attribution is better than Sarah’s because improve as a player and the team loses the players can make. They allow players to feel
it saves him from getting as upset after opportunity to develop as a unit. responsible and accountable for the factors
the loss. Be careful here. Brian’s and Compare this to Sarah who thinks that that affect performance and gives them
Sarah’s attributions may impact their her ability to get layout ds can vary (i.e., hope that they can make these factors
personal improvement and their teams’ it’s unstable) and that it’s up to her to come out in their favour in the future.
development in very different ways determine whether or not she lays out (i.e., Now let’s go back to the attributions you
(especially if they have a habit of relying it’s internal and controllable). The same came up with earlier. Do they infuse you
on their respective types of attributions). sense of personal responsibility that got her with a sense of personal responsibility over
Brian thinks that his teammates’ handling upset in the first place will also drive her to the game’s outcome? How might they
skills aren’t really going to get any better work extra hard on laying out in practices have impacted your motivation and desire
this season (i.e., they’re stable) and that so that she can expect to make the bid to keep working on your game? Increasing
there’s nothing he can do about it (i.e., it’s the next time she gets an the opportunity awareness of your attributions and the
uncontrollable). As a result, he expects in a game. As a result, not only does willingness to adapt those attributions can
that this factor will influence his team’s she improve as a player, but her effort in go a long way in helping to ensure that you
performance in future games in the practice is a great example for teammates stay fired up and focused on improvement
same way that it did at Nationals. If this to emulate. throughout the whole season.
bleak outlook stays with him, then it may In the long-run Sarah’s attributions are John Gotwals is a sport psychology
cause him to become frustrated with much more beneficial for her development consultant and assistant professor at
his teammates and his motivation to and her team’s improvement than Brian’s. Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario.
attend and work hard at practice may be In fact, internal, unstable, but controllable Over the past ten years he has competed
jeopardized. This is a lose-lose situation attributions like Sarah’s are generally the at the national level with open teams out of
because Brian loses an opportunity to most adaptive types of attribution that Edmonton, Vancouver, and Dallas, TX.
The Origin of the “Quebec City Rule”
By Marie-eve ParaDis
By where does the name Quebec City montreal alias sherbrooke alias Quebec
rule come from? a little History… City rule?
This article was condensed from a blog The first time the number of pulls was The Quebec City rule traces its origins
written by Sébastien Labbé and edited by officially restricted to two per game in back to a no-pull rule adopted by the AUM
Greg Kelm. The author would like to thank Quebec City was during the February 2004 (Association de Ultimate de Montréal) for its
Anne-Marie Lalonde, Gavin Thompson, Coup de Foudre tournament. The Fabulous 2001-2002 indoor winter league in Laval.
Frederic Gagnon, Martin Arsenault, Sonia Flying Flamingoes, an Ottawa team The end zones at the sport complex where
Krajicek and Patrick Duchaine for their participating in Quebec City’s Mars Attaque this league’s games were held did not cross
contribution to this article. tournament in March of that year, really the entire length of the field, making it
In Quebec City’s indoor 4-on-4 league, liked the idea of not pulling after each point. impossible for the teams to line up for a pull
a rule has been adopted to allow only two Shortly thereafter, the Ottawa-Carleton at the start of every point.
pulls per game: one at the first point and indoor league implemented this rule, which The Sherbrooke indoor league then
the other at halftime. After all other points, was first referred to as the Quebec City modified this no-pull rule, thereby
the attacking team starts with possession Variant, but eventually became known as introducing the current version of the two-
of the disc along the end zone at the the Quebec City Rule. The French-speaking pull rule. The FQU (Fédération québécoise
point where the disc had been caught Quebec City indoor league (AJJUQ) then de Ultimate) refers to the Quebec City
for the previous point. The remaining adopted the English version of the name to Rule as the Montreal Alias Sherbrooke Alias
players on the attacking team position designate this rule. Quebec City rule on its website.
themselves on the field, often in a stack, The Quebec City Rule was then imple-
with the opposing team positioning mented by the AJJUQ indoor league in the But What’s in a name?
themselves according to their defensive fall of 2004. Should the Quebec City Rule be renamed
strategy. This rule, known to many as the “Montreal Alias Sherbrooke Alias
the Quebec City Rule, even has its own Quebec City Rule” or even the “Province of
Wikipedia entry. Quebec Rule”? Only time will tell!
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