Rec league

Tyler has loaded the first five weeks of the indoor schedule—click here.

There’s also a link on the Rec League pulldown menu and the direct “ITSportsNet Schedule/Standings” link.

Indoor league starts tomorrow night!

Tyler has formed all the teams.  Find out who you’re playing with here.  If you’ve got issues, talk to Tyler.

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Go dig the indoor shoes out of the closet—ultimate in the Sportsdome starts on Monday, September 22!

Registration is now open.  Click here to get started.

The deadline for registration is Friday, September 19 (or once we’ve hit a full ten teams). You must have fully registered and paid by the deadline or you will NOT be put on a team. No excuses, no exceptions*.

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10 teams squared off on a hot saturday to see who would be declared the 2008 BUL rec league champions. After the 2 pools of teams played their round robin games Jim Millington’s “Inconceivable” was set to meet Aaron Kucheraway’s “Eh” in the final. The other teams stuck around to enjoy the burgers and the jumping castle and to watch the final.

Aaron Kucheraway’s “Eh” came out on top and claimed the trophy for 2008 - congratulations.

Thanks to everyone that helped out this year it was a great season. If you are interested in helping out next year email me at president@barrieultimate.com.

Special thanks to:

Talena - summer convenor                                   Ian - merchandise and Vice Pres

Brad - feilds co-ordinator                                    Kristy / Becki - Treasurers

Steve - he arranged all the prizes and the free food for the BBQ!!!

Jeremy - water guy!!                                             Pete B - BBQ delivery master

And all the captains for helping keep everyone informed.

Keep and eye on the website as indoor league will start around Sept 22 - registration to open soon.

Andy Beecroft - BUL President

Hi everyone,

The Rec season finals will be a playoff tournament on Saturday, August 23 at the Tree Nursery (this should not be a surprise to anyone). Games will start (as in line up and pull) at 9 a.m. Your captains will be getting details on Wed., Aug. 13 about format etc.

There will be a BBQ lunch provided after the games, and there will be cups games available, a skills competition, AND a bouncy castle for the kids (or very light adults). Please bring your kids! Fans are welcome, as always.

This is a very large topic, so we’ll start with what a foul is, what a violation is, and the “call / contest” stuff.

Basically, a foul and a violation are both ways that the rules of the game are broken. A foul is defined as “non-incidental contact between opposing players… in general the player initiating the contact has committed the foul.” A violation is “any infraction of the rules other than a foul.” So basically, if you hit someone on the other team and it affects the play (e.g. marker hits thrower’s arm and throw is affected), it’s a foul, if you break a rule but don’t touch them, it’s a violation (e.g. double team or fast count). The person that is fouled calls the foul / violation, usually, though in the Spirit of the Game with new people involved sometimes the person committing the foul/violation will call it on themselves. After it’s called, the person that broke the rules can either agree or contest (disagree), in the case of a foul; or in the case of a violation, “fix” whatever the violation was (e.g. move farther away, slow the stall count). There are specific responses to calls, contests, etc., based on the foul/violation, which are detailed in the rules. Next week we’ll look at the continuation rule, and then we’ll start in on the fouls, violations and appropriate “following actions”. 

Zone is a type of defense in which you are responsible for covering an area rather than a person. The intent is basically to close off the throwing lanes on the field so that your opponents can’t throw upfield, and to force a turnover when they try it. The type of zone will depend on your team and probably your captain’s preferences, but generally there are three parts to a zone: front, mid, and deep. The people in the front are the ones on the disc, one marking the thrower and counting, and the other(s) just over 3 metres / 10 feet away from the thrower, blocking a portion of the field. The mids are (hmm) the middle of the zone, and it’s their job to cover runners in that area and / or knock down the mid-length throws. The deeps are the ones nearest the end zone your team is ‘protecting’ and they are the ones that stop the long throws - usually they are fast and tall or can jump well. They are also ideally going to call guidance to the mids when there are runners coming into their area. For more specifics, your captains will set you up!

The boundary lines are marked by cones, and in some cases there will be a painted line on the field for one or more of the boundary lines. Inside the line is IN, on and outside the line are OUT.

Whether you are in or out depends only on the first point of contact.

If you catch the disc in the air, it’s your first foot touching the ground that counts—if that foot is in-bounds, you’re in-bounds, even if you then keep running out (just back up to where you first touched down and keep playing).

If that foot is on the line or out, you’re out—the other team gets the disc.

If you’re standing still and straddling the line, you’re out.

If you can keep a body part in and on the ground and catch the disc before touching the ground with a body part on or over the line, you’re in.

If you can jump from IN bounds, catch the disc out of bounds and throw it back in before you land (if you’re going to be landing out), the disc is still good. And, you’re awesome!

When checking to see if you are in (either in bounds or in the end zone for a point), use the two closest pylons. Whether you’re in or out is up to the person with the best perspective.

If you were reading the disc overhead as you caught it, you probably didn’t have the best perspective. But, then again, neither did the guy at the other end of the field shouting “Check feet! You’re out!”. This is where Spirit of the Game comes in—if you’re out, say so. If you’re in (and think you had the best perspective), you can call back some polite version of “nope, I’m in, play on”.

As noted in last week’s tip, a time cap is a way to determine when the game ends and who wins it. As you’ve probably seen by now, it can take more time than we have good light to play to 17 points. There are two kinds of time caps, soft caps and hard caps. A soft cap is partially reliant on score - if a certain score has been reached by the soft time cap, the game ends and the team with the most points wins. Generally the soft cap is the end of the game if one team is up by two or more points at the predetermined cap time (e.g. 8:30 p.m.). A hard cap is a predetermined time when the game is over, regardless of score. In our Rec league, ties are allowed. For both soft and hard time caps, captains decide on them before the game, and the current point being played is finished if the time cap is reached during a point (so if it’s 8:30 p.m. but you’re still playing a point, you go until someone scores it).

Games can end in two ways, either by points or a time cap. We’ll go over points this week, and time caps will be next week’s tip. Games are “to 17, win by 2″. This means that the first team to get 17 points wins, as long as the other team has 15 points or less - hence “win by 2″. If the score is 16-16 and one team scores to make it 17-16, at least one more point must be played so that the score is 18-16. If the games goes from 17-16 to 17-17, at least two more points must be played so that one team wins 19-17. (and so on until one team has at least 17 points, AND 2 points more than the other team).

Okay Ulti Parents and Kids!!

The next installment of our Juniors Clinic will be held on Wednesday, June 4th at Barrie Central Collegiate, starting at 7:00 p.m. and running until 8:30 p.m.

We had a very succesful first clinic in the dome in April and we’re hoping for an even bigger turnout in June.  We are looking for any kids age 6-13 who want to get out and play some ultimate, learn some new skills and have some FUN!

Remeber, there will be an adult clinic for new players this evening as well, so we’re the perfect form of babysitting if you were planning on attending

If you have any questions or need more details, please email:

katie@barrieultimate.com

… the teams are finalized as of 11:30 a.m. today and registration will no longer be available. Anyone seeing this after that time, if you are desperate to play the men’s and women’s touring teams practice at Central on Wednesdays at 6:30 p.m., and there may still be room on a competitive team on Thursday nights (see prior post by Andy Beecroft). 

Teams and schedule will be posted by Wednesday, May 7. 

Registration for summer rec league closes tonight. If you want to play, you must register on-line by the end of the day.

Click here to register.

If you can’t pay on-line, come on down to the British Arms tonight (7-10pm)—Kristy will be accepting cheques.

Just wanted to let all you ultimate parents know that any of your little ones, aged 6-13, are welcome to join us at the Indoor Clinic being held at the Barrie Sports dome on April 28, starting at 7:00 p.m.   Just drop by - no need to register and parents do not need to be league members.

This will be the first of two ‘kid’s clinics’ we’ll be hosting this summer, where we will be running some fun drills/games to get them into the ultimate spirit!

If you have any questions please email: katie@barrieultimate.com

Forget about the two feet of snow on the lawn—summer league is coming!

As in years past, the recreational league will be Monday nights, from May 12 to August 18. The league is open to all players—if you’ve never played before, this is where to start.

Here are some preliminary dates and details:
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I’ve been adding new content to the website for the upcoming summer season.

Here are the latest updates:

• AGM meeting minutes.
• Who does what—updated contact info.
• New policy for rec league jerseys.
• Group purchase policy for Patagonia gear.
• Field maps for 2008.

Look for a full schedule on summer league soon.

Teams are posted Here!

Games / Schedule / Standings are posted Here! 

If games are to be canceled due to bad weather it will be posted on the website by 5pm and the Barrie Sports Dome will be notified.  Please note, use common sense if its bad out please don’t risk your life to get to a game.   Live to play another day.    Game Schedule will be posted by the weekend.  Note the games are 75 mins long this year.   If you are paid in full and not on a team please email me YMCA4Lifer@hotmail.com ASAP. 

The schedule for the fall indoor session is posted. Click here to see it. (There’s also a permanent link at the right under “Site Links”.)

The fall league teams have been formed—teams are posted in the forum.
Contact Kooch if you have questions.