WFDF has sanctioned Big D in the Desert VI as the 2004 World Distance Championships. This year the event will be held from the 25th to 27th September at the California/Nevada state line in Primm Nevada on Ivanpah Dry Lake.

WFDF has announced the qualifying countries for the 2005 World Games in Duisburg, Germany. The qualifying countries are Canada (44 points), USA (42), Australia (34), Finland (32), Japan (31) and Germany (host). Qualifying was based on final placings of teams at the recently-completed World Ultimate Championships 2004 in Turku, Finland. Each country was assigned points based on their best three finishing teams at WUC2004. See the attached file for the full points count.

The WFDF World DDC Championships 2004 will be held in conjunction with the 29th Arizona State Flying Disc Overall Championship in late October 2004. See the tournament website for more details.

The International World Games Association (IWGA) has selected Kaohsiung City – Chinese Taipei’s second largest metropolis behind the capital – to host The World Games 2009. Mayor Frank Hsieh and IWGA President Ron Froehlich signed the contract to have the eighth edition of the elite multi-sport event held between July 16 and 26, 2009, at existing venues in Kaohsiung City, Kaohsiung County and adjacent Pingtung County.

WFDF has accepted the record of 61 hours and 26 minutes set by a group of Alaskan ultimate players earier this month.

WFDF Ultimate Committee and the WFDF Ultimate Rules Working Group do not foresee any changes to the current Rules of Ultimate for the 2004 season. This means that the current rules (last revision 1/28/2002) will be used for play at the WUGC 2004 in Turku, Finland.

The most complete census of global disc play has just been completed. See the listing of 2002 activity within each member country and world totals.

2003 WFDF World Overall Championships (WOC) and WFDF Pan Am Ultimate Regional slated as part of World Disc Games were held in Santa Cruz, CA July 6-13, 2003. See an image of the overall champs here.

Christian Sandstrom of Sweden launches 250 meters World Record Distance at Big D in the Desert IV.

The Freestyle Players Association has just anounced its new web site – www.freestyledisc.org This totally updated site offers jamming tips & great surfing for both rookie and crusty freestyler. The site includes over 150 pages of new content and over 200 new or seldom-seen photos from the 70s to now.