The Argonne Ultimate Frisbee Club

The Argonne Ultimate Frisbee Club is the official name for the group of folks who meet regularly on the grounds of Argonne National Lab to play Ultimate.

 

 

Ultimate

Ultimate is a game played with a frisbee that has some elements of soccer, basketball, and football. The Ultimate Players Assocation has a good introduction to the game on their website. It's also pretty well described in 10 simple rules.

More information about Ultimate can be found in the links section below.

 

The Argonne Ultimate Games

The games at Argonne are pick-up games. Anyone who works at Argonne or is a friend of someone who works at Argonne is more than welcome to come out and play.

We play following the Official Rules of Ultimate, with a few local customizations that help to speed up play and adapt the rules to our loosely-organized group of players.

We generally play:

Frequency of play varies with the weather, the number of summer of students around, and how busy everyone is. Sometimes during the summer, there's a game every day. During the spring and fall, we slow down to the above schedule.

Last winter, Nick managed to get us set up to play weekly at the Darien Sportsplex.   See here for details about indoor ultimate.

So... how do you find out if there's a game? Well, you join the mailing list.

 

The Ultimate Disc Mailing List

The Disc mailing list is an email list of people who regularly play Ultimate at Argonne. Typically someone will send mail to the list in the morning to get a poll of how many folks want to play, and then they will let everyone know if there will be a game or not.

To send email to the list, email: disc@mcs.anl.gov

To subscribe to the mailing list, send email to majordomo@mcs.anl.gov. In the body of your mail (not in the Subject line), put the phrase

subscribe disc

To unsubscribe from the mailing list, send email to majordomo@mcs.anl.gov. In the body of your mail (again, not in the Subject line), put the phrase:

unsubscribe disc

If you send your unsubscribe mail from some address other than where you subscribed from, you may have to send mail like this instead:

unsubscribe disc <insert your old email address here>

 

Official Ultimate Club Information

Through the efforts of Deborah Zurawski, we've organized into an officially recognized Argonne Club. In practical terms, being a club means that we have dues, get a bit of financial help from Argonne, and can therefore buy equipment for the group.

The officers for 1997-1998, as voted upon by the members on December 4th, 1997, are:

Other club info:

 

Local Rule Modifications

Here are the things we do differently that other Ultimate groups. (Details are in the club's bylaws.)

  1. Once a goal is scored by one team, possession of the Frisbee is usually retained by the scoring team. The teams switch endzones. The members of the team that just scored a point must hold their field position at the time of the goal until the disc is called into play. The other team can adjust their field positions, and then someone on that team calls "disc in".
  2. Score is usually not kept until the last few minutes of the game period, at which point folks will decide on a game to 3, or a game to 5.
  3. We don't worry too much about the official size of the field or the number of players.
  4. We do believe in Spirit of the Game, and ask everyone to adhere to those guidelines. The most important aspect of these games is that everyone have a good time. Serious disputes are called with a head-or-tails flip of the frisbee.
  5. We don't have any specific teams. People usually self-organize into teams after warm-up, with a somewhat implicit goal of playing with a different set of folks than in recent games.

 

Ultimate On The Web

There's a lot of Ultimate information out there. Here are some links to get you started. (A few of the really useful pages have been cached locally because of that annoying tendency of good web sites to go away.)

It's also worth noting that Ultimate information and players can be found in the Usenet newsgroup rec.sport.disc, which is available to Argonne employees.

Ultimate and Disc Sports Organizations

Skills and Technique

Stores

For other on-line stores, you should see the links pages and the FAQs pages. There are a lot of them out there. Keeping a useful list up to date here would be pretty hard. Note - if you buy something over the net, use mail order - don't send credit card info over the net yet.

Pages of Links and Information

 

Last updated on February 22, 1999.
This page is maintained by Remy Evard.
Please send any comments to evard@mcs.anl.gov.