Here is a list with the tournaments that used the SOTG rating system that we released last February:

• Oceans Beach Hat (New Zealand)


• Bulf à l'eau (France)


• Battle on the Beach (USA)


• Boracay Beach (the Philippines)


• Costa Brava Tournament (Spain)


• Sandblast (USA)


• Bibione Beach Combined (Italy)


• Beach Fest (UK)


• the Portuguese Beach Ultimate league (Portugal)


• the Cork Beach Hat and Layout Championships (Ireland)


• Yes But Nau (France)


• 4th Beach Ultimate tournament (Colombia)


• Wildwood(USA)
• Singapore local tournament (Singapore)

To add the geographic dispersion, Magic Maggia (Switzerland) and Fiesta en Pie de la Cuesta (Mexico) also have committed to trying the system. Nice :-)

Initial feedback has been that it is logistically a bit cumbersome (Wildwood uses 4 volunteers to deal with all the score sheets and getting captains to fill them in). Nevertheless the system has received many positive reviews and several good suggestions for the version we will release next year.

If you have used the system and have any comments: we're going long... so throw the huck!...

Yesterday we were informed that Wildwood, the 100% coed, 4-on-4 Beach Ultimate tournament in New Jersey, has 224 teams registered. Amazing...! This makes it, at least in number of teams, the largest Beach Ultimate tournament in the world. (Does anybody know how Paganello (Italy) compares in number of players?)

Wildwood will have 4 volunteers to collect the score sheets for the BULA Spirit of the Game rating system and will be awarding two teams the award: the SOTG winner in the elite 3/1 division and the winner in the elite 2/2 division (in case you are wondering... the numbers refer to the number of men/women per team).

Hats off to the organizers. This is quite the undertaking! 224 teams...

All the way from South Africa, a very cool video ad where Frisbee Fever takes over the city. Link

After all these years of thinking we knew about all Beach Ultimate tournaments around the world, we just found out that in Japan, for the last 6 years, there also has been a Beach Ultimate tournament! The way we found it is because someone posted a video of the Ebashi Cup on YouTube.com. Great! Another country with Beach Ultimate. Let's hope the Asian region will see more Beach Ultimate in the next few years.

I have no idea if this works, how this works, and why this works, but it looks cool: a dics with a video camera attached to the bottom. You can record up to 20 minutes of video and the smart wind vein on the top keeps the camera facing in one direction while it’s spinning through the air. Funky!