Basics
We play by USA Ultimate's rule set. For specifics on these rules, you can visit USAU's Rules Page.
Game Schedule
- 8:00 – warm-ups
- 8:10 – 5 minute warning (captains flip for pull)
- 8:15 – games begin, promptly
- 9:40 – softcap (Finish current point. Add one to highest score and play to that.)
- 9:50 – hardcap (Finish the current point. If tied, play one more.)
- 10:00 – Cheer your opponent! (also, lights out)
Mixed Division On-Field Personnel Ratio
The default personnel ratio for the mixed division is 4/3 (four woman-matching and three man-matching or four man-matching and three woman-matching). Teams were formed with this ratio in mind. The ratio on the field for a given point will be decided by the following from USAU's Personnel Ratio Rules:
Prescribed Ratio Rule (ABBA)
At the start of the game, after the first disc flip, an additional disc flip happens with the winner selecting the gender ratio for the first point. For the second and third points the ratio must be the reverse of the first point. For the fourth and fifth points the ratio must be the same as the first point. This pattern of alternating the ratio every two points repeats until the end of the game. Halftime does not impact the pattern.
If the attendance of both teams is not balanced, the captains should take this into account and agree how to handle it, possibly by playing the problematic ratio less or not at all.
The gender with 4 players on the field should be the one to pull (ex. if the point being played has four woman-matching players, a woman-matching player should pull the disc). If missing players impact the ability to play 4 of a specific gender, you should still consider allowing both genders to pull.
League Specific Rules
Points
Games to 15
Mirror
- Mirror at half
- No halftime
Time Caps
- Softcap at 20 minutes before end of game.
- For capping purposes, a point is considered to begin immediately after the preceding goal is scored.
- Finish the current point and then set a new game total at the highest current score +1 unless the original game total has already been reached.
- First team to game total wins.
- Hard cap at 10 minutes before end of game.
- For capping purposes, a point is considered to begin immediately after the preceding goal is scored.
- Finish the current point. The game is over unless it's a tie.
- If the game is tied, play one more point.
- If the lights go out before a game is officially over, the game will end immediately. If the disc is in the air when the lights go out and it is caught in the dark in the end zone for a score, it will count. In any other situation, the game will immediately end even if it is mid-point. If the game is tied, the game will be scored as a tie.
Timeouts
- 3 timeouts per game, max 2 per half
- No timeouts in hardcap
- No subs in a timeout
Pull Rule
If disc lands on the playing field (or end zone):
- play from where it lands
- do NOT walk it up to the line
If disc lands out, the player has following options:
- call middle (if disc goes out the side in FRONT of the brick line) - take disc to the middle at the point where the disc last crossed the perimeter line
- call brick (if disc goes out anywhere BEHIND the brick line) - take the disc to the middle at the brick line (15 yards)
- play from the closest spot on the playing field proper (not the end zone) to where the disc last went out
- side line if in front of the end zone
- closest front corner if behind the end zone and went out the side
- straight up to the line if it goes out the back
If disc lands in and ROLLS out:
- play from spot on the playing field proper (not end zone) where the disc rolled out
- side line if in front of the end zone
- closest front corner if behind the end zone and went out the side
- straight up to the line if it goes out the back
Subject to change.
