Tournament Name	Date	Location
US Beach Nationals	May 9-10	Virginia Beach, VA
Canadian Beach Nationals	June 6-7	Shediac, NB
Parlee Beach Tournament	July 18-19	Shediac, NB
Storm the Beach	August 29	Cobourg, ON
Discs & Dunes	1 day	Cobourg, ON
Probably and most definitely more this year 🙂

It feels like Toronto is uniquely positioned to be a North American pioneer city in full-time Beach Ultimate. With a vibrant weekend beach pick up community, and entering its third year of weekly beach Ultimate league complete with team draft, field lines, and BBQs, the city has an established and passionate player base for Beach Ultimate.

I am at a prime inflection point in my life to contribute to shaping North American Beach Ultimate.

For years, I dreamt of full-time beach Ultimate. There is a quality to the game that feels extra special. Perhaps slightly masochistic, as most endurance sports feel like, running along sand, as surface that makes sport harder than the already physical demands of chasing youth and strategic body coordinations. Yet the allure of beach front and sunny days and the hardest problems being chasing plastic feels blissful. More so than grass ultimate?

I wonder if years of bilateral knee tendonitis has me craving the pillowy caress of sand and extra thoughtful of my body’s longevity.

With my competitive grass desires largely behind me and the oft taken for granted physical and financial means, I have the privilege to design a full-time season of Beach Ultimate.

The Beach Ultimate scene is more niche than its already niche parent.

I often hear strong disinterest from passionate grass Ultimate players, citing the difficulty of playing on sand or the style of game.

Perhaps Beach Ultimate’s tiny yet passionate corner of the world intrigues me.

Red Island Beach Ultimate Tournament in PEI, a hallmark of Canadian east coast Ultimate, reflects invested community values and playfulness that feels faint in my current Ultimate environment and nostalgic of my high school and University career that quickly caught my heart strings to pull me into my first competitive sport.

In the coming years, I strive to chew on what makes Beach Ultimate alluring and the little things that cultivate an authentic and rooted sense of belonging in this community.

I’ve ben brewing on a North American Beach Ultimate Circuit and as we’re entering year two of this dream, I am feeling the stoke.

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Canadian Beach Ultimate Tournaments

Competition level	Tournament Name	Date	Location
Recreational, Intermediate	Naufrage	May	Lac Simon, QC
Intermediate, Competitive	Canadian Beach Ultimate Championships	June
Recreational, Intermediate	Storm the Beach	1 day, July	Cobourg, ON
Recreational, Intermediate	Salmon Cove	July	St. Johns, NL
Recreational, Intermediate	Brittania Beach	July	Ottawa, ON
Intermediate, Competitive	Discs & Dunes	July	Cobourg, ON
Intermediate	Parlee Beach Tournament	July 18-19	Shediac, NB
Intermediate	Red Island Beach Ultimate Tournament (RIBUT)	July	PEI
Recreational, Intermediate	Gaspe	August	QC

American Beach Ultimate Tournaments

Competition level	Tournament Name	Date	Location
Intermediate, Competitive	Sandblast	July	Chicago, IL
Intermediate, Competitive	Lei Out	January	Los Angeles, CA
Intermediate, Competitive	LA Throwback	January	Los Angeles, CA
Intermediate		February	Fort Lauderdale, FL
Intermediate	Clambake		Maine
Intermediate, Competitive	Wildwood		Wildwood, NJ