Events

We run outdoor sessions every Sunday, all year round, which are free and open to all camdisc members, regardless of team affiliation (or none) and experience (or none). The exact time and location is confirmed on the Spond group - reach out to us directly if you'd just like to try it out!

We run 1-2 sessions on weekday evenings throughout the year, some of which may have restricted attendance. In the winter, these use floodlit pitches, with the hire fee shared among attendees; in the summer they're free.

For Cambridge Ultimate and other club teams, the competitive outdoor season tends to run from April to early October as a series of 2-day weekend tournaments. The camdisc Annual General Meeting is held shortly after.

For local, beginner-friendly competition, the CUUC College League is open to all comers, including non-students, during UCam term time.

CUUC's Strange Blue faces off against the non-student members of camdisc in the annual Town v Gown fixture.

Summer 2024

We run free pickup games, where numbers allow, on alternating Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, usually on Parker's Piece.

The Cambridge Ultimate Open squad hold a invitational training sessions on alternating Wednesdays and Tuesdays on Coldhams Common.

We run a free coached session aimed at more experienced competitive players on Thursday evenings on Coldhams Common.

On Sunday mornings, we have our year-round all-welcome coached fundamentals sessions, usually on Parker's Piece.

See spond for more details.

Types of event

We hold different types of sessions for different purposes and aimed at different levels of play. Here are the terms we use:

• Beginner: the basics of the sport, aimed at (but not limited to!) people who have been playing ultimate regularly for under 6 months. No experience required.

• Fundamentals: working on fundamental skills, valuable at every level of play. No experience required, but also useful to players with experience.

• Advanced: working on more advanced topics and/or playing at higher intensity. We recommend that attendees are comfortable with forehands and backhands at middle distance, familiar with the concept of the open and break sides, have experience with vertical and horizontal stacks, and are ready to run hard! Let us know if you'd like any of these topics covered more in our other sessions. You must also have studded shoes, if playing on grass.

• Club: sessions aimed at people competing at the level of selective club teams, or working to get there in the coming season. Club is the division of competition available to everyone (i.e. not just students) and sanctioned by National Governing Body UK Ultimate.

• Cambridge Ultimate: sessions held for the benefit of that competitive club team, usually for a limited squad preparing for competition. Non-CUlt players may be invited as development prospects or to provide high-level opposition.

More generally, ultimate is played under these divisions:

Gender

Ultimate is played under:

• Open [O]: no gender restrictions

• Women's [W]: all players must be woman-matching

• Mixed [X]: 50-50 split of man- and woman-matching players

In general, our training and competitions, plus the overwhelming majority of the competitions we enter, are played under the UKU gender policy: "UKU supports a[n] ... inclusive and equal approach welcoming all players to play in the division (or gender role in the mixed division) that they identify with".

Events without an explicit gender division are assumed to be "loose Mixed": played with whatever gender ratio is in attendance (other Mixed variants exist for specific gender ratios).

Surface

Ultimate is played on:

• Grass: the most common variant, and camdisc's focus.

• Indoors (hardcourt or artificial turf)

• Beach

Indoor and beach ultimate use smaller fields and teams. Cambridge Ultimate sometimes competes in these variants too.

Age

Most of the club's competitions are played without age restrictions, although under-18s attending our events must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Elsewhere there are Youth competitions (U14, U17, U20, U24), as well as Masters (>=30 for woman-matching players, >=33 for man-matching players), GrandMasters (37, 40), and Great-GrandMasters (45, 48).