The World Ultimate and Guts Championships starts in Vancouver tomorrow! The aussie teams at this tournament are pretty much the pinnacle of Australian Ultimate and are pretty competitive on the world stage. Last Worlds (in 2004) the Dingos (our open division team) picked up bronze with the other teams coming in around 5th and 6th. The teams have already done a quick tour of a bunch of strong west-coast frisbee towns in the states and have made waves with a number of impressive wins against quality opponents (I think the Dingos got on the news, which is pretty neat). For some of our teams this represents the first chance they've had to play against teams in their own division (the Firetails, our women's team played their first female opponents on foreign soil - just one of the difficulties aussie rep teams face).
You can keep an eye on the proceedings at the team's blog sites,
The Dingos (Open): http://dingos.blogspot.com/
The Firetails (Women's): http://firetails.blogspot.com/
The Barramundis (Mixed): http://barramundis2008.blogspot.com/
The Taipans (Masters): Well, it seems the masters' website is as old as their roster. Hopefully they'll just whack updates on www.AFDA.com.
There seem to be some decent regular updates on the progress of the open and women's juniors teams at www.afda.com
General tournament information with draws and results and stuff will be on www.wugc2008.com and there will no doubt be write ups of most of the interesting stuff on the AFDA website.
I'll be keeping an eye on the goings on. Good luck to all the competitors, especially the Canberra crew of Jonno, Keah, Max, Adam, Helen, Leon, DJ, Lucy, Charli, Laina and Vicki.
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