2023 SFI West
Saturday & Sunday, July 15-16
About Select Flight Invite West:
California Ultimate is proud to host this year’s USA Ultimate Select Flight Invite West (SFI West for short) at the San Bernardino Soccer Complex in San Bernardino, CA. SFI West is is part of the national Club Ultimate regular season structure. This year it will feature over 40 teams battling in the Women’s, Men’s and Mixed divisions trying to win the tourney and move up the national ranking to earn additional berths to Club Nationals in October.
FULL SCHEDULES & RESULTS
VENUE & PARKING
ADDRESS
San Bernardino Soccer Complex
2500 Pacific St, San Bernardino, CA 92346
PARKING
Please consider carpooling as the venue charges $10/day/car for parking; see below to pre-purchase a parking pass to get into the venue quicker.
AMENITIES
- Permanent restrooms
- Lined grass fields
- Observers
- Water stations
HOW TO GET HERE
- Nearest airports: ONT (24 min), BUR (60 min), SNA (60 min), LGB (70 min), LAX (80 min)
- Please take the 210 to Arden Ave; go south and turn left onto Pacific St; make a left into the facility–local authorities do NOT allow right hand turns into the facility
SPECIAL HOTEL ROOM RATES
Through our partners at EventConnect we’ve put together some special hotel deals. Please book ASAP as our event room blocks get released back to the hotels on Friday, July 7th at which point rates will likely go up.
SITE RULES
- Dogs and other pets are not allowed on the fields.
- There is no overnight parking allowed on site.
- No outside alcohol and no alcohol on the fields.
2022-2023 RULES & JERSEY REQUIREMENTS
- If you haven’t played in a competitive event in awhile, please reacquaint yourself & your team with the 2022/2023 rules!
- USAU’s summary of the biggest rules changes
- Mixed is playing with the WFDF gender-ratio rule. The majority gender each point is also required to pull.
- All USAU regular club season uniform requirements will be enforced.
TOURNEY EXPECTATIONS
- Start times may vary and change as the tournament formats won’t be finalized until July 12th. We are working with USAU to start Round 1 games at 9:00AM Saturday, and 8:00AM on Sunday so folks can get back on the road to home and make flights. The tournament should finish by 3:30PM on Sunday.
- All fields will have player lines; please respect your opponents by respecting them.
- There may be an observer assigned to your game; there might not be. Always play with the Spirit Of The Game front and center.
- We will have athletic trainers on site starting 90 minutes before games begin each day.
- Like a lot of the country, SoCal has been experiencing a heat wave. As such, it will likely be hot.
- Please hydrate in the days leading up to the event in addition to day-of.
- We have a Wet-Bulb Thermometer to monitor heat stress. We will be using USA Ultimate’s recommended guidelines – as needed – for altering play (mandatory heat timeouts, extra time between points, reduced round times, etc). Please click HERE to see the guidelines.
- CUA won’t be providing any complimentary food on site, but we do offer pre-purchased Panera lunches that can be picked up at Tourney HQ each day (see details below).
FEES, LUNCHES, & RENTALS
EVENT FEES
***We are undergoing some website renovations to make the checkout process more intuitive moving forward. In the meantime PLEASE BE SURE to include your Division; Team Name; Team Admin Name, Phone, & Email.***
- WOMEN’S TEAM FEE: $500 due by July 9th
- MEN’S & MIXED TEAM FEE: $800 due by July 9th
***The following Player Fees should be paid for an entire roster in ONE (1) payment by a team admin/treasurer; please do not have players pay individually via this platform.***
- WOMEN’S PLAYER FEE: $25 per player, due by July 12th
- MEN’S & MIXED PLAYER FEE: $38 due by July 9th
***For the following Add-Ons, please gather all orders from teammates and then submit ONE (1) payment by adding the appropriate quantities to your cart; please do not have teammates pay individually via this platform.***
PARKING PASSES – PURCHASE BY JULY 12TH
- $20 per car (instead of paying $10/car/day in person) – By displaying your pre-paid parking pass in your window as you enter the venue you’ll be able to enter via the “fast lane” and bypass folks paying in person.
RENTALS – PURCHASE BY JULY 9TH – pick up & drop off at HQ
- 10’x10′ Sun Canopies: $50 for the weekend
- Coolers: $20 for the weekend
- Camping chairs: $10 for the weekend
PRE-PURCHASED LUNCHES – PURCHASE BY JULY 10TH
- $11 each – We are partnering with Panera to offer bagged lunches delivered to the fields. Lunches will include a half-sandwich, bag of chips, and cookie; and will be available for pickup at HQ after Round 2 each day.
- We’ve created this Google Spreadsheet Template for you to make a copy of (under “File”) to collect lunch orders from teammates. Once collected, please pay for all lunches at one time
- FEE STRUCTURE: CUA has adopted a pricing structure that includes a team fee and an additional player fee to ensure our event costs get covered while providing a more equitable price to smaller (and frequently newer) teams. CUA has also embraced USAU’s suggestion to subsidize the Women’s Division to encourage growth and revitalization post pandemic.
- REFUNDS: If for some reason you have a player that becomes unable to attend entirely (injury, etc) after paying, we ask that you inform us by Wednesday, July 12th. After the 12th we will not be able to offer any player fee refunds. After the 9th we cannot issue any team fee refunds.
WHAT YOU ARE SUPPORTING BY PLAYING IN A CALIFORNIA ULTIMATE EVENT
California Ultimate works year round to promote the sport of Ultimate and your attendance helps support our programs. What do we do? Glad you asked!
- Create innovative programming: In 2020 we created and ran Uplift Ultimate virtual youth camp during the COVID-19 isolation phase in partnership with PGH Ultimate, in 2021 Project Disc Go delivered 1,000 discs to Inglewood and Fresno families and continues to create engaging skills videos on TikTok accessed by the QR code on the disc, and last year Project Disc Go Disco transformed the average Ultimate warmup into a fun and creative dance session which we plan to teach kids across CA and social media to get them moving and smiling with a disc in hand.
- Develop partnerships to expand youth play: This spring when Inglewood Unified School District had a dearth of Middle School PE teachers we took over all classes at 4 schools for 7 weeks, this summer with LA County Parks we are running a free 8-week Ultimate and disc golf class at Magic Johnson Park in Willowbrook as part of Parks After Dark, and we’ve now trained and certified 15 new coaches (and 20 LA Parks staff!) to introduce kids to Ultimate at over 37 LA City Parks this summer and fall through day camps, Summer Night Lights clinics and leagues, as well as evening classes.
- Run events to support our youth, college, & club members: From HS States, to Conferences & Sectionals, to Team USA tryouts, we strive to provide fun and exciting opportunities that are hosted in CA.
- Support local orgs: From finding cost-effective shareable services to talking through event calendars and ways to incentivize more participation up and down the state, we strive to facilitate discussion and productivity.
- Build awareness: We strategically bid on and run National and World Championships to introduce local communities as well as local and national media coverage to Ultimate, we also weave together our partnerships and hire local staff in untapped areas to plant the seeds of new local orgs. Just this year we ran USAU Beach Nationals (May); and will be hosting the WFDF 2023 World Beach Ultimate Championships from November 1-5 in Huntington Beach, and WFDF 2024 World Masters Ultimate Championships in early November in Irvine.
