On Aug 28, 4:20=A0pm, jar...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> I didn't start playing ultimate until college, and I went to a small
> school so all we had was an intramural league that didnt' even follow
> UPA rules. We finally got a club team started my senior year but it
> didn't participate in the UPA College Series (that year).
>
> I've never registered with the UPA, never played for a club team, but
> I have played in tournaments like GRUB and Lungbuster with local teams
> or I picked up with a team at the tourney, the first time being
> Lungbuster '04.
>
> I got my undergrad degree in May '06 and will go to grad school in the
> next few years, and I always planned on going to a school with a good
> ultimate program so I could have the experience that I missed out on
> because I went to a small school and had to start my own team.
>
> Now I find out that I probably won't be able to do that. I am a good
> player, but definitely not a ringer and would never be the best player
> on a college team. I can't believe their eligibility system works like
> this....
>
> I'd like to see a board candidate take up this issue. The one
> frustrating thing about Ultimate is that many aspects of it fly right
> in the face of common sense. (My other big sticking point is turnovers
> on throws after a foul is called, in every single other s****t you play
> as hard as you can until someone stops you. Not in ultimate though.)
>
> Can anyone offer a good defense of the current UPA policy?
If you have never registered with the UPA, you are in the clear. I
have no idea if Lungbuster is a UPA-sanctioned tourney, but these are
in theory mutually exclusive, you shouldn't have been able to play in
a UPA tourney without first registering with the UPA. If you
definitely never registered, you should be just fine re: eligibility.
Also, re: turnovers on throws. You play until someone stops you, which
is the point of the foul (or, at least, when you call foul). Turnovers
only accrue on subsequent throws. The idea is that you are calling a
"play-on" in which case you roll the dice. not sure what's so unfair
about that.
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