2024 USA Ultimate Club Championships - Rules

Competition 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 for all games except final placement games, semifinals. and finals - 52:30 for final placement games, semifinals. and finals). 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 is seven minutes. 

  • Halftime length does not include the time between pulls. 

• Soft time cap is at 90 minutes for all games except the final placement games, semifinals. and finals. Add one point to the higher score after the point during which the cap goes off is completed. Game ends when the first team reaches the new game total or when the first team reaches 15, whichever comes first. 

  • Soft cap for final placement games, semifinals, and finals will be at 105 minutes. 

• Hard time cap goes on at the end of the round time listed in the schedule (105 minutes). 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 final placement games, semifinals, and finals. 

• Each team has two timeouts per half. 

• Caps do not affect timeouts. 

• Mixed Division Gender Ratio Rules:

  Determining the ratio: All Mixed games will use the "prescribed ratio" rule (also known as Rule

  A in the official WFDF Rules of Ultimate 2022-2024 – APPENDIX v1.0:

  Ratio Rule A ("prescribed ratio" rule): At the start of the game, after the first disc flip, an additional disc flip happens with the winner selecting the gender ratio for the first point. For the second and third points the ratio must be the reverse of the first point. For the fourth and fifth points the ratio must be the same as the first point. This pattern of alternating the ratio every two points repeats until the end of the game (half time has no impact on the pattern).

  All Mixed games will use the "majority pull" rule": Each point, a player representing the gender match-up with four players on the field must pull for that point. That is, if there are four women-matching players a woman-matching player must pull.

  For all Mixed games, if a team cannot match the prescribed on-field personnel ratio then the team must play with fewer than seven players, but no less than 5, matching the personnel ratio with as many players as possible.

  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/false start violation (9.B.4.d), but instead of calling "offsides," a player 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.

  Substitutions

  Player substitutions can be completed only: after a goal and before the substituting team has signaled readiness; or to replace injured players, replace players with illegal equipment, or to resolve an incorrect personnel violation. In this case, the opposing team may substitute a like number of, or fewer, players. In the Mixed Division the substituting players must be of the same gender match as the player they are replacing.