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Quebec
New product in Quebec Written by: Nicolas Vanasse
This summer, the FQU will launch a new competitive format to help develop the smaller Ultimate communities in Quebec. This format is the 5 on 5 summer series. It all started due to these reasons:
1-We don’t see the smaller communities (under 100 members) in our outdoor 7 on 7 competitive events. 2-The major issue for those communities is that their players don’t feel they have enough experience to teach Ultimate and develop solid Ultimate fundamentals in their leagues.
We run several regular 7 on 7 beginner events through the summer season and they typically aren’t very well attended. We asked the smaller communities why they weren’t attending those events and the same reason came every time: “We can’t get enough players to drive four hours (Quebec is quite big… as is every province in Canada!) to play one weekend of Ultimate.”
This is why the Federation Québécoise d’Ultimate will launch the 5 on 5 summer series. The plan is to play mixed 5 on 5 on smaller fields. We will play 5-6 games during the weekend, which will give an opportunity for development-teams and players across the province. We’ll be running five events this summer (Montreal, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Rimouski, Gaspé) and the FQU will invite some high level players (Royal, Mephisto, Gecko) to coach and help the teams from the smaller communities.
By doing this, we will find a way to work with new senior players and apply the principles of Ultimate Canada LTAD model. This will help grow Ultimate and will potentially lead to more players from new communities competing in the 7 on 7 competitive circuit.
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Fruit Bowl action
Photo: Ahmed Dassouki
Atlantic Written by: Donnie McPhee
For the past 20 years, the last weekend in January means one thing to Ultimate players in the northeast, Fruit Bowl (Fredericton’s indoor Ultimate tournament). From its beginning back in 1995, experienced teams from established programs like Red Tide from Portland, Maine and WAX from Ottawa came to Fredericton to show local teams what the game should look like.
In return local teams showed these experienced team how Maritime players party. Not much has changed… except for the average level of play and the number of teams that participate. The venue is still the same and a few of the same players are still kicking around. Dan McConville originally played with Portland, now travels up with Maine’s Black Fly team. He missed a few years in the early 2000’s but has been a regular the past 4-5 years. *Donnie McPhee with the Host SPAWN club witnessed Ultimate for his first time back in 1995’s initial tournament and hasn’t missed one since.
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