For those of you who might not already know PlayUltimate.us collects ultimate related content from around the web and publishes it in a Digg-like platform (you see a ultimate article in your local paper? post it there. blog about a tournament? post it there.)
But, for much of its existence there have been major lulls in posting activities. Usually centered around those months where ultimate itself lies dormant, but recently this hasn't been the case. There has been a fairly steady and continuous stream of ultimate related content.
Especially content created by the ultimate community has found some benchmarks of production regularity -
- The Huddle has proven to be a consistently published magazine with relevant topics
- Match Diesel and Spin Ultimate have been contributing commentary to the college scene
- UltiTraining has thrown out tips to the more competitive and fitness-minded ultimate player
- YouthUltimate has picked up the slack where we may have fallen behind on the youth scene.
- The Cultimate Opinion regularly checks in (multiple times a week) on club and random ultimate topics.
- UltiVillage posts clips of the day
- and the UPA finally found a way to bring the College Championships to the masses with narrated video highlights at the end of each day and streaming finals.
And these are just a few of the many sites. My point being there was a time not so long ago (read: the foundation of this site) where ultimate content was hard to come by. RSD was your best shot and what you found there was name calling, trolls, spam and hate spew. While RSD is still all of those things there are now viable and productive alternatives, and they are in my mind proving a more verdent incubator of the sport. There is more published ultimate knowledge available to young players than ever before.
Sure - the sport doesn't have the comprehensive coverage of the NFL. Certainly though, slowly but surely, we're getting there.
[edit] - an update by PJ at cultimate looks at the different types of articles in the ultimate blogosphere.
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