Regional Rotation System

The concept of a rotation system for UU national competitions was born at the UU AGM in 2003 and seeked to solve the location problems that, under the previous method of allocation, could see a player spending the entirety of their University Ultimate career having to travel the length of the country to play Nationals. It was also acknowledged that knowing which region were to host Nationals would allow teams to adequately prepare for the event.

It was decided to split the UK into 3 regions - Scotland, The North & Midlands and The South - and to implement a 4-year rotation system for the Indoor & Outdoor Open Championships with a weighting of 2:1:1 in favour of the larger North/Midlands region.

Open Indoor and Outdoor Nationals will be in specifically paired regions that change each year so that travel times are roughly equal for all teams across the 4 year rotation. Twice in the four years, the North & Midlands will hold Outdoor Nationals, and during these years, Indoor Nationals will be in both Scotland and The South exactly once. When Outdoor Nationals is in Scotland or the South, Indoor Nationals will be in the North & Midlands.

The relative youth of the Women's and Mixed competitions meant that they were not included in the rotation system and so the University Committee seek to hold these as centrally as possible.

The 2003/2004 season was the first season in which a rotation system for Division 1 Nationals was implemented and subsequently corresponds to 'year 1' above.

In 2005 it was further decided that Division 2 Nationals (previously NTN) would follow the system on a one year down basis.