[BD] Major League Ultimate 2009

[Paul Hurt]

Great quote on the end there... must remember that.

As for making Ultimate "accepted" I agree that the self-officiated  
nature of the game is an obstacle. But that could be fixed with:

1) a few officials with whistles timing things
2) a scoreboard that spectators CAN ACTUALLY SEE CLEARLY
3) playing to time
4) banning subs from walking up and down the sideline  - what other  
team sport is there where non-playing team members can and regularly  
do stand on the playing field?

No need to actually remove the players' responsibility for making  
calls. In fact, get a sound guy in there with a boom mic so that the  
spectators can hear the discussion!

They tried some of this at World Games a few years ago, and it seemed  
to work.

Paul



On 13 Jan 2009, at 00:35, David Greenberg wrote:

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> Spirit of the game is both the greatest thing about Ultimate and the  
> biggest pick to it becoming universally accepted and becoming the  
> massively commercialised, marketed, popular spectator sport next to  
> Football, American Football, Basketball, Rugby, Baseball...and you  
> know what? If it was like any of those I'd go and find another  
> sport, or join the masses still playing the original form of  
> Ultimate with SOTG. Having said that, I would love to experience a  
> refereed format of the game. It doesn't sound too bad not having to  
> watch for travels while stalling, maintaining disc space and  
> ultimately trying to get your hand in the way of your opponents  
> released disc. Let someone else do the rules and just focus on the  
> throwers movements ready to get the hand-block-catch-callahan. Not  
> to mention the impartial view of whether or not the foot was on the  
> line or if the disc was up. What do we value more, playing a sport  
> involving a disc to the best of our abilities or playing Ultimate?  
> My opinion, let it evolve into the two distinct sports it wants to  
> be, everyone will still be able to play both forms seperately and  
> when they do they will know by which rules they are playing. 'If you  
> want to truly understand something, try to change it' - kurt Lewin.