Today at 1 PM, A Live Chat With USA Ultimate About The Triple Crown Tour

November 1, 2012 by Charlie Eisenhood in News with 6 Comments

The logo of USA Ultimate, the sport's national governing body. There are a lot of questions buzzing about the Triple Crown Tour, USA Ultimate’s recently announced Club restructuring. To that end, Ultiworld will be hosting a live Q&A today at 1 PM EST with USA Ultimate CEO Tom Crawford, Managing Director of Competition and Athlete Programs Will Deaver, and Communications Director Andy Lee about the big changes for next year’s Club season.

We will be taking questions via the comments of this post, Twitter, and, of course, during the live chat itself. This is an opportunity to talk directly with the top USAU leadership about the new system.

If you will be unable to follow along during the chat itself, don’t worry: we will recap everything on Monday. You can still have a question answered by commenting below.

Don’t be a troll: only serious questions will be considered for inclusion in the chat.

Tagged andy lee, mixed, Open, Tom Crawford, Triple Crown Tour, USA Ultimate, Will Deaver, womens

About Charlie Eisenhood

Charlie Eisenhood is the editor-in-chief of Ultiworld. He started playing Ultimate in Albuquerque, New Mexico as a high school student. He captained NYU's college team and has played Open Club with Sweet Roll (Albuquerque) and Medicine Men (Baltimore). He lives in Brooklyn. You can reach him by email (charlie@ultiworld.com) or on Twitter (@ceisenhood).

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Krishna

Awesome. Thanks for doing this Ultiworld and USAU
George

Most elite club teams fly to 2 tournaments each club season before nationals. The new pro requirement is potentially 3 tournaments with expensive traveling requirements with additional days off (US Open was a 4-5 day tournament). It seems like USA-Ultimate expects a lot of buy-in from Pro teams without much assistance from the organization. Why set up these expectations? What happens when Pro teams do not have the buy-in required (this holds especially true for mixed teams)? Whose fault is this ( I think it should fall on USA – Ultimate)?
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George

A second question; why does USA-Ultimate feel like tournaments are the best way to showcase the best Frisbee? Tournaments are great for players since it helps displace traveling costs to play multiple games, but for spectators it can be confusing to choose the best games; and difficult to have a positive viewing experience (lack of bleachers); plus there lacks a sort of energy when multiple games are going on. In my opinion, the AUDL/MLU experience is better for fans/media.
Rama

Since no one else is asking questions, I have a few:

1) What happens when Nationals level teams turnover (split into two teams, disband, recruit a mostly different core)? How will qualification for the tiers be determined in that case? In the case of a team disbanding how will USAU compare losers of the game to go in different regions?

2) The decision to award some strength wildcards based entirely on performance last season (Pro Flight Wildcards) without considering any results from the current season seems like a step backwards. For example, had the Triple Crown been implemented last year, District 5 would have earned a strength bid this year, despite the fact that this year based on RRI they are ranked somewhere around 45. If everything went to seed, a more deserving team would miss out on a spot at Nationals. Doesn’t that seem like a problem?

3) Will the ranking algorithm be revised in time for the next season in light of the problems with it that have been discussed and the issue of decreased crossover between tiers?
Knappy

what do they think are some of the potential challenges of the Triple Crown format? How do they intend to address those challenges?
The Triple Crown seems designed to showcase the sport & to best fit the needs of the Open (now Men’s) division. Were alternative structures considered for just the mixed & women’s divisions?

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