#WCBU2017 Stories

The World Championships of Beach Ultimate have finished, and the champions crowned. After a week of sensational Ultimate on the beaches of Royan, let’s have a look at how things shook out at the top [Read More…]

The previous post was an in-depth look at the whole tournament, but here are a few storylines from Royan that are worth pointing out. Spirit is the Ultimate winner The spirit scores all week were [Read More…]

Now that the tournament is very near to finishing, we decided to run a fantasy draft with our writers picking a Mixed team of the best players we’ve seen at this tournament. Given that we [Read More…]

There are many things that make this sport unique. The Spirit of the Game, the respect between you and your opponent, the community. It’s a giant family that once you’re a part of, you’re there [Read More…]

Canada have been notable at this event for their desire to huck it at every possible opportunity, across all divisions. Their conversaion rate has typically not been high, but given the fact that they play [Read More…]

The USA start the game strong and for the first three points the Swiss struggle to make it out of their own half of the field. Although the USA could have been punished after throwing [Read More…]

The dust has settled on an eventful day five of WCBU and we have some of our finalists. The Men’s division played out some entertaining quarter and semi finals, while the rest of the tournament [Read More…]

Great Britain and Spain faced off for a spot in the Masters semi-finals earlier today. The teams were pretty evenly matched and had each had similar results in the lead up to the game. Britain [Read More…]

Germany come into this match having yet to be defeated, one of the last remaining powerhouses to have not suffered some sort of upset this tournament. Great Britain just beat an Italy side who yesterday [Read More…]

Background When you get to the top eight Women’s teams in the world, it’s always going to be tough to separate them. And both teams have shown they deserve to be top eight. Honestly, Denmark [Read More…]

Background By the time you reach the quarter-finals, you are guaranteed a good game. There are no easy opponents. This is exemplified with Portugal vs Canada. Two great teams, both looking to reach the top [Read More…]

Background It’s the last game in the power pools of the Women’s division. Teams are trying to boost their seeding as much as possible in order to get the best pre-quarter (last 16) game that [Read More…]