Types of event
We hold different types of sessions for different purposes and aimed at different levels of play. Here are the terms we use:
Beginner: the basics of the sport, aimed at (but not limited to!) people who have been playing ultimate regularly for under 6 months. No experience required.
Fundamentals: working on fundamental skills, valuable at every level of play. No experience required, but also useful to players with experience.
Advanced: working on more advanced topics and/or playing at higher intensity. We recommend that attendees are comfortable with forehands and backhands at middle distance, familiar with the concept of the open and break sides, have experience with vertical and horizontal stacks, and are ready to run hard! Let us know if you'd like any of these topics covered more in our other sessions. You must also have studded shoes, if playing on grass.
Club: sessions aimed at people competing at the level of selective club teams, or working to get there in the coming season. Club is the division of competition available to everyone (i.e. not just students) and sanctioned by National Governing Body UK Ultimate.
Cambridge Ultimate: sessions held for the benefit of that competitive club team, usually for a limited squad preparing for competition. Non-CUlt players may be invited as development prospects or to provide high-level opposition.
More generally, ultimate is played under these divisions:
Divisions
Gender
Ultimate is played under:
Open [O]: no gender restrictions
Women's [W]: all players must be woman-matching
Mixed [X]: 50-50 split of man- and woman-matching players
In general, our training and competitions, plus the overwhelming majority of the competitions we enter, are played under the UKU gender policy: "UKU supports a[n] ... inclusive and equal approach welcoming all players to play in the division (or gender role in the mixed division) that they identify with".
Events without an explicit gender division are assumed to be "loose Mixed": played with whatever gender ratio is in attendance (other Mixed variants exist for specific gender ratios).
Surface
Ultimate is played on:
Indoor and beach ultimate use smaller fields and teams. Cambridge Ultimate sometimes competes in these variants too.
Age
Most of the club's competitions are played without age restrictions, although under-16s attending our local events must be accompanied by a parent or guardian, as must under-18s traveling for competition. Elsewhere there are Youth competitions (U14, U17, U20, U24), as well as Masters (>=30 for woman-matching players, >=33 for man-matching players), GrandMasters (37, 40), and Great-GrandMasters (45, 48).