Open Division

The Open Division is just that: i.e. "open to all players".

The Open Division sees two titles awarded annually: a Tour championship, analogous to a league title, and the National championship, a knockout event run over the course of a weekend. The Tour structure was developed in 1997 as a series of events throughout the country that would allow teams to find their position within the playing population and, by using different tournament formats throughout the season, increase the percentage of games played against similar standard opponents. With points awarded to each position partially based on the number of teams in attendance, the Tour structure has been partly responsible for the increase in standard of the UK game, and has received praise from several of our European neigbours.

As well as showcasing the highest level of ultimate played in the country, the Open division caters for upcoming and newly formed teams, with a two-tier system of competition that promotes competition at greater depth, and allows teams to acclimatise as they learn.

In 2007 Clapham Ultimate won the UKUA Tour for the Open division - but didn't have things all their own way after losing a semi-final at Tour 2 to Fire of London.

Results

Previous results for Tour and Nationals

2008 Tour

The final standings in the UKUA Open Tour 2008 are as follows:

Pos	Team	Points	Events Played	Average Points*
1	Chevron Action Flash	702	3	234
2	Fire of London 1	682	3	227
3	Clapham Ultimate 1	682	3	227
4	Fusion East	670	3	223
5	Brighton Ultimate 1	572	3	191
6	GB Masters	562	3	187
7	EMO 1	554	3	185
8	Clapham Ultimate 2	485	3	162
9	LeedsLeedsLeeds	470	3	157
10	Discuits 1	453	3	151
11	Devon Ultimate 1	401	3	134
12	Bristol Plastic Factory 1	375	3	125
13	Ltd Release 1	362	3	121
14	Fusion West	355	3	118
15	Mild Mannered Janitors	328	3	109
16	Sheffield Steal 1	289	3	96
17	Fire of London 2	265	3	88
18	Vision Ultimate	249	3	83
19	BAF	231	3	77
20	The Brown 1	227	3	76
21	ABH 1	201	3	67
22	GB Juniors	195	3	65
23	Strange Blue	195	3	65
24	Ltd Release 2	186	3	62
25	Brighton Ultimate 2	160	3	53
26	Flyght Club 1	155	3	52
27	London Revolution	151	3	50
28	Trigger Happy	151	3	50
29	L.atitude	136	2	68
30	Kent Open 1	134	3	45
31	EMO 2	132	3	44
32	Red	128	3	43
33	ABH 2	122	3	41
34	Curve	115	3	38
35	Abstract	99	3	33
36	Discuits 2	89	3	30
37	Devon Ultimate 2	85	3	28
38	Wink and the Gun	75	3	25
39	Flump	71	2	36
40	Sheffield Steal 2	70	3	23
41	Bristol Plastic Factory 2	58	2	29
42	Leamington Lemmings	41	3	14
43	Flyght Club 2	40	3	13
44	Lucky Huckers	30	2	15
45	The Brown 2	28	2	14
46	High Flyers	17	2	9
47	Staffordshire Oat Cakes	17	3	6
48	Bournemouth	13	1	13
49	Kent Open 2	11	3	4

Note that where teams are tied on points they are seperated by head-to-head tournament finishing positions over the season.

* Average points per event are included just for interest. Final UKUA Tour Ranking positions are determined by the total score.

Open Tour 1 (2008)

Results from Open Tour 1 2008 (5-6 April, Bristol)

	Pos	Team	Points	Comments
	1	Chevron Action Flash	250
	2	Fire of London 1	230
	3	Clapham Ultimate 1	222
	4	Fusion East	210
	5	Clapham Ultimate 2	205
	6	GB Masters	190
	7	EMO 1	182
	8	Devon Ultimate 1	170
	9	Brighton Ultimate 1	162
	10	Discuits 1	150
	11	Mild Mannered Janitors	141
	12	LeedsLeedsLeeds	130
	13	Bristol Plastic Factory 1	125
	14	Ltd Release 1	110	Relegated
	15	Sheffield Steal 1	101	Relegated
	16	BAF	90	Relegated
B Tour: 1	17	Fire of London 2	90	B Tour Winners - Promoted
2	18	The Brown 1	78	Promoted
3	19	Fusion West	75	Promoted
4	20	Vision Ultimate	73
5	21	Strange Blue	70
6	22	L.atitude	68
7	23	ABH 1	65
8	24	Ltd Release 2	63
9	25	Trigger Happy	60
10	26	Flyght Club 1	58
11	27	Red	55
12	28	Kent Open 1	53
13	29	Brighton Ultimate 2	50
14	30	Discuits 2	48	Relegated
15	31	Devon Ultimate 2	45	Relegated
16	32	Flump	43	Relegated
C Tour: 1	33	London Revolution	43	C Tour Winners - Promoted
2	34	ABH 2	38	Promoted
3	35	GB Juniors	35	Promoted
4	36	EMO 2	33
5	37	Curve	30
6	38	Bristol Plastic Factory 2	28
7	39	Abstract	25
8	40	Flyght Club 2	23
9	41	Sheffield Steal 2	20
10	42	Wink and the Gun	18
11	43	Lucky Huckers	15
12	44	Leamington Lemmings	13
13	45	The Brown 2	10
14	46	High Flyers	8
15	47	Kent Open 2	5	Spirit of the Game (Open)
16	48	Staffordshire Oat Cakes	3

Open Tour 2 (2008)

Results from Open Tour 2 2008 (26-27 April, Cardiff)

	Pos	Team	Points	Comments
	1	Clapham Ultimate 1	250
	2	Chevron Action Flash	230
	3	Fire of London 1	222
	4	Fusion East	210
	5	Brighton Ultimate 1	205
	6	GB Masters	190	Spirit of the Game (A)
	7	EMO 1	182
	8	LeedsLeedsLeeds	170
	9	Discuits 1	162
	10	Clapham Ultimate 2	150
	11	Devon Ultimate 1	141
	12	Fusion West	130
	13	Bristol Plastic Factory 1	125
	14	Mild Mannered Janitors	110	Relegated
	15	Fire of London 2	101	Relegated
	16	The Brown 1	90	Relegated
B Tour: 1	17	Ltd Release 1	90	B Tour Winners - Promoted Spirit of the Game (B)
2	18	Sheffield Steal 1	78	Promoted
3	19	Vision Ultimate	75	Promoted
4	20	BAF	73
5	21	GB Juniors	70
6	22	L.atitude	68
7	23	ABH 1	65
8	24	Strange Blue	63
9	25	Brighton Ultimate 2	60
10	26	Ltd Release 2	58
11	27	London Revolution	55
12	28	Flyght Club 1	53
13	29	Trigger Happy	50
14	30	ABH 2	48
15	31	Kent Open 1	45
16	32	Red	43
C Tour: 1	33	EMO 2	43	C Tour Winners
2	34	Curve	38
3	35	Abstract	35
4	36	Wink and the Gun	33
5	37	Bristol Plastic Factory 2	30
6	38	Flump	28
7	39	Devon Ultimate 2	25
8	40	Sheffield Steal 2	23
9	41	Discuits 2	20
10	42	The Brown 2	18
11	43	Lucky Huckers	15
12	44	Bournemouth	13
13	45	Leamington Lemmings	10
14	46	Staffordshire Oat Cakes	8	Spirit of the Game (C)
15	47	Flyght Club 2	5
16	48	Kent Open 2	3

Open Tour 3 (2008)

Results from Open Tour 3 (9-10 May, Mansfield):

	Pos	Team	Points	Comments
	1	Fusion East	250
	2	Fire of London 1	230
	3	Chevron Action Flash	222
	4	Clapham Ultimate 1	210
	5	Brighton Ultimate 1	205
	6	EMO 1	190
	7	GB Masters	182	Spirit of the Game (A)
	8	LeedsLeedsLeeds	170
	9	Ltd Release 1	162
	10	Fusion West	150
	11	Discuits 1	141
	12	Clapham Ultimate 2	130
	13	Bristol Plastic Factory 1	125
	14	Sheffield Steal 1	110
	15	Vision Ultimate	101
	16	Devon Ultimate 1	90
B Tour: 1	17	GB Juniors	90	B Tour Winners
2	18	Mild Mannered Janitors	77
3	19	Fire of London 2	74
4	20	ABH 1	71
5	21	BAF	68
6	22	Ltd Release 2	65
7	23	Strange Blue	62
8	24	The Brown 1	59	Spirit of the Game (B)
9	25	EMO 2	56
10	26	London Revolution	53
11	27	Brighton Ultimate 2	50
12	28	curve	47
13	29	Flyght Club 1	44
14	30	Trigger Happy	41
15	31	Abstract	39
16	32	ABH 2	36
C Tour: 1	33	Kent Open 1	36	C Tour Winners
2	34	Red	30
3	35	Sheffield Steal 2	27
4	36	Wink and the Gun	24
5	37	Discuits 2	21
6	38	Leamington Lemmings	18
7	39	Devon Ultimate 2	15
8	40	Flyght Club 2	12
9	41	High Flyers	9	Spirit of the Game (C)
10	42	Staffordshire Oat Cakes	6
11	43	Kent Open 2	3

2007 Nationals (EUCR-West)

2007 UKUA National Champions: Clapham Ultimate

Final positions:

Pos	Team Name
1	Clapham Ultimate 1
2	Fire of London 1
3	Chevron Action Flash (*)
=3	LeedsLeedsLeeds 1
5	Brighton Ultimate 1
=5	Cambo Cakes (Netherlands)
7	Fusion
8	Discuits 1
9	Bristol Plastic Factory
10	EMO
11	Fire of London 2
12	Clapham Ultimate 2
13	BAF
14	Strange Blue
15	Devon
16	Boogie Knights
17	London Revolution
18	Ltd Release 1
19	Flyght Club
20	Sheffield Steal
21	The Brown
22	LeedsLeedsLeeds 2
23	ABH
24	Kent Open
25	Ltd Release 2
26	Lucky Huckers 1
27	Brighton Ultimate 2 (Spirit of the Game)
28	Black Sheep
29	Discuits 2
30	Lucky Huckers 2

(*) Chevron will take the 3rd seed position from West region at European Ultimate Club Finals

2007 Tour

The final standings in the UKUA Open Tour 2007 are as follows:

Pos	Team	Points	Events Played	Average Points*
1	Clapham Ultimate 1	722	3	241
2	Chevron Action Flash	694	3	231
3	Fire of London 1	670	3	223
4	Fusion	650	3	217
5	LeedsLeedsLeeds 1	615	3	205
6	Discuits 1	514	3	171
7	Clapham Ultimate 2	514	3	171
8	Paddy Murphy	513	3	171
9	Brighton Ultimate 1	501	3	167
10	Mild Mannered Janitors	462	3	154
11	Fire of London 2	461	3	154
12	BAF 1	405	3	135
13	Bristol Plastic Factory 1	325	3	108
14	Ltd Release 1	316	3	105
15	EMO	310	3	103
16	The Brown	297	3	99
17	Strange Blue	264	3	88
18	Flyght Club 1	246	3	82
19	Devon 1	241	3	80
20	ABH	205	3	68
21	Boogie Knights	204	3	68
22	LeedsLeedsLeeds 2	195	3	65
23	Abstract 1	176	3	59
24	Sheffield Steal	169	3	56
25	London Revolution	159	3	53
26	Red	140	3	47
27	Brighton Ultimate 2	136	3	45
28	Kent Open	130	3	43
29	Bristol Plastic Factory 2	117	3	39
30	Seamus Murphy	115	3	38
31	ABH 2	106	3	35
32	Black Sheep	85	3	28
33	Ltd Release 2	84	3	28
34	Trigger Happy	82	2	41
35	Discuits 2	64	3	21
36	Mustard	60	1	60
37	UTB	55	3	18
38	Lucky Huckers 1	47	2	24
39	Flump	46	1	46
40	Devon 2	44	3	15
41	Empire	40	1	40
42	Abstract 2	23	1	23
43	BAF 2	23	2	12
44	York Ultimate	22	2	11
45	Curve	21	1	21
46	Kent Open 2	18	1	18
47	Lucky Huckers 2	12	2	6
48	Flyght Club 2	9	2	5
49	ABOUT	7	1	7

Note that where teams are tied on points they are seperated by head-to-head tournament finishing positions over the season. Hence Discuits 1 finish above Clapham 2 as they finished higher than Clapham 2 in two of the three tour events (i.e they win 2-1 on tournament finishing positions).

* Average points per event are included just for interest. Final UKUA Tour Ranking positions are determined by the total score.

Open Tour 1 (2007)

The results from Open Tour 1 (Harlington, 23-24 June) are shown below:

	Pos	Team	Points	Comments
	1	Clapham Ultimate 1	250
	2	Fusion	230	Spirit of the Game (A)
	3	Chevron Action Flash	222
	4	Fire of London 1	210
	5	LeedsLeedsLeeds 1	205
	6	Brighton Ultimate 1	190
	7	Paddy Murphy	182
	8	Discuits 1	170
	9	Clapham Ultimate 2	162
	10	BAF 1	150
	11	Fire of London 2	141
	12	Mild Mannered Janitors	130
	13	Bristol Plastic Factory 1	125
	14	EMO	110	Relegated
	15	Strange Blue	101	Relegated
B Tour	16	The Brown	90	Relegated
1	17	Ltd Release 1	90	B Tour Winners* - Promoted
2	18	Flyght Club	77	Promoted
3	19	Devon 1	74	Promoted
4	20	ABH	71
5	21	LeedsLeedsLeeds 2	69
6	22	Boogie Knights	66
7	23	Sheffield Steal	63
8	24	Mustard	60
9	25	Abstract 1	57
10	26	Bristol Plastic Factory 2	54
11	27	Seamus Murphy	51
12	28	Red	49
13	29	Flump	46	B Tour Plate Winners
14	30	Brighton Ultimate 2	43
15	31	Empire	40
16	32	Kent Open	37
17	33	ABH 2	34
18	34	London Revolution	31
19	35	Trigger Happy	29
20	36	Discuits 2	26
21	37	Abstract 2	23
22	38	Ltd Release 2	20
23	39	Lucky Huckers 1	17
24	40	BAF 2	14
25	41	Black Sheep	11
26	42	Lucky Huckers 2	9	Spirit of the Game (B)
27	43	UTB	6
28	44	Devon 2	3

* Note that the winner of the B Tour now receives a bonus of 10 points.

Open Tour 2 (2007)

The results of Open Tour 2 (Mansfield, 14-15 July) are shown below:

	Pos	Team	Points	Comments
	1	Chevron Action Flash	250
	2	Fire of London 1	230
	3	Clapham Ultimate 1	222
	4	Fusion	210	Spirit of the Game (A)
	5	LeedsLeedsLeeds 1	205
	6	Paddy Murphy	190
	7	Discuits 1	182
	8	Fire of London 2	170
	9	Clapham Ultimate 2	162
	10	Mild Mannered Janitors	150
	11	Brighton Ultimate 1	141
	12	BAF 1	130
	13	Ltd Release 1	125
	14	Bristol Plastic Factory 1	110	Relegated
	15	Flyght Club 1	101	Relegated
B Tour	16	Devon 1	90	Relegated
1	17	EMO	90	B Tour Winners - Promoted
2	18	The Brown	77	Promoted
3	19	Strange Blue	73	Promoted
4	20	LeedsLeedsLeeds 2	70
5	21	Boogie Knights	67
6	22	London Revolution	63
7	23	ABH	60
8	24	Abstract 1	57	Spirit of the Game (B)
9	25	Trigger Happy	53
10	26	Red	50
11	27	Sheffield Steal	47
12	28	Brighton Ultimate 2	43
13	29	Kent Open	40	B Tour Plate Winners
14	30	Seamus Murphy	37
15	31	ABH 2	33
16	32	Bristol Plastic Factory 2	30
17	33	Black Sheep	27
18	34	Discuits 2	23
19	35	Ltd Release 2	20
20	36	Devon 2	17
21	37	UTB	13
22	38	York Ultimate	10
23	39	ABOUT	7
24	40	Flyght Club 2	3

Open Tour 3 (2007)

The results from Open Tour 3 (Cardiff, 18-19 August) are shown below:

	Pos	Team	Points	Comments
	1	Clapham Ultimate 1	250
	2	Fire of London 1	230
	3	Chevron Action Flash	222	Spirit of the Game (A)
	4	Fusion	210
	5	LeedsLeedsLeeds 1	205
	6	Clapham Ultimate 2	190
	7	Mild Mannered Janitors	182
	8	Brighton Ultimate 1	170
	9	Discuits 1	162
	10	Fire of London 2	150
	11	Paddy Murphy	141
	12	The Brown	130
	13	BAF 1	125
	14	EMO	110
	15	Ltd Release 1	101
B Tour Pos	16	Strange Blue	90
1	17	Bristol Plastic Factory 1	90	B Tour Winners*
2	18	Devon 1	77	Spirit of the Game (B)
3	19	ABH	74
4	20	Boogie Knights	71
5	21	Flyght Club 1	68
6	22	London Revolution	65
7	23	Abstract 1	62
8	24	Sheffield Steal	59
9	25	LeedsLeedsLeeds 2	56
10	26	Kent Open	53
11	27	Brighton Ultimate 2	50
12	28	Black Sheep	47
13	29	Ltd Release 2	44	B Tour Plate Winners
14	30	Red	41
15	31	ABH 2	39
16	32	UTB	36
17	33	Bristol Plastic Factory 2	33
18	34	Lucky Huckers 1	30
19	35	Seamus Murphy	27
20	36	Devon 2	24
21	37	Curve	21
22	38	Kent Open 2	18
23	39	Discuits 2	15
24	40	York Ultimate	12
25	41	BAF 2	9
26	42	Flyght Club 2	6
27	43	Lucky Huckers 2	3

* Winners of the B Tour receive a 10 point bonus

2006 Nationals

2006 UKUA National Champions: Clapham Ultimate

Final Positions

1. Clapham Ultimate

2. Fire of London 1

3. Fusion

4. Chevron Action Flash

5. Brighton

6. BAF

7. Leeds Leeds Leeds

8. EMO

9. Fire of London 2

10. Ltd Release

11. Bristol Plastic Factory 1

12. Janitors

13. Discuits

14. Sheffield Steal 1

15. Tenacious Devon

16. ABH

17. Strange Blue

18. Trigger Happy

19. Flyght Club

20. Sublime

21. Abstract

22. GB Juniors

23. York Ultimate

24. Bristol Plastic Factory 2

25. EMO 2

26. Brighton 2

27. Lord of the Rings

28. Boogie Knights

29. Sheffield Steal 2

2006 Tour

2006 Tour Champions: Clapham Ultimate

Full results are available here.

2005 Nationals

2005 UKUA National Champions: Clapham Ultimate

Pos	Team
1	Clapham Ultimate
2	LeedsLeedsLeeds
3	Chevron
4	Fire of London
5	Fusion
6	BAF
7	Bristol
8	EMO
9	Discuits
10	Sheffield Steal 1
11	Brighton
12	Ltd Release
13	Mild Mannered Janitors
14	No-Lo
15	Flyght Club
16	Strange Blue
17	UTB
18	ABH
19	Trigger Happy
20	Motion
21	Lords of the Ring
22	Discuits 2
23	Lucky Huckers
24	Aye-Aye
25	Sheffield Steal 2
26	Brighton 2

Spirit of the Game awarded to: Sheffield Steal 2

2005 Tour

2005 Tour Champions: Fire of London

Full results are available here.

2007 Tour Rules

Contents:

Introduction
Rosters
Kit
Entering Tour Tournaments
Ranking Points
Tournament Formats
Seeding
Penalties

View the full rules here

Non UK teams and the UKUA Tour

The page provides an outline of our current "policy" for non UK teams entering the UKUA Tour.

There is also (temporarily) an update on the current situation regarding Tour One 2007 in this context.

It is the UKUA's current and long-standing view that some non-UK based teams entering Tour events is basically a good thing - despite the fact that it does create complications around seeding, etc. The goal of encouraging this would be to have some variety and additional strong teams in the tournaments could be of great value in providing teams with the opportunity to play against teams that they do not know. We would expect to limit the number of non UK teams at any given event to one or two (and certainly only one in the A Tour).

In 2007 we have introduced some changes to try to mitigate some of the problems that can be created by strong teams entering one A Tour event.

1. It is our preference to run the A Tour as a 16 team event - but we introduced the option of creating an 18 team format if a foreign team entered AFTER the promotion/relegation places had been finalised from a previous Tour event.

2. At Tour Zero the format was carefully designed with specific attention on the final positions 11-14 as they were the key positions in terms of starting the season in the A Tour or not.

3. We had strong indication of interest in entering Tour One from BigEZ (who finished 4th at EUCF06) prior to Tour Zero's format being finalised. So - it was designed on the basis of 11 teams qualifying for the A Tour. Teams at Tour Zero were informed of this prior to playing - which meant we would be able to stick with the preferred 16 team format at Tour One.

Update re Tour One 2007 (5th April)

Unfortunately we have now had confirmation that BigEZ will not be able to attend Tour One. However - given that all the teams at Tour Zero were aware that 11th place was the last A Tour qualification place we intend to keep the space open for a strong foriegn team until the closing date for entry to Tour One. NB - this is really only possible because the Tour One will host the A and B tour events at the same location. If that was not the case we would clearly need to make a decision sooner in order that The Brown were able to plan their travel.

The Brown have been informed of the situation directly in the last few days - and we would like to thank them for taking the situation "on the chin" without complaint!