World Games Special: Roundup and Predictions

World Games Special

Hopefully you’ve followed the series and are up-to-date with all the teams competing in Cali, Colombia over the next week. If you missed any of them, you can find the pieces here.

The Opening Ceremony has already happened, and games start on Sunday. This should be a terrific tournament, and rumours are that there'll be large crowds for the Ultimate games.

Thanks to the amazing efforts of the Ultimate community and ulti.tv you will be able to watch all of the games: here! You can find the full schedule here. 
More live streaming links: 
http://core.enetres.net/CoreV1/Share/DEE56DFCB3E64BCC88376576A57D5481028?rnd=%27+Math.random%28%29

http://www.senalcolombia.tv/juegosmundiales2013/ 
(Click on senal en vivo ^^)

VOD at bottom of here.

GB’s games are:

vs Canada - Sunday, July 28th - 4pm,

vs Colombia - Sunday, July 28th - 10:10pm,

vs Japan - Monday, July 29th - 2:30pm,

vs Australia - Tuesday, July 30th - 1:10am,

vs USA - Tuesday, July 30th - 5:30pm,

3v4 – Tuesday, July 30th - 10pm,

1v2 - Wednesday, July 31st - 12am.

Amazing Score Reporting System for Ultimate at World Games 2013

We will have the opportunity to follow the games trough an incredible score reporting interface called WING.

It will give highly detailed stats of each player and team like: game time, time outs, goals, assists, D's, drops, pulls, touches during the game or during the tournament; also a fresh new tool which draws the disc trajectory. Plus player profiles, team roster and much more cool stuff. Here are some sneak peak screenshots:

and here is where you can find it: www.conceptoocho.com/wing

And finally – money where your mouth is time!

Finally, it feels like other countries are catching up to the traditional giants of ultimate, Canada and the USA. When only the top 13 players are selected from each nation, that effect is only magnified. For the first time, it feels like anyone can beat anyone – and that should make for a thoroughly exciting competition.

My predicted final standings for the tournament are

1. USA

2. Canada

3. Great Britain

4. Australia

5./6. Japan/Colombia (there is no placement game for these positions).

DP’s predictions (so hard to make these but here goes, prove me wrong please!) are

1. USA

2. Japan

3. Canada

4. Great Britain

5./6. Australia Columbia

What are yours? Comment below.