REGIONAL INTEREST 4. 2014-2015 4on4 indoor series
For the first time, our eight-tournament indoor circuit will likely be full at every single tournament. We’ll need to modify our original rules as we estimate a 180 teams competing this season. This means that nearly 25% of our membership is competitive. In order to satisfy the demand, we are about to change some selection criteria for the tournament and the score given to each competition.
5. The Montréal Royal
This is big for Quebec Ultimate. Jean-Lévy Champagne and Christian Mathieu, leaders of Odyssée, with seven others partners, launched the news. Rapidly, the newspapers took the lead and a couple of good articles were written. For Ultimate players all across Quebec, the implication of Royal in the community will be notable. They are already working with Mephisto in order to have a great 2014 season. They are partnered up with the Association d’ultimate de Montréal and the Federation quebecoise d’ultimate in or to help the junior competitive development.
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Chiac Grand Prix > Jamie Fitzgerald
In the inaugural season of the Chiac Grand Prix (Chiac being a variety of Acadian French heavily mixed and structured with English) Ultimate New Brunswick is hoping to foster the development of the local Ultimate scene in each of its member cities as well as to provide a goal for more competitive players. The indoor season has historically been a bit of an off-season for many Maritime Ultimate teams. Those players who look for more opportunities to continue playing competitive Ultimate, hone their skills, or just play as much as possible, have either had to stick to league or travel to Quebec. Ultimate NB is anticipating that this new series will fill the void that has been left for competitive and recreational players alike.
The format of the 4v4 series was modelled in part after the Quebec indoor series that New Brunswick teams have been attending the past several years. The Quebec series has been extremely successful and has grown significantly since its inception and Ultimate NB is hoping the same will happen (to a lesser degree) with the Grand Prix. The rules and guidelines have been scaled back from the Quebec version to hopefully encourage teams from smaller communities, who might have a difficult time meeting more stringent parameters, to participate.
Teams who decide to join the series are asked to submit their roster of 12 players at the beginning of the season and must retain a certain percentage of that roster for each tournament they attend in order to qualify for the spirit and series points available. Ultimate NB will oversee the rosters, collect points and then provide the spirit and overall Champions prizes at the conclusion of the series. Points are allocated based on how a team finishes (spirit and placement) and each team receives points regardless of how many teams are in the tournament.
The Grand Prix comprises of one tournament each month during the indoor series, which runs from November to April, and although Ultimate NB administers the series, January’s tournament is C4P that runs out of Halifax, NS. Teams are not required to play in each of the tournaments to be eligible to collect points or win the series, so teams from all over Eastern Canada are encouraged to participate in whichever tournaments they choose (so long as they pay the extra series fee).
As with any new endeavor, there are bound to be some bumps along the road, but Ultimate NB is confident that the Chiac Grand Prix will be a success and will help to strengthen the Ultimate scene in the Maritimes.
The first Canadian Atlantic University Ultimate Championships took place in Fredericton, NB this October. There were five teams that competed in the event.
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