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2024 U.S. Open Club Championships - Youth Divisions (YCC) - Rules

2024-2025 Official Rules of Ultimate will be in effect.

All games to 15.
Halftime is reached when the first team scores 8 points.
Halftime cap is halfway to soft cap (45 minutes after the beginning of the game).
- If neither team has reached seven or more points, one point is added to the highest score after the completion of the point.
- Halftime will be taken once a team reaches the new halftime score.
Halftime duration is seven minutes.
- Halftime length does not include the time between pulls.
Soft time cap is at 1 hr 30 min (90 min).
- Complete the point that is in progress when the cap goes off, then add one point to the higher score.
- Game ends when the first team reaches the new game total or when the first team reaches 15, whichever comes first.
Hard time cap goes on at the end of the round time listed in the schedule (1 hr 45 min).
- Finish the point in progress, and the game is over, unless tied. If tied, play one more point.
- Hard caps will not be used for the YCC finals (1st place gold medal games).
Each team has two timeouts per half.
Caps do not affect timeouts.
Mixed Division Personnel Ratio Rules:
- As noted in the 2024 Youth Guidelines - Competition Guidelines - On-Field Personnel Ratio for Mixed Division section, YCC uses WFDF’s Rule A, alternating which gender has 4 on the field every two points, after the first point.
- Additionally, YCC uses the "majority pull" rule, with a player from the gender majority for that point required to pull.
- For all Mixed games:

1. Personnel Ratio Violation: Violations of the prescribed personnel ratio and how they are handled are described in 2024-2025 Official Rules of Ultimate (9.B.3.a).

2. Majority Pull Violation: Violations of the majority pull rule will be handled the same as an offsides violation (9.B.4.d), but instead of calling "offsides," the offense should call "majority pull violation." Like with offsides violations, after the first majority pull violation, any subsequent majority pull violations should be handled as described in 9.B.4.d.2. Majority pull rule violations accumulate separately from offsides/false start violations. In games with observers, either the observer or a player on the field may call the violation.