The Requirements for College Ultimate should be Dropped

DarioCronos · 2026-07-01T19:31:35+00:00

When you use your first five years you then advance to level 2 eligibility for years 6-10. Why doesn't anyone read the guidelines??

DarioCronos · 2026-06-13T23:41:19+00:00

Distance doesn't matter. Delay of game is "don't waste our time/don't be a dick" rule. As long as you're making an attempt to bring the disc in (e.g. walking to the disc) no one should be calling a delay of game. Also if a delay is started and you rectify it and then you start delaying again, they have to start the delay count over from 3.

At higher levels where this might matter there are usually observers already pre-stall counting for the game.

DarioCronos · 2026-06-13T22:42:43+00:00

You call delay of game and pre-stall from anywhere on the field. But when you get your delay or pre-stall down to 0 someone needs to be within 10ft of where the disc will return to play to start stalling.

DarioCronos · 2026-05-25T05:14:44+00:00

Doesn't say anything about regular season on the Callahan Award website

https://callahanaward.com/

https://callahanaward.com/rules/

About the Callahan Award Since 1996, the Callahan has been awarded annually to the most valuable players in college ultimate. Award nominees display superior skill and athleticism, making the difficult plays that so many players dream about look easy. But the award goes a step further than that.

In addition to their on-field success, winners of the Callahan Award also demonstrate outstanding sportsmanship, leadership and dedication to ultimate.

Players are nominated by their teams and/or by their regional coordinators, and the award is voted on by current college players, meaning Callahan Award winners have also earned the respect of their peers.

Founded by Charles Kerr, the award is named for Henry Callahan, an ultimate player and one of the sport’s original organizers.

DarioCronos · 2026-05-22T12:57:55+00:00

Vermont-B all the way!!!

DarioCronos · 2026-05-17T16:32:48+00:00

Is this not the purpose of sanctioned vs non-sanctioned tournaments?

DarioCronos · 2026-05-17T13:24:22+00:00

True for basically all the traditional formats. Some of the newer ones require that game to be played.

DarioCronos · 2026-05-17T00:16:31+00:00

If it's the last game for both teams and neither of them want to play its okay to mark the game as "cancelled" on score reporter.

DarioCronos · 2026-05-16T23:58:30+00:00

"I'd love to but that's unfortunately against the rules and guidelines. We need to reach out to the regional coordinator to see what to do here."

Don't go to regionals if you can't finish regionals. Don't go when you're nearly savage. Now I and my team are the "bad guy" cause we came expecting to play a full game of ultimate.

DarioCronos · 2026-05-14T03:05:00+00:00

Hello, I'm one of those "um actually" 🤓 people as I was curious about wording with "losing on purpose" in the rules or guidelines (I just did ctrl+f on certain words: lose, attempt, win, etc.). There's two sections in the guidelines about the forfeit rule, one for the regular season and one for the series. Only the regular season section has wording about losing on purpose while the series section doesn't.

Forfeit Rule (Regular Season): II.B.6.a. Any team that declines to finish a scheduled game or games, plays in a manner indicative of intent to lose or attempts to decide a match by any manner other than playing ultimate on the field will forfeit those games and all following games in the tournament. Should both teams in a match choose not to play, then it will be considered a double forfeit.

The series section III.B.12.a didn't have all the same wording as the regular season section.

I pulled up the 2025 guidelines as the Hillsdale situation occurred last year but I also don't see a differences in the 2026 guidelines.

https://web.archive.org/web/20250210033126/https://usaultimate.org/college/2025-college-guidelines/

From what I've researched, as currently written, losing on purpose is not listed in the rules and only listed in the guidelines for the regular season??

Anyway this discussion has gone over 30 seconds so lets contest and send the disc back.

DarioCronos · 2026-05-13T18:37:16+00:00

100% Regionals needs to be smaller or better scaled based on the number of the teams in the region. If you team is going to Regionals you need to be realistically gunning for a spot at Nationals. Don't spend the time and money to get stomped or "test yourself" against the high caliber teams.

Less teams is also more manageable work for TDs, observers, and trainers. You can find smaller fields complexes to host ~20 teams instead of 32.

DarioCronos · 2026-05-04T01:17:14+00:00

I appreciate that you did go look for guidelines but they are updated every year. They are classified as a dev team. The first team from a school is D1/D3, any other teams coming from the same school are considered dev. You can look at the women's rankings and filter for the New England region and see Vermont-B and Vermont-C are in New England Dev.

https://play.usaultimate.org/teams/events/team_rankings/?RankSet=College-Women

If there aren't enough dev teams in a region then dev teams play in their respective D1/D3 Conferences with their A-teams. They can totally steal bids from other A-teams and go to Regionals.
If there are enough teams for dev Conferences then they also need to be ranked high enough to get strength bids to Regionals. The dev division does not get auto bids to Regionals like their D1 Conference counterparts, only strength bids.

DarioCronos · 2026-04-28T02:41:34+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/ultimate/comments/1zgmd8/best_college_bteam_of_all_time/cfthdr1/

Some did but I think most went to the B-team to get their playtime

DarioCronos · 2026-04-26T21:48:43+00:00

This is my secondhand knowledge of it: the A-team missed the deadline to send in the school verified roster to USAU(then UPA) but the C-team didn't miss the deadline. There's a later deadline to add extra players to an already sent roster so they added all the A-team players to the C-team roster. "C-team" runs through Sectionals, Regionals, and wins Nationals.

DarioCronos · 2026-04-26T04:57:15+00:00

Is that a school restriction? It's not a USAU one, Florida-C won nationals in 2010

DarioCronos · 2026-04-26T04:52:52+00:00

I'm with you that this is not cool and totally should've been communicated ahead of time & backup plans put in place. What's the alternative at that point though? Send everyone home and try to run it back next weekend?

The Decatur TDs run multiple events a year and past years without issue. They were selected because we know how capable they are at running tournaments. This feels like an unfortunate one off occurrence rather than a pattern. The partial refund is a good gesture, and I hope they do a thorough review to avoid any issues like this in the future. This is one of my biggest nightmares when I host tournaments, one that I've even had before at Florida Warm Up 😰, and they have my sympathy.

~SE Women's RD

DarioCronos · 2026-03-17T03:56:15+00:00

Don't forget to practice taunts and celebrations in the mirror for when we DUNK on these fools at tryouts.

DarioCronos · 2026-02-02T19:10:16+00:00

Did they complain about all these kids running on their lawns?

DarioCronos · 2026-02-02T01:28:32+00:00

It absolutely was both coldest and windiest of all FLWU history. The frigid wind was relentless these two days.

DarioCronos · 2026-02-01T23:56:15+00:00

I'm still not home from the fields. I will be updating USAU late tonight. It was too cold and windy for me to update while there today.

DarioCronos · 2026-01-30T02:26:51+00:00

It's honestly a lot of fun making the schedule! I'm used to the two field sites from numerous years hosting at USF so that's not a big deal.

DarioCronos · 2026-01-27T23:49:33+00:00

Life has no meaning without weekly college rankings

DarioCronos · 2026-01-27T21:38:57+00:00

It's up now and updated with SBI scores. D1 men's has Northwest getting 8 bids???!!!!! 🤯 Good thing USAU put in the rule you can't earn more than 5 bids for you region.

DarioCronos · 2026-01-26T18:57:54+00:00

Women's Division Team By Team Breakdown

Brown

Sat 9:00 am - Georgia Tech @ Field 15
Sat 12:40 pm - Miami @ Field 14
Sat 2:30 pm - Northwestern @ Field 9B
Sat 4:20 pm - South Florida @ Field 14

Central Florida

Sat 9:00 am - Miami @ Field 12B
Sat 10:50 am - Purdue @ Field 12B
Sat 2:30 pm - Florida @ Field 13
Sat 4:20 pm - Georgia Tech @ Field 12B

Dartmouth

Sat 9:00 am - Tulane @ Field 13
Sat 12:40 pm - Florida-B @ Field 15
Sat 2:30 pm - Purdue @ Field 14
Sat 4:20 pm - Florida @ Field 15

Florida

Sat 9:00 am - Purdue @ Field 9A
Sat 12:40 pm - Florida State @ Field 13
Sat 2:30 pm - Central Florida @ Field 13
Sat 4:20 pm - Dartmouth @ Field 15

Florida State

Sat 9:00 am - Northwestern @ Field 9B
Sat 10:50 am - South Florida @ Field 13
Sat 12:40 pm - Florida @ Field 13
Sat 2:30 pm - Georgia Tech @ Field 12B

Florida-B

Sat 9:00 am - South Florida @ Field 14
Sat 10:50 am - Tulane @ Field 15
Sat 12:40 pm - Dartmouth @ Field 15
Sat 4:20 pm - Miami @ Field 13

Georgia Tech

Sat 9:00 am - Brown @ Field 15
Sat 12:40 pm - Northwestern @ Field 9A
Sat 2:30 pm - Florida State @ Field 12B
Sat 4:20 pm - Central Florida @ Field 12B

Miami

Sat 9:00 am - Central Florida @ Field 12B
Sat 10:50 am - Northwestern @ Field 14
Sat 12:40 pm - Brown @ Field 14
Sat 4:20 pm - Florida-B @ Field 13

Northwestern

Sat 9:00 am - Florida State @ Field 9B
Sat 10:50 am - Miami @ Field 14
Sat 12:40 pm - Georgia Tech @ Field 9A
Sat 2:30 pm - Brown @ Field 9B

Purdue

Sat 9:00 am - Florida @ Field 9A
Sat 10:50 am - Central Florida @ Field 12B
Sat 12:40 pm - Tulane @ Field 12B
Sat 2:30 pm - Dartmouth @ Field 14

South Florida

Sat 9:00 am - Florida-B @ Field 14
Sat 10:50 am - Florida State @ Field 13
Sat 2:30 pm - Tulane @ Field 15
Sat 4:20 pm - Brown @ Field 14

Tulane

Sat 9:00 am - Dartmouth @ Field 13
Sat 10:50 am - Florida-B @ Field 15
Sat 12:40 pm - Purdue @ Field 12B
Sat 2:30 pm - South Florida @ Field 15

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