CUUP World's Team roster?

[teachertim1969]

Hey Folks.

I'm hoping someone can quickly copy and paste the roster for the CUUP team for World's here as I'm doing a write-up for our HZU Newsletter now.

Otherwise, who should I email?

I've tried looking for a China Ultimate national body website, but I only seem to be getting links for info from 2012...

I recall there was a China Ultimate website (kind of) active for this years nationals, but I can't seem to find that now.

Every other country is blasting info about their teams out as loudly as they can, but CUUP and our mysterious China Ultimate national body (apparently) haven't sent out diddley-squat...?

I would have expected to see posts about it here, at least.

As an aside, I think we need more effort (a completed and active website?), accountability (to all China based players?), and transparency (in selection processes for Nationals venues and National rep players?) in the running of China Ultimate.

Cheers!

TimF
Hangzhou Ultimate

[teachertim1969]

Hey Everyone,

I think I have dug up about as much info as I can...

There are less than 3 weeks until the 2014 WUCC (World Ultimate Club Championships) from 2 to 9 August in Lecco, Italy. I don't know about you, but I'm getting excited!!! (Even though I'm not going to be able to get there to watch and cheer the Chinese and Aussie teams after all...)

Unfortunately, it appears (AFAICS) that WFDF still haven't released the WUCC 2014 tournament schedule, or if the Captains have it, it still hasn't been made public at any rate... I've been reading that WFDF will release the game schedule rather than the WUCC Committee.

Nevertheless, there is good news for those who want to see WUCC games though, as Skyd Magazine has the rights to live stream about 45 games from WJUC (World Juniors 20-26 July also in Lecco, Italy) and WUCC. That's about 3 games a day. 

http://www.worlds2014.org/skyd-magazine-at-wucc/


CUUP (China United Ultimate Party) will represent the Chinese Mainland in the Mixed Division, and Hong Kong Junk will also be there. Another team we are fairly familiar with in the WUCC 2014 Mixed Division are 2012 Shanghai Open Champions, Shiok, from Singapore who are in hot form after winning the Singapore Nationals a couple of weeks ago. Last Stand, from South Korea, round out the Asian contingent. It will be good to see if the Asian teams (I'm not thinking of Japan here as they are already in the top level of the sport) can match it with the big teams from the top Ultimate countries.

The Mixed Division has about 46 teams and will be super competitive. Let's hope CUUP and Junk both play at their best and claim some big scalps! See the CUUP team roster below.

See all the teams in all WUCC Divisions here:  http://www.worlds2014.org/wucc/tournament/divisions/


The CUUP team for this WUCC has been organised by Ken Su of Beijing under the auspices of the Ultimate Association of China (WFDF affiliated). There's plenty of experience in the team, but there are are also some young bloods in there too.

Thanks especially to Ken Su, Alicia Lui, Seven Xu, Amy Smith and Sei Xue for their assistance in the formulation of this table.

CUUP (China United Ultimate Party) Team for WUCC 2014
World Ultimate Club Championships 2-9 August in Lecco, Italy
LADIES
#	English+PinYin Name	汉字	Club/Team	From or Based in: City State Country
1	Zuo Haijia	左海嘉	University of Victoria ex Dalian Mallards	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2	WANG Feiyi	王斐艺	ex Shanghai YK Pao School	Shanghai, China
3	GUO Yang	郭杨	Paris, France???	Beijing, China
4	Alicia Lui		Beijing Big Brother	Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
5	Amy Qiang	强蔷	ex Shanghai YK Pao School	Shanghai, China
6	Jenny Chan		ex Shanghai YK Pao School	Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China
7	Amy Smith		Shanghai HuWa	Atlanta, Georgia, USA
GUYS
#	English+PinYin Name	汉字	Club/Team	From or Based in: City State Country
1	LU Changwei	卢昌伟	University of Victoria ex Dalian Mallards	Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
2	"Sei" XUE Zhixing	薛志行	Ningbo Warriors/Graduates YikunSports	Ningbo, Zhejiang, China
3	WANG Ruoyang
4	Dax Haas		Shanghai HuWa	Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
5	Zach Finkelstein		Wuhan CUG Chairman Xiongmao	USA
6	Geoff Irving		Beijing Big Brother	Princeton, New Jersey, USA
7	"Tao" Anthony Tao		Beijing Big Brother	Kansas City, Kansas, USA
8	Ken Su		Beijing Bang Beijing Big Brother	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
9	JIA Xie			Phoenix, Arizona, USA
10	"Seven" XU Qing	许庆	Shanghai Wings	Shanghai, China

It's good to see some of the young kids from YK Pao School Ultimate program rising up under Miranda Knowles' tutelage and representing their country at this level. There seems to be a real momentum building in Chinese Ultimate now. It's not a torrent, but the numbers of teams, clubs and players is increasing faster than ever. More schools and (mostly Sports) universities are getting Ultimate programs going.

With the IOC provisionally recognising WFDF last year, and the National Olympic Committees in countries like the USA and Japan recently recognising the national level Ultimate bodies there, I wonder if China might also soon head in that direction...? Probably not while they focus on Table Tennis, Diving and Badminton...? In fact, with the way I see Soccer being run here, I hope they stay away from Ultimate for a while yet. The Hong Kong Olympic Committee has already done so though.

WUCC Website:  http://www.worlds2014.org/wucc
WUCC on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/pages/World-Ultimate-Club-Championships-2014/342300422567506

WFDF Website:  http://wfdf.org/
WFDF on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/skydmagazine

Skyd Magazine Website:  http://skydmagazine.com/
Skyd Magazine on Facebook:  https://www.facebook.com/skydmagazine

Disc in!!!

Tim Flanders

Hangzhou Ultimate
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