Marques Brownlee — or MKBHD — just crossed the 10 million subscriber threshold on YouTube with his technology review focused channel.

Brownlee, who competed with New York PoNY and the AUDL’s New York Empire in 2019, has long been one of the biggest tech YouTubers¹. When we profiled him in 2013, he had 460,000 subscribers. (more…)

1. he’s currently 7th in subscribers among tech YouTube channels ↩

Angela Lin and Steve Sullivan have been announced as the newest members of the USA Ultimate board of directors. The governing body released preliminary results of the election this evening after voting ended this afternoon.

Lin — who is a member of the USAU Hall of Fame and has been heavily involved in the founding of the PUL — defeated Ian Toner to claim the elite-athlete position vacated by Heather Ann Brauer. Sullivan came out ahead of four others running for the at-large seat, with Kyle Weisbrod his closest competition. He will replace the outgoing DeAnna Ball.

Both new board members will serve three-year terms starting January 1, 2020.

Full disclosure: Sullivan is Ultiworld’s Executive Editor.

Disclosure: Board candidate Steve Sullivan has served as Ultiworld’s executive editor since July 2015. Kyle Weisbrod has written numerous articles published by Ultiworld.

USA Ultimate has announced that seven candidates are running for two open board positions on the 2020-2022 Board of Directors.

Five candidates — Terrell Hoagland, Vikram Makhija, Ryan Natzke, Steve Sullivan, and Kyle Weisbrod — are running for the at-large seat. Angela Lin and Ian Toner are running for the elite athlete seat. (more…)

The European Ultimate Federation has announced some details about the EUCF next year. The EUCF will move back to Bruges  for the first time since 2011 on the same field site as Tom’s Tourney. The tournament will take place from October 2nd to 4th next fall. The women’s division will grow from 12 to 16 teams. An op-ed on this topic was published by Ultiworld prior to this year’s EUCF. Mixed will stay at 12 teams and men’s will stay at 24 teams.

The day before the start of the 2019 Club Championships, Arby’s, the sandwich fast food chain, put up ultimate-inspired posts on their Instagram and Facebook pages.

The posts feature a Hucket Bucket, an Ultrastar, and a bunch of custom stickers with the caption, “Did we pack cleats & discs OR 20 Beef ‘n Cheddars? You’ll never know. #USAUNats” (more…)

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Here are the 26 teams that will compete at the 2019 Classic City Classic in Athens, Georgia, on November 16-17! The pools are listed below along with the Ultiworld filming (NOT streaming) schedule.

Stay tuned for full schedules and a tournament preview! (more…)