Tuesday, September 8th, at 8 PM Eastern, join us for a Send it Back rewatch of the 2017 Pro Championships matchup between Minneapolis Drag’N Thrust and San Francisco Blackbird! Enjoy live commentary and analysis from Drag’N’s Erica Baken and Blackbird’s Mac Taylor.

The video is now available for all Ultiworld subscribers!

Labor Day weekend has, for the past few years, been one of the conclusive weekends of the club regular season. The Pro Championships wrapped up the elite club circuit’s sanctioned play, setting the table for the Club Series to commence. Relive some of the excitement with great games from all three divisions!

And stay tuned for more! We’re hoping to schedule another mixed division game for a Pro Championships Send it Back next week.

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A week after USA Ultimate made the decision to cancel all of their remaining Championship events in 2020, Ultimate Canada has followed suit. Affected events include the Canadian 4-on-4 Ultimate Championships (C4UC), the Canadian Eastern Indoor University Series: Kingston (CEIUS), as well as a previously discussed potential fall club event.

The organization cited health and safety concerns related to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic as the primary reason for these cancellations.

Join analyst Joe Marmerstein in the Ultiworld Film Room in this series teaching and discussing common pull plays in ultimate, spanning a variety of offensive systems. The fourth video in this series focuses on a cutter clearance play. Marmerstein covers how to run the play, what makes it effective, how to make adjustments in-game based on the conditions or defense, and how to play effective defense against this play.

Subscribers can watch Episode 4 here, or check out the entire catalog of Film Room analysis here.

Future videos in the series will be published every two weeks.

Veteran club and US National team coaches Bryan Jones and Alex “Dutchy” Ghesquiere enter the Ultiworld studio to analyze the 2019 US Open Women’s Final between Boston Brute Squad and Medellín Revolution.  They talk strategy, adjustments, and playmaking, and break down a lot of the little things where they either approve of the approach used or would have changed things up a bit.

Ultiworld subscribers can watch the breakdown here, or check out the entire catalog of Film Room analysis available for subscribers here.

The highly anticipated highlight reel featuring people of color in ultimate dropped this afternoon. Edited by Max Charles and Lili Gu, it’s four minutes of tremendous ultimate. Watch:

Highlight Reel: BIPOC Excellence in Ultimate

Raleigh’s Ring of Fire has qualified for club nationals 23 consecutive years, advancing to 8 semifinals and 1 final, but they have never won a title. The 2019 squad was positioned to change that, featuring young, experienced leaders and role players who grew up within the Triangle Ultimate system through high school, YCC, and college. Director Lindsay Soo explores their journey in the semifinal against Sockeye, as they confront past failures and attempt to blaze a new pathway to success.

The 23 minute documentary short is available now for all Ultiworld subscribers!

Usually, in the hot summer sun, we’d be out watching some of the club season’s best battle it out at the US Open. And getting treated to some the top youth players in the country at YCCs! While we don’t have a major club season tournament to prepare for this weekend, we’ll be hosting another Throwback weekend and watch some of the classics of tournaments past.

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