Important update about the EUCR 2022

Dear Member Federations,

Dear European Elite Ultimate Teams,

The EUF is experiencing an unexpectedly low amount of registrations in various qualification tournaments in the women's and partially also in the mixed division. 

Even though the ToCs and the EUF actively tried to find enough teams to run these events, the number of registrations stayed at a level where it was not possible to have a real selection on the field for the EUCF and for the organisers to cover all fixed costs.

The EUF policies for the EUCF qualifications are clear and they are unchanged for years:

The qualification for the EUCF must come from a selection on the field out of a EUF tournament this year. It would be unfair towards others if we would grant wildcards to teams just because the density of teams in their region is low, without them having to earn this bid.

In order to manage this situation we have 2 tools:

1. Merge regions or reorder nations to other regions, where they can have good competition and, if they are good, quality for the EUCF.

2. Use another official EUF event from 2022 to assign some EUCF bids

According to these principles and taking into account the low registration level in some regions, the EUF has decided the following

Event Cancellations

1. The EUCR-N in Stockholm in the divisions Open, Women and Mixed will be cancelled

2. The EUCR-C in Berlin in the Women division will be cancelled

New “way to EUCF 2022”

1. Following the EUF Gender Equity Principles, we will assign already in 2022 2 bids for the EUCF to the Top2 Teams in the Women Division of the EUF Elite Invite 2022.As already communicated in the call for bids for the Elite and Spring Invite 2023, it is planned that the Top2 teams from each division in the Elite Invite 2023 will immediately get a Bid for the EUCF2023, as well as the Winners of the Spring Invite in each division. For the Women division this rule will be applied already in 2022.

2. The mixed Teams from the following Nations will compete together with those from the Central Region in the EUCR in Ghent (Aug. 20+21) for access to the EUCF:

1. France

2. Italy

3. Sweden

4. Switzerland

All interested teams should register asap and before July 20th. In case a selection will be necessary it will be done shortly after July 20th.The number of the EUCF Bids in the Mixed division will be generally adapted, also taking into consideration the number of teams at each qualification event

1. The Women Teams from the North and Central Region will compete together with those from the East Region in the EUCR in Warsaw (Aug. 26+28) for access in the EUCF.This possibility is also open to teams that haven’t registered in the EUCR-N (Women Division) or EUCR-C (Women Division).All interested teams should register asap and before July 20th. In case a selection will be necessary it will be done shortly after July 20th.The number of the EUCF Bids in the Women division will be generally adapted, also taking into consideration the number of teams at each qualification event

2. The Open Teams from the North Region will compete together with those from the East Region in the EUCR in Warsaw (Aug. 26+28) for access to the EUCF.This possibility is also open to teams that haven’t registered in the EUCR-N (Open Division).All interested teams should register asap and before July 20th. In case a selection will be necessary it will be done shortly after July 20th.The number of the EUCF Bids in the Open division will be generally adapted, also taking into consideration the number of teams at each qualification event.

3. All other EUCRs stay unchanged and will take place. All interested teams should register asap and before July 20th. In case a selection will be necessary it will be done shortly after July 20th.

We do understand that these cancellations and consequent change of the pathway to the EUCF might have negative consequences for some teams.

Unfortunately, the situation in 2022 is this one and the changes will guarantee all teams a high-level qualification tournament for the EUCF.

For 2023 we want to be better prepared to face such challenges.

In order to do that, we ask motivated players out of all divisions to join the EUF regional and central series committees. The tasks are mainly to network within the teams in your division in the region to better understand their needs and increase the total number of teams entering the EUF Championship Series. If you are interested please just send a mail to office@ultimatefederation.eu

Grazie e ciao

Oddi

EUF President