Nationals is only a couple weeks away and there are currently 7 Women's teams competing if you are not playing Mixed and can get a few friends together to form a team, go! It's a great tournament and worth the experience! So enter a team now and make it a full on 8 (or more) team division, maybe even cause an upset!
Regionals has happened, read our coverage and also read how the Open Nationals brackets had to be amended giving us the first round games ready to go!
Benji writes about personal bias on the field in Understanding Ultimate.
In the ever present debate of USAU (observers) vs WFDF (let the players decide), Ultiworld have published an open letter to WFDF calling for observers in making line calls and sorting disputes at major WFDF events from 2014 written by one of the USAU Junior Coaches . A great read, sparking many comments; what do you think about it?
The German made ultimate film "The Invisible String" is available from amazon.de, sounds like it is amazing so go grab one and also looking forward to the "Flatball" documentary in October!
Finally this week has been the European Youth Ultimate Championship in Cologne, Germany. Great Britain have been fairing well and the 4 squads today will start by playing:
Junior Open - QF vs Switzerland [Finished 4th]
Junior Women - 5-8 Semi vs Czech Republic [Finished 7th]
U17 Open - 6W's last pool game vs Sweden [Finished 1st: GOLD]
U17 Women - SF vs Austria [Finished 3rd: BRONZE]
Full results can be found on the ultiorganizer. A special mention goes out to the U17 Open squad who went 9-1 down to Austria, then 14-7 down and game point to comeback and win in sudden death 15-14. Watch their triumphant final score and en masse celebration, keep it up GB!
Keep reading and commenting away! DP @ tSG.
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