WFDF Congress Agenda 2006
07 November 2006
The agenda and delegate materials for the WFDF Congress 2006 are now available. A number of reports have been added to the materials previously published.
WFDF hosts meeting for Asian and Oceanic region at WUCC
02 November 2006
WFDF will be hosting an Asia Region Caucus during the upcoming World Ultimate Club Championship in Perth to bring together organizers from the Asian region. The meeting is scheduled for Saturday the 11th of November, at 20:00 at a place to be announced shortly.
WFDF Executive Director sought
07 September 2006
WFDF is seeking a part-time Executive Director. A position description is attached.
Vancouver to host WUGC2008
31 January 2006
The World Flying Disc Federation announced today that Vancouver, Canada has been selected to host the WFDF World Ultimate and Guts Championships on August 2-9, 2008. More than one hundred teams from over 30 nations will gather to compete for the world title in at least six divisions of play..
Board election results
19 January 2006
Congratulations to these candidates, who have been elected and agreed to serve as WFDF Directors for the 2006-2007 term:
Treasurer - Robert "Nob" Rauch;
Individual Events Chair - Paul Francz;
At Large - Dan Engstrom, Dave Nesbitt, Rue Veitl, Todd Demetriades.
It was an excellent turnout with 100% of eligible members casting ballots; 90% of those on time and counted. And many, many thanks to outgoing board members Erik Hammer, Kim Godwin, and Tami Pellicane for years of WFDF service.
WFDF election opens
18 December 2005
The 2005 WFDF Board Election is now open. All member associations should have received an electronic ballot paper. If you need to obtain one, please contact Jonathan Potts on jonathan dot potts at wfdf dot org.
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Latest WFDF Communiques
27 June 2017 - Official Communication 
USA takes gold in Mixed and Men’s Divisions; Russian Women win first title
The WFDF 2017 World Championships of Beach Ultimate (WCBU), in association with BULA, concluded on Saturday, June 24 with the USA showing its continued dominance, taking gold in the Mixed gender and Men’s divisions. Russia overcame the USA in a stunning come-from-behind victory -- winning the final four points of the Women’s Division final -- to take the women’s title 11-10. The USA also swept all four divisions of Masters’ Division play. The USA had taken gold in all but the Mixed Division in the WFDF 2015 World Beach Ultimate Championships. The week-long event, which opened on Sunday, June 18 on the beautiful beaches of Royan, France featured nearly 1,800 players from 39 countries on 127 teams in 9 divisions. The 30-person broadcast team livestreamed more than 120 games across three showcase fields over the course of the week, which is the most games live broadcast for one event by WFDF.
13 June 2017 - Official Communication
With 12 teams already registered for the second annual World Team Disc Golf Championships, Tournament Director and WFDF Disc Golf Chair Charlie Mead has decided to extend the registration deadline to July 15th in order to provide more time for countries to organize and assemble a team. The tournament will run from Wednesday 23rd to Saturday 26th August, 2017 at Wivenhoe Park, University of Essex, Colchester, Great Britain on the full Championship course. The course will be open for practice from Sunday 20th to Tuesday 22nd August inclusive.
07 June 2017 - Official Communication
The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) is excited to announce livestreaming plans for the WFDF 2017 World Championships of Beach Ultimate (WCBU), in association with BULA, from 18-24 June in Royan, France. WFDF plans to livestream 120 games, including simultaneous coverage of three pitches. The showcase venue, held in the 4,000-seat arena and covered with five cameras, will be a free livestream for the world to watch, while the action from fields #2 and #3 will be hosted on Fanseat.com, and require a monthly subscription fee, with FanSeat offering a no-cost, one-month trial. Find out more about the coverage plans, including links, livestreams, and updates online at http://live.wcbu2017.org.
28 May 2017 - Official Communication
The World Flying Disc Federation (“WFDF”) is pleased to announce that its Congress has approved five new Member associations, increasing WFDF’s membership to 75 member associations. The new Members are from Afghanistan (Afghanistan Frisbee Federation, AFF), Lebanon (Lebanon Flying Disc Association, LFDA), Republic of Moldova (Moldovan Flying Disc Federation, MFDF), Romania (Romania Flying Disc Association, RFDA), and Thailand (Thailand Flying Disc Team, TFDT).
“The approval of these five new Member associations from Asia and Europe comes as a result of the thorough and persistent work conducted over several years led by our Executive Director Volker Bernardi together with the WFDF Sport for All and Development Commission,” commented WFDF President Robert “Nob” Rauch. “This figure constitutes a major milestone for WFDF as outlined in our previous strategic plan set out in 2012, as WFDF concludes a five year journey to finally reach 75 Member countries”.
24 May 2017 - Official Communication
The World Flying Disc Federation (“WFDF”) is pleased to announce that the International University Sport Federation (the Fédération Internationale du Sport Universitaire, or FISU) has agreed to provide WFDF with the seal of a FISU recognised sport. The recognition was acknowledged in a letter sent by FISU President Oleg Matytsin (RUS) dated 22 May 2017.
“WFDF is extremely honored and pleased to obtain FISU recognition,” stated WFDF President Robert “Nob” Rauch. “We appreciate the advice and encouragement provided by the respective FISU departments and we thank FISU President Oleg Matytsin, Secretary General Eric Saintrond, and WUC Director Paulo Ferrerira for their tremendous support. With the popularity and growth of Flying Disc sports at the university level around the world, and with the full support of our member national associations and several National University Sport Federations (NUSFs), we look forward to being able to formally contribute to the University sports movement.”
19 April 2017 - Official Communication
The World Flying Disc Federation (“WFDF”) is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors, upon the recommendation of its Beach Ultimate Committee, has approved of a new set of Rules of Beach Ultimate and the corresponding Rules Appendix 2017. The new rules came into effect on April 1, 2017 and will be used at the WFDF 2017 World Championships of Beach Ultimate (WCBU) being held in Royan, France, in association with BULA, from 18-24 June. There are some differences in this set of rules that will affect the game of Beach Ultimate, specifically the length of timeouts, determination of gender mix in the Mixed Division of play, the field size, and the use of yellow discs as the official game disc for TV broadcast games.
14 April 2017 - Official Communication
The World Flying Disc Federation (“WFDF”) is pleased to announce that it is revising the eligibility age for female players participating in the Mixed Masters division, lowering it from 33 years to 30 years. The change was made to conform to the eligibility age that has been in place for the Women’s Masters division.
“After lengthy discussion and a unanimous vote in favor, the WFDF Ultimate Committee had recommended that change, bringing the eligibility age for females participating in the Women’s Masters and Mixed Masters divisions to the same level, avoiding unnecessary confusion and inconsistency,” stated WFDF President Robert “Nob” Rauch.
06 April 2017 - Official Communication
The World Flying Disc Federation is pleased to announce that its Board of Directors has approved a new form of sanctioned competition, the international test match. An International Test Match is a bilateral game of Ultimate between teams representing two regular WFDF member associations. The eligibility requirements for international Ultimate Test matches can be found here.
05 April 2017 - Official Communication
The World Flying Disc Federation (“WFDF”) is pleased to announce that its Congress has accepted Armenia as new WFDF member association. With the acceptance of the Armenian National Frisbee Federation (ANFF), WFDF now has 72 member associations in 70 countries.
“We are pleased to welcome Armenia into the WFDF family,” stated WFDF President Robert “Nob” Rauch. “Their admission as national member number 70 marks a milestone in the program we started four years ago to work with loosely organized flying disc players in countries around the world and support their efforts to institutionalize their governance and pursue membership in WFDF. We are looking forward to approving five more new members in the first half of 2017, four of them within one month’s time, as each of these have been working with us closely for more than a year on the approval process and have recently submitted full and complete applications for membership.”
28 March 2017 - Press Release 
The World Flying Disc Federation (“WFDF”) is pleased to announce that the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) has confirmed that it will sanction the WFDF 2017 World Team Disc Golf Championships (WTDGC) at the XA tier level. In addition, team registration for the WTDGC has been extended to June 9th in the light of considerable interest from many countries that have asked for an extension to the registration process. WTDGC will be held August 23-26 in Colchester, England and it will be hosted by DiscZoo. Teams must be submitted by national disc sports federations who are World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) members, or by the national disc golf association for countries where disc golf is not part of a national disc sports body or a direct member of WFDF.
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