The World Flying Disc Federation (WFDF) will hold it’s premier event The World Ultimate & Guts Championships in Heilbronn Germany from the 5th - 12th of August 2000 Player Information Location Heilbronn, Baden-Württemburg, Germany Date 5. - 12. August 2000 Playing fields 21 Ultimate fields and 4 Guts fields Participants 70 teams with 1400 players and staff from 23 countries Participating countries Austria, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, International, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Netherlands, Taiwan, Russia, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, USA 6 Divisions Women, Open (men), Juniors (up to 19 years), Juniors women (up to 20 years), Masters (over 30 years), Mixed Fields Preliminary round Heilbronn - Böckingen, sport facilities at the "Viehweide” Union-Stadium: 10 000 spectator capacity Fields around Union-Stadium: 2 000 spectators each Heilbronn-Sontheim, at "Wertwiesenpark ”: 2 000 spectators each Finals Union-Stadium: Heilbronn: 10 000 spectator capacity Qualification for World Games 2001 The Heilbronn World Championships is the qualifying tournament for the World Games 2001 in Japan (world games for non-Olympic sports). The best six teams qualify directly for the World Games. The German Frisbeesport Association and the WM Organizational Committee presented their proposal to the WFDF annual congress at the 1998 World Ultimate Championships in Minneapolis, Minnesota in August. The proposal was accepted unanimously by the WFDF officials and the participating countries. The aim and objective of hosting this tournament is to provide a means of showing the game of Ultimate at its best with the specific goal of encouraging growth in Germany as a whole. This goal will be attained through organization of teacher workshops with a project called "I CAN FLY" in the Heilbronn region and throughout Germany. An additional goal is to encourage the participation of Ultimate teams from the former east block and other countries entering the Ultimate community throughout the world. Here some additional facts about the WUGC 2000: featuring 70 national teams with over 1200 participants from 23 countries who will be com peting in 6 divisions to be named world champion in the team sport of Ultimate-Frisbee. tournament fields and accommodations are located together directly on the Neckar River in Heilbronn Germany. All fields are within a 1 kilometer square area. A stadium is available in this area for top games each evening and for the finals. The Tournament Location is Heilbronn, Germany - the geographical center of Europe! France is 60 km to the west, Switzerland 150 km to the south, Austria 160 km southeast and the Czech Republic 250 km to the east! Tournament date: 5. - 12. August 2000 Stay tuned to this site for more information concerning this great event. If you are interested in more information contact the tournament director Mark Kendall. You want a Banner on your Page to Link to us? Add the WUC 2000 button to your website. Copy the button on your local disk and include the following link as reference to our page: http://www.wuc2000.org/ ...or put these lines to your HTML-Code: <a href="http://www.wuc2000.org/"> <img src="http://www.wuc2000.org/banners/wfdf_110.gif" border=0></a>