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CUSB Sponsorship Update: Teams Results 2018

Hello friends of Balsamiq!

It's Laura here, the Balsamiq ultimate frisbee player 😊.

It’s November and it’s time for the CUSB winter update!

It has been an incredible season for the club, a gold season. Thanks to the Balsamiq sponsorship, the teams went to Cincinnati for the World Championship, and to Poland for the Champions League.

CUSB Shout European Champions 2018!

For the first time ever, an Italian team wins the European Ultimate Championship Finals (a.k.a. Champions League), which was held in Wroclaw (Poland) on October 5th/7th.
The women squad of CUSB made history with a 15-13 win in the final against Iceni from London. I've been playing on the team for the last 10 years, and I have never seen my teammates exploding in such wild happiness.

The road to success passed through years of training, gym sessions, rules study, wins, losses, smiles, and tears. Years of team building and tournaments all over the world. That's what sport is about, it's about commitment and dreams. And respect for the opponent, what in Ultimate Frisbee is called Spirit of the Game.

Even in the European and World Championships, there are no referees. These tournaments represent the maximum of the effort in terms of competition, so they are the highest stage where not only players and teams fight the hardest, but they have to preserve and demonstrate sportsmanship and mutual respect. What makes us proud the most, is the fact that not only we won the Championship, but we did it keeping the Spirit high, and we got voted 10.57 by our opponents (the goal is to maintain an average higher than 10).

The women's victory was not the only great news about EUCF. For the first time, CUSB won two spots in the Men division during the Qualifications. A team composed mostly of under 20 players managed, not only to qualify for the Finals, but they reached the 10th position (out of 24 teams!).

The men's CUSB La Fotta team played the final as well, against Clapham from London, but sadly, they missed the gold medal just for a couple of points.

CUSB Shout with the Dean of the University of Bologna
CUSB Shout group picture with the Dean of the University of Bologna and Peldi
CUSB Shout with the Dean of the University of Bologna and... Peldi 🙂

As we anticipated in the last update, our route passed through Cincinnati in July, for the World Club Ultimate Championship. Thanks to the Balsamiq support, we had the chance to play the best clubs in the World, before coming back to Europe to claim the cup.

Unfortunately, Shout's result at Worlds was not the one we expected, as we missed the goal of the top 16 and we arrived at 21st. Anyway, it was a nice preparation tournament for the Champions League!

The guys, on the other side, did great in the US, reaching the 9th position, demonstrating that the Bologna Ultimate community is one of the best in the World.

See you this summer, with more news from our friends at CUSB!

Laura for the Balsamiq Team

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