Media Visibility:
|
The first goal for a tournament organization
must be that the customers (=the players) get what they came for: good
regular fields, smooth organization of the competition.
Secondary EUF events can be used by local Ultimate associations to get
a better visibility which should help getting sponsors and, on the
middle term, new players.
Please indicate if and how you plan to increase the tournament
visibility and which budget you reserve for this.
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Gifts/Trophies:
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Medals and Trophies will be paid out of the EUF
fee.
Spirit of the Game Trophies must be covered by the tournament budget or
by sponsors.
A tournament gift per player is not necessary and should be considered
only if covered by a sponsor.
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Budget:
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As a reference consider that the previous EUCFs
had a budget of about 50€ per player per day, including
accommodation, food (HB), player’s fee and share of the team
fee. For the budget plan, please use the EUCF template.
We want to make clear that people, who work hard on these events,
should receive some reasonable payment.
The EUF committee want to make sure that it is able to get very clear
visibility of all the costs; that costs are reasonable, and that we
help make sure players don’t pay for things that they might
prefer not to have if given the choice.
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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 five 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 ideally 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
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2011 EUCS Rules
NOTE:
All Email addresses on
these pages have replaced the
@ symbol with an (at) to
prevent
spam!
2011 CSC Committee
csc(at)eucs.efdf.org
2011 CSC Committee
csc(at)eucs.efdf.org
Andrea
"Oddi" Furlan, Chair
Ruediger Veitl, DE, C
Sandra Marx, DE, C
Katka Svobodova, CZ, E
Gabor Borross, H, E
Kristjan Loorits, EST, N
Alina Dunaeva RUS, N
David Moser, CH, S
Haude Hermand, FR, S
Si Hill, UK, W
Aura Mackenzie, UK, W
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