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2015 is coming to a close, but it's been a wild ride! We've had a lot of exciting news and a lot of fun events this year, and while we're thankful for all of that we're even more excited to see what 2016 brings. Check out our 2015 year in review! We started the year with our WFDF announcement - we're the official merchandisers for the World Flying Disc Federation for 2015 and 2016! This year our USA office out of Atlanta went to a whopping 130+ tournaments between the VC and Spin brands! Wow! In February one of the events was Trouble in Vegas where our staff were enchanted to meet this capybara, Romeo; basically a giant guinea pig. #onlyinvegas We also had the pleasure of merchandising the first-ever USAU Beach Nationals. Virginia Beach was a great time, maybe the most fun being all our VC Funzone beach games! In June we had a very exciting announcement: our merger with UK company Lookfly! We now officially have a VC Europe branch and some electric new plans for a Lookfly revamp. June also gave us a fun giveaway day with the Toronto Elites club. We gave away free sublimated samples of some of our favorite designs - earned through Spikeball games and joke-telling. Everyone loves free sub jerseys! U23 in London kicked off our summer European tour. We met a lot of amazing young players from all over the world and saw some really exciting competitive ultimate. EUC in Copenhagen brought more great European ultimate. Since Denmark is known for their bacon, we hosted a memorable night of fun with our Beer, Bacon, and SpikeBall tournament. EYUC was the last of our European summer tour; what a great note to end on! We saw some incredible youth players - the future of ultimate looks bright indeed! Back on our home turf, we wrapped up the Canadian season with CUC in Winnipeg. It was lovely to be among some of our favorite Canadian teams again. Our final destination tournament of the year was PAUC in Cancun, Mexico. Even though it was the rainy season and we had some new obstacles to overcome, these amazing positive teams made it all worthwhile! In this next year, we're looking forward to new product development and our continued contract with WFDF. Keep an eye out for new designs for bigger, better events, like WUGC 2016 back in London. Here's to an exciting new year!    

VC is very excited to support the upcoming 2015 VC Mixed Championships in Japan on December 19-20! Ultimate is huge in Japan, in part because of the efforts of Club Jr, who work tirelessly to organize tournaments for every division of player. The VC team has had the chance to meet with the fine folks from Club Jr - including the always smiling Satoru Ishii - for many international events. We were thrilled when the opportunity arose to partner and create the VC Mixed Championships! There will be 17 amazing teams at the VC Mixed Championships.One of the best parts about merchandising tournaments like this is giving back to some amazing communities and exceptional ultimate players. USA, World, and PAUC champions (and one of our favorite teams) Drag'n Thrust receiving both champion shorts and Spirit of the Game hats at the 2015 Pan American Ultimate Championships.     For the inaugural VC Mix Championships, Club Jr and VC have something special in mind!        We are so excited for this event that our founding director, Adriana Withers, and the tournament organizer, Akihiko Yoshida, each wanted to share a greeting with all the players about to participate in this event: Dear 2015 VC Ultimate Mix Championship players,  VC Ultimate is so proud to be working with Club Jr to bring you this amazing new event. Having 17 teams in our inaugural year shows the strength of your Ultimate community and we are excited to be associated with each and every competitor. I have personally been lucky enough to meet many players from Japan at different tournaments around the world and have enjoyed the spirit, energy and impressive skill that you bring to our sport. Japan is such a beautiful country that it is an honor to be able to draw inspiration from Japanese culture and nature for VC designs. Your friends at VC are all wishing you the best of luck for this event and I hope you enjoy playing in the 2015 VC Ultimate Mix Championships as much as I have enjoyed working on it!  Warm regards,Adriana  Adriana WithersFounding DirectorVC Ultimate Inc. ------------------------------------- We're very excited to host first ever mixed tournament for college/high school players. We're thankful to have about 300 players in this inaugural event.We expect to have 500 players within 5 years and 1,000 players in 10 years.  We appreciate generous support of VC Ultimate.We would like to invite Ms. Adriana to the event in the future.  Thank you very much.Truly Yours, Akihiko YoshidaCLUB Jr. Inc. Founder/Owner --------------------------- Update: Year one was a smashing success! Thanks to all the organizers, volunteers, and players who made our first year so exciting! 

Fun fact: Comedy of Errors is Shakespeare's shortest and most farcical plays. The comedy centers around slapstick, puns, and mistaken identity. In short, it was BEGGING to be the theme for an ultimate tournament and Montreal's AUM stepped up! With such a creative theme (opening up lots of costume potential by encouraging "disguises") it would be hard not to have a good time at this tournament. Unfortunately there was a little difficulty with the fields and the tournament had to be split into two locations, but the tournament staff were still all smiles. At the VC tent we had a great time enjoying the sunshine! Our Spikeball sets got lots of attention Saturday and with some free VC hats to giveaway we had a lot of fun playing games and trading hats for puns! This was also a special weekend for our VC staff since we had a visitor: Wags from Chicago came up to help out. GStar and Wags had a great time teaching Spikeball and running games, but they certainly spent their breaks a little differently -  GStar getting in a core workout with some friends:   Wags getting treated to the best of Canadian hospitality (G says, "Get back to work!"): While visiting, Wags got to have her first Timbits, Montreal poutine, and see a Royal vs. Outlaws game....all-in-all a great weekend! Thanks AUM for hosting an awesome tournament; we look forward to the Jazz tournament coming up soon! More information on AUM can be found on their Facebook. 

Between the feats of athleticism, hard competition, awesome community, and of course stylish gear, it's hard to imagine ultimate tournaments becoming any more fun than they already are. Our staff of scientists in the research and development department have been working round the clock to increase the maximum fun potential and we are proud to present our exciting results: The VC Funzone! The VC Funzone is our special tournament signature. We use state-of-the-art technology to increase fun intake including but not limited to: bubbles, balloons, temporary tattoos, and Spikeball. The Funzone can be tailored in a variety of ways to fit different events, with more competitive types of fun like our Speedzone where you can test your fastest throwing speed, Spikeball games for some leisurely competition, and quick Funzone mini-games to win prizes... like free Spikeball sets!If you’re a fan of Pundamonium pun competitions, competing for fastest throw, relay races, plus all the free hats and swag and other prizes that go along with those things, then the VC Funzone is the place for you! Coming soon to a European tournament near you...