Spring Tour #1 - Preview
Spring Tour Grenoble 2025 © European Ultimate Federation / Quentin Dupré la Tour
The Club Season 2026 is about to begin!
With this preview, we want to give you all the elements you need to follow the weekend and understand the impact this start might have for the rest of the year.
We will go through the individual tournaments, dates and matchups.
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What to expect from the Spring Tour weekends?
This is the first outing of the season, so even though we will see some strong performances in the respective tournaments, the combined competition will not give us a meaningful ranking just yet. Each tournament will be its own bubble in the ranking, but most teams have a connection to other pools.
Saturday is all about group games and getting into the rhythm - all pools will play round robin. On Sunday, we will enter the bracket stage in most tournaments or determine the winner of the tournament with another group stage. Spring Tour is all about getting a few replays of matchups and getting the first games under the belt.
If you want an overview of all tournaments, use https://eucs-schedule.ultimatefederation.eu to navigate between them. Below are the individual links to each tournament.
Streaming
EUF LIVE is continuing the steps to improve the quality and stream more games. In 2026, more manually produced games are planned than ever before – increasing the number of Premium games by x3.
We offer three quality categories:
Premium: 1-4 camera production with replays, slo-mo and graphics. Commentators at selected events
Handheld Device: Lower quality camera (Smartphone), manually operated
AI: Fully automated AI, often a VEO.
From 2026, only Premium games are available for single-game purchases. Handheld and AI games are included in the Season or Tournament passes.
Spring Tour 1, April 18–19
Angers: 2 fields streamed: 1 x Premium (1 camera), 1 x AI
Budweis: 2 fields streamed: 2 x Handheld Device
Padova: 3 fields streamed: 1 x Premium (1 camera), 1 x Handheld Device, 1 x AI
70+ games live-streamed in total
2-3 fields streamed per location
Manually operated cameras at all locations
No commentators for Spring Tour April 18-19
Be sure to follow the ranking changes with Ravi Vasudevan: In or Out? Club Ranking Review
Tuesday, April 14th 20:00: Spring Tour Preview → Watch here
Tuesday, April 28th 20:00: Spring Tour Recap → Watch here
Weekend #1: 18th to 19th of April
Angers, FRA - Open
Format
12 teams start in three pools of 4
Tiered pools to determine the placement in pools of 3
Full game list: https://spring-ang.ultimatefederation.eu
Information about the teams
Gentle had a disappointing end to last season. They have really tooled up for 2026. After winning their own invite, how are they going to look against some real competition?
Tchac are bringing DC stars Jacques Nissen and Alexandre Fall to Angers. They will be missing the Stanguennec brothers, who are currently on the host team Magic Disc's roster. Rumors are that they will join Tchac during the transfer window as they are playing WUCC with them, but they are doing French nationals with their home team, Magic and playing with them for now. How is Tchac going to recover from a very disappointing EUCF last year?
Iznogood and Ranelagh were bubble teams last year, with Izno barely making it in and Ranelagh winning E2CF. How are these teams going to stack up this year? Ratrac was sitting at 20th last year, can the young Bern side push up into the contention conversation this year?
Key matches to follow
Saturday, April 18th - 16:05: Tchac vs Ranelagh → Watch here
Sunday, April 19th: all games streamed
9:55: Winners of Pool A & C → Watch here
12:45: Winners of Pool B & C → Watch here
15:35: Winners of Pool A & B → Watch here
Budweis, CZE - Women and Open
Women: 7 Teams
Format
Two pools into crossover to bracket 1-4
Full game list: https://spring-bud.ultimatefederation.eu
Information about the teams
3SB, Catchup and East Block are the teams to look for here. 3SB has the Czech WUCC bid.
Catchup is led by Sandra Kniely and is still looking to really translate their indoor success to the grass field. A 14th-place finish at EUCF last year was likely a disappointment for the Austrians.
East Block is missing their two stats leaders from last year, Dominika Hadová and Lucie Šimonová. They do retain Alena Doležalová, but it looks difficult to see this team really being able to push their Czech sisters. The game between East Block and Catchup should be a good test for which teams may be in contention for quarters at EUCF later.
Key Matchups to watch
Saturday, April 18th - 14:40: Heidees vs 3SB → Watch here
Saturday, April 18th - 16:05: Catchup vs East Block → Watch here
Sunday, April 19th:
12:45: Semifinal → Watch here
15:35: Final → Watch here
Open: 5 Teams
Format
Round Robin to placement game
Full game list: https://spring-bud.ultimatefederation.eu
Information about the Teams
Will 3SB separate themselves from the pack? This AIM team looks punchy, combining young Romanian, Hungarian, Israeli, and some American players. Their game(s) against 3SB will be interesting to watch to see where they might stack up against Europe. It looks like players like Kai Creed and Omri Ben-Zion are not coming to Budweis, but they do have the fiery Hungarian Ferenc Klement.
Key Matchups to watch:
Saturday, April 18th - 9:00: Terrible Monkeys vs 3SB → Watch here
Sunday, April 19th
9:00: Outsiterz vs Terrible Monkey → Watch here
12:45: Final → Watch here
Padova, ITA - Mixed and Open
Mixed - 16 Teams
Format
4 pools of 4
Tiered pools of 4 to finish the weekend
Full game list: https://spring-pad.ultimatefederation.eu/
Information about the Teams
We get all of the "big three" here in Padova: Mosquitos, Deep Space and Tiefseetaucher. Did Deep Space learn their lessons? Are we going to see a fully healthy Ian Tait help the Londoners get revenge on the young Austrians?
Mosquitos have a couple of additions from Disconnection coming over this year to add to their already well-known talents, like the Angetters, Scheruga, Dunshirn, Roy, and Schmied. Did they respond to a title with complacency or hunger for more on the WUCC year?
What are Tiefseetauscher going to look like this year? They have lost some talent to Zamperl, such as the Schütz siblings, as two Munich teams qualified for WUCC. However, they gain Tom Blasman. In the last two years, they had good regular seasons but couldn't get the job done at EUCF. How are they going to start off in 2026? Zamperl is in their pool. Familiarity can often bring unlikely upsets. Zamperl is surely underseeded, as they are newcomers to EUCS. Could they steal an early win against their local rivals?
The home team, Padova Rangers, is missing their star, Lorenzo Pavan, this year. Though they have some splashy US pickups for WUCC, they are not rostered for Spring Tour. The game between them and Savage will be an interesting one to see who moves up and, likely, tests themselves against the big three in the final pools.
Some have predicted an upswing from Zurich's newly rebranded ZU Splash. They get an early test against Mosquitos to prove themselves.
Key Matchups to watch
Saturday, April 18th - 10:35: Tiefseetaucher vs Zamperl → Watch here
Saturday, April 18th - 16:05: Cus Padova Rangers vs Savage Ultimate → Watch here
Sunday, April 19th:
8:30: Winner Pool B & C → Watch here
11:20: Winner Pool B & D → Watch here
14:10: Winner Pool A & B → Watch here
Open - 12 Teams
Format
4 Pools of 3
Crossover into Bracket 1-8
Full game list: https://spring-pad.ultimatefederation.eu/
Information about the Teams
La Fotta should be head and shoulders above the rest, will they show that early here? Cotarica had a mix of results last year, how will the young Rimini team look if they make it to a final against La Fotta? Quijotes beat Clapham two years ago but barely missed out of EUCF qualification last year, how will the Spanish look? The game against La Fotta in Pools will be a nice proving ground for them.
What do Bad Skid and Heidees look like this year? Nils Sontag has moved from Heidees to Wall City. Does Heidees have enough without their star player to remain an EUCF level team?
Echo were the Austrian champs 2025. Is Vienna Open coming back? They will have a good test against FAB and Heidees early. FAB and Echo were both at Gentle Invite and did not play each other but FAB lost to Gentle 15-3 while ECHO took them to universe point. Are they ready to make the jump into EUCF contention?
Key Matchups to watch
Saturday, April 18th - 11:50: BFD La Fotta vs Quijotes → Watch here
Saturday, April 18th - 17:30: Pool Winner B vs Pool Winner D → Watch here
Sunday, April 19th
9:55: Quarterfinals → Watch here
12:45: Semifinals → Watch here
15:35: Finals → Watch here
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