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 Ultimate

Ultimate combines the non-stop movement and athletic endurance of soccer with the aerial passing skills of football, and positioning and defense of basketball.  A game of Ultimate is played by two seven-player squads with a high-tech plastic disc on a field similar to football. The object of the game is to score by catching a pass in the opponent’s end zone. A player must stop running while in possession of the disc, but may pivot and pass to any of the other receivers on the field.  Ultimate is a transition game in which players move quickly from offense to defense on turnovers that occur with a dropped pass, an interception, a pass out of bounds, or when a player is caught holding the disc for more than ten seconds. Ultimate is governed by Spirit of the Game, a tradition of sportsmanship that places the responsibility for fair play on the players rather than referees. Ultimate is played in more than 42 countries by hundreds of thousands of men and women, girls and boys.

Sources:  UPA.org, Discraft.com

Ultimate can be played in any weather.  This photo was captured January 9, 2006.

Although Ultimate is governed by the spirit of the game, players are encouraged to play with intensity.

This photo was taken during the longest Ultimate game ever played.  The game started Thursday April 19, 2007 at 4:00 pm and ended Sunday, April 22 at midnight at Concordia University Seward, Nebraska.  The final score was 801 to 789.

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