BULA has always tried to help players organize Beach Ultimate pickup games, tournaments and leagues. It started off with a whole section with tips for organizers. Two years ago we started offering free pictures in high resolution to be used for posters, articles in newspapers, etc... Last week we published an extensive Sponsorship Guide to help organizers understand how sponsorship works and how to ask for it.

Today the BULA PR group released free flyers and posters that people can download and use to promote Beach Ultimate in the area where they live. Everything was released in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian.

The posters were designed to allow people to easily add their own information on the right, while having a catchy design and some information on the left.

The flyers were made so people can print them on one piece of paper and fold it into a great handout for people watching the game. Again we left enough space so that you can add you own contact information and anything else you find useful. We hope you will make good use of them :-)

Download the .pdf files below. The flyers are about 0.5 Mb and the posters are 0.25 Mb:

* Flyer in English | Poster in English
* Flyer in Portuguese | Poster in Portuguese
* Flyer in Spanish | Poster in Spanish
* Flyer in Italian | Poster in Italian
* Flyer in French | Poster in French

Many thanks to: Nadia Sillano, Marco Boldrini, Gemma Perez, Jose Pires, and Joana Rodrigues

Sponsorship is sometimes controversial in the world of Beach Ultimate. However sponsorship can enhance any tournament or league. Don’t immediately think TV, shirt advertising, etc... It can simply be the local council that promotes the event in the area in return for flyers near the fields. However, if you want, sponsorship can be a whole bunch of companies that can get you money, TV coverage, and free beers :-)

If you are like many organizers... you have a passion about Beach Ultimate, you want to organize a tournament or a league but you don’t know much about sponsorship, then we have something for you: The BULA Sponsorship committee worked over a year to create a 22 page sponsorship guide that will answer the following questions:

• What can you expect?


• What does a sponsor want?


• What types of sponsorship are there?


• How can you best approach sponsors?


• Who should you contact?

Furthermore, we added real examples of other tournaments, a sponsorship invitation example letter, contract, and resources to help you get sponsorship and run a great tournament or city league!

Download the Sponsorship Guide

Many thanks to: Mike Palmer, Matt Kass, Brian Calle, Rahim Resad, Bruce Heslop, and Adam Levy

UPDATE 11 FEB: Dima translated the guide into Russian!

Today we launched a new Spirit of the Game scoring system that is much more objective than most systems, yet still has some subjective influences.

It started with the idea to use/adapt the Swedish Fair Play system that was promoted through the WFDF in 2004. However after several discussions within the BULA-Rules workgroup it was decided that this system was too subjective and we wanted to improve the SOTG rating system that originated by Fadi Hobeila and Christine Sura in Montreal (Canada).

Lorne Beckman (Canada), Rue Veitl (Germany), Raoni (Brazil), Tim Finan (USA), José Pires (France), Rahim Resad (Singapore), Filipa Bringel (Portugal), and I spent over a year discussing and improving the system so it could be used to create a worldwide Beach Ultimate Spirit of the Game rating standard.

Are we happy with it? Yes... for a beta version :-)

You will be the ones to tell us if this is a step in the right direction. We sent an email to all Beach Ultimate tournament directors and asked them to test it. In order to further improve the system we want (and need) feedback! Download the .pdf version below and send comments to sotg@beachultimate.org or leave them below.

In case you are wondering what the cap is all about... The symbol is the Chinese symbol for Spirit/Energy and Lookfly, the SOTG sponsors of the WCBU in Portugal in 2004, is so kind to offer this to Beach Ultimate tournament SOTG winners this year. So if you see someone with this cap, you know he/she is good company :-)

And now.... without further ado.... (drum roll).... The BULA Spirit of the Game rating system (version 1.06beta. Last update 26 February 2006)

• Spirit of the Game rating system (English)


• Spirit of the Game rating system (Español)


• Spirit of the Game rating system (Français)


• Spirit of the Game rating system (Italiano)


• Spirit of the Game rating system (Português)


• Spirit of the Game rating system (Brasileiro)


• Spirit of the Game rating system (Russian)

If you need a free PDF reader, you can download it here.

Keep the Spirit. It is what makes this sport the Ultimate!