WODS Specific Rules for Ultimate

Rules may be modified with the approval of both team captains prior to the start of the game (provided the modifications do not pose a safety concern).  Any disagreements on the applications of the rules which can not be settled by the players involved should be should be settled by the team captains.  Requests for clarifications and/or changes to the rules listed below should be directed to the League Coordinator or to the Leagues Director.

Winter League

UPA 11th edition rules with the following exceptions:

• Following a goal, the opposite end zone will be considered out of bounds.  Upon the completion of one throw by the offense, normal boundary designations resume.  (ie completed throws from end zone to end zone following immediately after a goal result in a turnover.)

Courtesy of the Association De Ultimate De Montreal (http://www.montrealultimate.ca/irules.htm):

• Games are timed to 50 minutes (2 halves of 25 min) with an additional 3-minute half-time.  The end of a game is determined by time, not by the score. Games can end even if the score is tied.
• The 10-second stall count is replaced by an 8-second stall count. In every situation where the stall count usually goes back to 5 (ex. contested foul), the stall count will go back to 4.
• There is no pull after a point. When a team scores, the player who has possession of the disc PLACES IT GENTLY on the ground at the first point of contact where the goal was scored. Also, the player acknowledges that he/she has scored a goal by raising the disc over his/her head. The offensive team has 8 seconds to take possession of the disc and cannot walk the disc up to the front of the goal line. They must put the disc into play from the first point of contact where the goal was scored. When the offensive team takes possession of the disc, the defensive team may initiate a stall count on 0 (as in every other situation, the player on defense must be within 3 metres to initiate a stall count). If the team on offense does not take possession of the disc within the time allotted (8 seconds) they will be assessed a timeout. If they have no timeouts left, the defensive team gains possession of the disc on the goal line.
• Players sub on the fly. Each player exiting the field must “high five” the player who will be replacing her before she can exit the field, and the player entering the field cannot do so until she has “high fived” the player exiting the field. This obviously does not apply during injury substitutions. If a substitution results in too many players, of either gender, on the field, the result is an automatic turnover and the defensive team takes possession of the disc at the area of the stoppage of play due to the violation.
• If a pull lands out of bounds, a brick may be taken to the middle point of the front line of the end zone. If the pull lands in bounds, it will be played from where it lands. If a pull lands in bounds and rolls out, it will be played from the closest point on the field (including the end zone) to where it rolled out.
• If a team gains possession in the end zone which it is defending following a turnover, the player taking possession may bring the disc to the front of the end zone. If the player who picks up the disc establishes a pivot foot, however, he/she may not then decide to walk the disc up to the front, as per UPA 11th Edition rules.
• Two 30-second timeouts are allowed per game. Regardless of how many timeouts a team has, no team is allowed to call time outs in the last 5 minutes of the game. A team will suffer a loss of possession of the disc if they call a timeout when they have already used their 2 available timeouts. Injury substitutions do not constitute a timeout.
• If a team is not ready to play at the official start time the other team may immediately assess 1 point if they have all their players on the line ready to play. They may assess an additional point at 2 minute intervals.
• To be legal, a team must have at least 3 players on the playing surface, although, they cannot have more than 3 men at the same time.

Summer League

UPA 11th edition rules with the following specifications:

• Games are to 15
• By default, foot blocks are considered a foul unless captains from both competing teams decide to allow them
• Soft cap will be applied at 1 hour and 50 minutes of play
• Hard cap is applied at the scheduled end of play (typically 8:30 pm) or at nightfall, which ever comes first.
• In reference to the UPA 11th edition rules VIII.A.1 (Start of game)

“Representatives of the two teams fairly determine which team chooses to
a) receive or throw the initial pull; or
b) which end zone they wish to initially defend.”

The “fair determining” method (FDM) will be a tally of the number of motorized vehicles used to get to the game by either team (electric scooters and gas vehicles which get over 80 mpg count as half a vehicle.)  The team with the lowest tally chooses first.  This replaces the traditional disc flip or rock paper scissors determination methods.

Tournaments

Rules are at the discretion of the tournament coordinator and will be specified in the tournament description but are typically the UPA 11th edition rules

Fall League
UPA 11th edition rules with the following exceptions and specifications:

• Foot blocks are not permitted by default but may be reintroduced into the game if agreed upon by the captains of both teams
• A 30 minute warm-up and training period will precede each game
• Games are played to 1.5 hours in length; the end of a game is determined by time, not by the score. Games can end even if the score is tied.

Last Updated May 12, 2009