EuroZone

Sean is joined by EuroZone stalwart Liam Grant to discuss how the planning for WUCC 2026 is going, how the Spring Tour tournaments went and what they expect to happen at Tom's Tourney this weekend. The rankings hadn't been updated when they spoke, so Liam fills the space by going on a couple of patented rants instead.

We are back! Sean speaks to Stef Rappazzo to discuss all the news you need to know to get ready for another huge year. There's player moves, tournament discussion and some news about the biggest teams in Europe as we prepare for 2025 season.

Sean speaks to Jakob Tamm and Daan De Marrée, two of Ultiworld's European Players of the Year, about winning their awards. They talk about their seasons as individuals, what it meant to achieve things with the teams they were on and how they got to this point in their careers. Plus, Daan talks about his experiences with Machine over in the USA and with Belgium for the last couple of seasons!Note: Sean plans to talk with Floor Keulartz, the European Women's Player of the Year, later this month.

Sean is joined by Benjy Rees and Amelia Durbin to reflect on the 2024 season. They talk about the new structure, how it went and what we might see in the future, as well as look back on EUCF and talk about the upsets, the standout players and yes, of course, the weather.

Sean is joined by Hannah Pendlebury to talk about everything relating to WUC, what will happen in Australia and which of the European teams might do best.Watch the World Ultimate Championships with an Ultiworld Subscription or event pack!https://ultiworld.com/event/165874/2024-world-ultimate-championships/

Sean returns for a look back at the season and a look forward to EUCF with Benjy Rees! They also talk WJUC, EYUC and some WUC at the end too, and the discussion also features thoughts on the EUCS ranking system and who might win once we get to Belgium for Euros!

Sean and Ravi sit down to talk about all three divisions, about the teams you should be paying attention to, about the players that we'll be seeing dominate the fields in the Netherlands and about the teams they'll both be involved with. They also make what will almost certainly be totally correct predictions.

Windmill is set to be even bigger than usual this year, so we're going big at EuroZone too. In this episode Sean speaks to Stef Rappazzo, the brains behind the Tokay SuperTeam project, about the team and what it could achieve. Then he speaks to Ultiworld editor-in-chief Charlie Eisenhood about his first Windmill, the decision to stream it and what he thinks might happen with the American teams! We'll be back with a division-by-division preview soon...

This season we have a new EUCS structure, a new rankings system and the new broadcast deal covering all the games. It's a lot of change! EUF Events Manager Felix 'Nemo' Nemec came on the pod to talk about the changes from EUF's perspective, reflect on how they're all going and talk about what might be coming next.

Sean is joined by Ranelagh's Sam Murphy to talk Tom's, the EUCS structure and what we might be seeing at Elite Invite as well as some discussion about the season more widely and how Ranelagh are looking this year.

EUCF is here! The club season has all been building to this point, with the best teams in Europe fighting it out for the title of European champion. Will we see any shock winners this time around? Which teams are in with a shot? Which pools are the ones to keep an eye on? Sean and Benjy Rees go through it all and pick their winners.

It's EUCF hype on EuroZone this week as Sean talks to two experts on countries that could have a big impact in Wroclaw. First it's an Oktoberfest celebration as Kim Gietzen of the Stalling Podcast helps us get a grip on the German teams going to Euros, as well as about the German national team programme's status. Then it's Liam Grant talking about surprises at Irish nationals and whether the top two teams coming out of the country can compete at the top of their divisions. More to come, so stay tuned!

Sean speaks again with Stefan Rappazzo about the teams that qualified for EUCF this season in each of the regions. They start out talking about the Central region Stef was at, then move to the South, the East and North and finish with the West.

Sean is joined by Hannah Pendlebury to talk about the East mixed qualifiers for EUCR and preview the largest qualifier, UK Nationals in Nottingham. They also talk about some of the other regionals and a couple of bits of news around player and team movement.

Sean speaks with Stefan Rappazzo about what happened at the European Youth Ultimate Championships and who the main players to watch in the next few years are. They chat a bit about EUC and Stef's thoughts on what happened in Limerick, then about about the upcoming qualifiers for EUCF across Europe next week and about the club season so far.

Sean speaks to commentator Benjy Rees about what happened at EUC, and what it might mean going forward into this season and the future. They talk about the teams that won, the players that made a name for themselves and the most exciting games in Limerick, and end by picking a line of the tournament for each division!

Sean talks with Lorcán Murray, giving a recap of U24s and preview the ongoing European Ultimate Championships in Lorcán's beloved Limerick. They talk about all three divisions and the teams that you need to be paying attention to.

Sean talks to Rachel Douglas and Benjy Rees about what happened at London Invite and they talk about the upcoming World Under-24 Ultimate Championships in Nottingham: which European teams will be best, and can anyone can compete with the US? They also talk about Swiss nationals and there's some chat about EUC.

Sean is joined by EUC and EUCF-winning coach Ian French to talk all things Windmill, discuss Ian's tiers for EUC and have a quick look ahead to London Invite this coming weekend.

Sean is joined by his predecessor in the hot seat, Ravi Vasudevan, to talk all things Windmill! They discuss each division, who's looking good to win the title and make predictions, as well as chat about some of the storylines from the European beach club championships this past weekend.

Sean is joined by Hannah Pendlebury to talk about the Elite Invite, the shock results and what it might mean for the rest of the season.

Sean brings on commentator and his GBXM teammate Rachel Douglas to do a very quick preview of Elite Invite as well as discuss the Belgium Open with some international open teams at the weekend.

European ultimate is in full swing, with invite tournaments for the top national teams coming seemingly every week. This week Sean is joined by Benjy Rees and Christina Obermayer as they look back at the mixed teams in Frankfurt and ahead to the open teams in Brussels this coming weekend.This episode is sponsored by Tokay Ultimate.

Ravi and Liam bring on Sean Colfer who will be taking over EuroZone this year. They recap the Spring Invites and Tom's Tourney and preview the Frankfurt Invite and Vienna Spring Break.This episode is sponsored by Tokay Ultimate and Breakmark Ultimate.

Ravi had COVID, Liam played EBUCC, so the boys have a bit of a delayed recap of EUCF and EBUCC.

Ravi and Liam talk about what's happened since worlds. They then preview the three divisions at the EUCF.

So Ultimate won't be in the Olympics. Ravi and Liam break that down and talk about the upcoming EUC Series with Women's EUCRs being cancelled across the board. Then they recap WUCC across all divisions and talk about some of the main controversies of the tournament including edge spiking, continuation rules, and dangerous plays.

Ravi and Liam look through all the WUCC Pools and give their picks for each division. How will the European teams do this time?

Ravi and Liam recap the world games. They talk all about commentating the event as well as the results, how proud they are of the European teams and how Liam's pulling rule was an unmitigated success.

Ravi and Liam are back and they recap the European season so far. Ravi then talks about playing with EuroTrash at Windmill and Liam talks about being the Tournament Director at WMUCC. They cap off the episode previewing the World Games.

Ravi and Liam discuss USAU nationals and how the results may impact some of the European teams going to WUCC next year. They also rant about how bad the ESPN deal is.WFDF's Brian Gisel comes on to explain how the bids work out for WUCC. They also talk about the other World's events for next year including the fact that Russia cannot go to events in the United States for the foreseeable future.

Ravi and Liam are back from their weekend in Bruges. They recap each division of the biggest club tournament of the year in Europe.

European club ultimate is back! Ravi and Liam break down the upcoming XEUCF in great detail including their bracket picks for each division.

Ravi and Liam recap the Basel Open and National Championships all around Europe. They also discus the difficulties of Ratio Rule A and the pools at the XEUCF.

Ravi and Liam finally have a full episode of ultimate related content! They discuss the controversial foul call from Swedish Beach nationals, then talk about UKU Nationals and the French PQI tournaments. They also discuss the new EUF club structure and time-line and preview some international tournaments in Switzerland this weekend. Finally they go through the current team list at the XEUCF and see how good their picks look.0:00 Controversy at Sweden Beach Nationals14:00 WUCC/XEUCF qualifiers34:55 Basel Open preview & picks44:20 EUF club series format49:35 XEUCF team lists & scoring picks

Ravi and Liam predict which teams will be going to the XEUCF in Bruges later this year. They also discuss the sexual harassment case in Switzerland and look at the team list for EUIC 2022!

Sean Colfer from The Showgame comes on to talk about the new UKU club structure. Ravi is already injured, XEUCF is happening! The boys also look ahead to the EUF 2022 calendar.

Liam becomes a firefighter, Ravi starts playing frisbee again. The boys talk about Europe officially returning to play, They also walk through some of the weird schemes that national federations are using to qualify teams for WUCC next year with nationals cancelled in many countries.

Ravi and Liam talk all about the new prescribed gender pulling rule that will be used by WFDF and the EUF at upcoming events. France's Aline "Rasta" Mondiot and GB's Rachel Turton weigh in on their impressions of the new rule. The boys close the podcast out with some content they've been enjoying during this (hopefully) last period of the pandemic.

The (in)famous Italian, Davide Morri, joins the podcast to discuss the CUSB Academy coming up this July. https://cusbfrisbee.it/cusb-academy-english-version/Liam and Ravi talk to Davide about the first time they met him and how CUSB changed their spirit, Davide's experience picking up with PELT at Windmill and various other topics. To close the show Ravi and Liam talk about WUCC returning to Cincinnati and the saga of the European Super League.Elevate Ultimate's "The Art of Coaching Youth Ultimate": https://elevateultimate.com/coaching-resources/[1:30] CUSB Academy[12:40] Davide previews his new Ultiworld article[19:48] How Liam met Davide[24:30] How Ravi met Davide[29:30] Spirit in CUSB[33:20] Davide playing with PELT[41:30] Who Davide looked up to early on[53:15] WUCC returning to Cincinnati[1:02:20] Takes on the Super League

Liam and Ravi bring on Scottish players Cameron Agnew and Rhonda Gordon to talk about Scottish Ultimate. They give their takes on the new UKU Club system from a Scottish perspective and discuss the shift from mixed to single gender at the elite level in Scotland. Liam then asks about what a Scottish national team would look like if GB split into different nations. To close the show Ravi and Liam discuss Australian nationals.

Lorcan Murray comes back to the podcast for a St. Paddy's day special. Liam and Lorcan tell the history of St. Paddy's day and some PELT stories. Ravi puts the lads to the test with a trivia contest on Irish ultimate. Also, Miguel and Stephanie of the Flying Rabbits join the show to talk about their book on gender issues.[1:00] Intro[5:00] Flying Rabbits Gender Book[27:00] History of St. Patrick's Day[33:00] Why Lorcan left EuroZone[37:15] PELT stories[43:40] Trivia on Irish Ultimate