Transition 2021-2025

These articles were written in 2021/2022 and show the path the EUF has taken. With annual reviews of the steps of the past and analysing potential steps into the future the EUCS will be developed further.

Introduction

THE EUROPEAN ULTIMATE CLUB SERIES STRUCTURE IS OFFICIALLY CHANGING!

After months of research & development, we have decided that in order to grow and develop the sport we all love, it is time to evolve the European Ultimate Club Series structure.

Part 1: Timeline

This week, we wanted to walk you through our proposed timeline to make those changes a reality. We estimate that the transition to the new Club Series structure will take 5 years and we wanted to make the changes incrementally to allow everyone to adapt accordingly and give us the time we need to figure everything out properly.

Part 2: Elite Invite

The tournament that is going to be introduced in the first year of the transition is the “ELITE INVITE”. 

Europe's top 8 teams from each division will be invited to compete and to prepare for their season. In 2022 we want to invite a great diversity based on strength and upcoming highlights like the World Games or WUCC. This means that we are currently thinking about inviting the World Game teams in the mixed division as well as teams that weren’t able to participate at XEUCF due to travel restrictions. It is important to know that we will only decide on who to invite after XEUCF.

Part 3: Summer + Spring Invite

One thing that works quite well in the current system is the distribution of tournaments through the regions.This is not only easier on the players' money, it requires less air travel as well (In some regions it might already be quite challenging without air travelling). In order to balance the system on the competitive side but not lose the effort of (somewhat) easy regional accessibility we want to implement the Spring and the Summer Invite tournament.

Part 4: Ranking System

The myth, the vision, (the illusion? the legend?), the ranking system. 

As you read the other articles you find many references to this. To be clear from the beginning: we currently have no ranking system in place but we work on finding (or even creating one).

Since this topic is something well known in the mathematicians' community, we would like to ask the community, like you, if there are experienced people or people with math expertise willing to help in this process.