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Aug

CUC 2011 Open Preview

By Tushar | Posted in Canadian Ultimate, CUC, Open, Tournaments | 3 Comments »

In the last of our previews we look at the Open Division. Much like the other divisions a World’s year brings out the best and reorganizes the landscape. This time is no different but while the Open division has gotten stronger some markets have experienced a slight downturn.

In Ottawa Phoenix has felt the loss of some players to Trainwreck. Likewise in Montreal where Odyssèe has siphoned off some of the Open players. Both of those losses are tempered by the return of GOAT and Furious George. Furious amongst the most famous teams in the world and GOAT amongst the leading elite.

With sixteen teams and a contribution from every region Ontario leads the way with seven(7) teams, Quebec follows with three(3), Atlantic and BC each contribute two(2), and finally Prairies and Alberta with one(1) each. Divided into four pools each team has a chance to make the finals on the first two days of play before the top and bottom quarters split on Saturday.

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Aug

CUC 2011 Women’s Preview

By Tushar | Posted in Canadian Ultimate, CUC, Tournaments, Women's | 1 Comment »

Continuing in our theme of previews we now reach the Women’s division and as it’s a World’s year it is quite competitive. While CUC will start on Thursday many of the teams competed in fiercely contested Regionals last month. Women’s Ultimate has seen quite a bit of growth in recent years it still has 12 spots at CUC. There have been a few calls amongst players to open up spots but the true test of demand will be next year.

Divided into two pools of six the Women’s teams play five games before playing pre-quarters on Friday afternoon.

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Aug

CUC 2011 Masters Preview

By Tushar | Posted in Canadian Ultimate, CUC, Masters, Tournaments | 2 Comments »

In 2007 Tombstone won CUC in Toronto against Ottawa. Tombstone subsequently retired, to some degree, and showed no signs of life until earlier this year. Likewise, teams established twenty years ago (like Nomads) have dusted off the cleats and are returning to the big stage.

This year the Masters division will be the most competitive in perhaps a decade, more competitive then 4 years ago and it promises to be exciting.
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Aug

CUC 2011 Mixed Preview

By thomas | Posted in Canadian Ultimate, CUC, Mixed | 7 Comments »

Unfortunately, my predictions will be rather tame. A missed upset on Thursday could have consequences for an entire bracket. This coupled with the even distribution of talent in various “seed groups” has led to a somewhat unpredictable tournament. Sounds like a cop out. It probably is. I am quite lazy. However, I will offer a few guesses, offer some analysis, and leave you with a brief summary of the teams attending.

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Aug

CUC 2011 Juniors Preview

By Tushar | Posted in Canadian Ultimate, CUC, Juniors, Tournaments | 2 Comments »

Last year, in Sherbrooke, there were a number of teams that invited players from outside of their region to join them. Those out of region players have gone back to their home regions and, along with their coaches, have returned to CUC with their own teams. The Juniors division this year is truly reflective of the amount of work put in around the country to develop the game.

In the remainder of this post we’ll take a look at the starting pools, evaluate teams, and make a few predictions.
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Aug

CUC 2011

By Tushar | Posted in Canadian Ultimate, CUC, sticky, Tournaments | Comments Off

Below you’ll find quick links to CUC 2011 articles and resources. As media appears we’ll add links here.

Coverage – Where you’ll find resources, etc.
Juniors Preview
Masters Preview
Mixed Preview
Women’s Preview
Open Preview
Viewers Guide – Day 1
Viewers Guide – Day 2

Aug

CUC 2011 Part 1 – Coverage

By Tushar | Posted in Canadian Ultimate, CUC, Interesting, Media, Tournaments | 1 Comment »

Ultimate players, fans, and supporters have been wondering where they can stay up to date with CUC 2011. Will IAmUltimate be providing coverage much like in previous years? No. This year the CUC Organizing Committee will be taking upon much of the work in live coverage of the finals. Like in past years the tournament website will offer all results and pretty good coverage. There are a few other sources of information that you should be using and here they are:

CUC 2011 Tournament Website (www.cuc2011.com) – Results, Schedules, and General Information.
IAmUltimate.com – We’ll try to provide previews and information throughout the tournament but we’ll be pretty busy playing.
Live Video – Two sources on this. Finals day coverage has been arranged by the Organizers through Rogers TV. You may watch the Sunday finals at: www.rogerstv.com/cuc2011. For Juniors and Masters finals we will try to record them and broadcast them afterwards but we may also try to get some live coverage going at the fields; it’s an unknown at this time.
Finally, follow your favourite teams on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/search/CUC2011