SOUTHWEST CLUB REGIONALS 2024
SATURDAY & SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 & 22
ABOUT SW CLUB REGIONALS
California Ultimate is proud to host this year’s USA Ultimate SW Club Regionals at Galway Downs in Temecula, CA. SW Regionals will feature over 32 teams battling in the Women’s, Men’s and Mixed divisions. That’s over 100 action packed games of 7v7 ultimate with bids to Nationals on the line.
VENUE & PARKING
ADDRESS
Galway Downs
38801 Los Corralitos Rd, Temecula, CA 92592
PARKING
Please consider carpooling as the venue charges around $12-15/day/car for parking. We’ll send out more detailed parking instruction in days leading up to Regionals.
AMENITIES
- Portable restrooms
- Food vendors
- Lined grass fields
- Water stations
- 2 sun canopies per field
TOURNEY EXPECTATIONS
SITE RULES
- [UPDATED 10/09/24] We expect Saturday to start around 8:30 or 9:00 AM depending on competition format needs. We hope to finish the tournament by 3:30 PM on Sunday. This is all subject to change pending competition formats, updated weather and AQI forecasts, etc.
- All fields will have player lines and equipment lines; please respect your opponents by respecting them.
- There will be two sun canopies by each field; please don’t move them when your team moves. If you’d like to rent an additional sun canopy then you can move that one.
- We have secured at least 6 observers to work the event. There may be an observer assigned to your game; there might not be. Regardless, always play with the rules and spirit of the game front and center.
- We will have 3 athletic trainers on site starting 90 minutes before games begin each day
- It will may be hot.
- We will provide as many sun canopies as we can plus ample water stations throughout the facility.
- 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. Teams can pre-order lunches by 10/13 to be picked up at HQ each day after 11:30 AM; this must be done through the payment portal linked below. There may be food vendors present; we’ll confirm this by 10/13.
- We expect schedules to be out by September 18th pending any late changes due to local conditions.
- Dogs and other pets are not allowed on the fields.
- There is no overnight parking allowed on site unless renting a cabin or pony house on site.
- Do not park on the streets; there’s no parking on Los Caballos, Los Corralitos or Pauba Road. Violators will be ticketed and/or towed. We want to be good neighbors and it’s critical we keep the roads surrounding Galway Downs clear of vehicles.
- No outside alcohol and no alcohol on the fields. Depending on the event, Galway Downs may have areas reserved for enjoying adult beverages (sufficiently away from the fields).
GETTING TO & LEAVING GALWAY DOWNS
- COMING TO GALWAY DOWNS: Use your smart phone/GPS to get to Temecula, but please ignore it once you turn on Los Caballos or Pauba Road and follow the signs/directions because your GPS is going to likely send you to the main entrance and not to the correct entrance for your field/parking.
- LEAVING GALWAY DOWNS: Leaving Galway Downs by Highway 79 can challenging due to the traffic coming back from the desert on weekends. We strongly recommend you exit via PAUBA ROAD to go back to Highway 15. This will save you 15-20 minutes in traffic and lights.
TEMECULA TRAVEL & ACCOMMODATIONS
HOTELS
Our third party provider EventConnect has secured a couple of reasonable rates in the greater Temecula area; they will continue to add hotels as they lock in rates.
FLIGHTS
Getting here is a bit of a trek so please explore all of your international airport options and factor in drive time:
- ONT and SAN – about 60-70 minutes
- SNA – 70-90 minutes
- LGB – 80-100 minutes
- LAX – 100-120 minutes
2024-2025 RULES & JERSEY REQUIREMENTS
- Please have all players be well versed in the 2024-2025 rules!
- It’s the post season, so all standard USAU uniform requirements will be enforced, they can be found in the Club Guidelines.
FEES
TEAM FEE: $600 (nonrefundable) – Due Wednesday September 11th
PRE-ORDERING TEAM LUNCHES: Order through the payment portal by Monday September 16th at 12:00 PM PT.
PLAYER FEES: $35/player – Due Wednesday September 18th ***Please have your Team Admin pay for all of your team’s player fees at one time. Adding additional player fees is fine if more rostered players can make the event, but please avoid having your players pay individually as it’s hard to track.***
EQUIPMENT RENTAL: Order through the payment portal by Wednesday September 18th
More Details About Add-On Purchases & Rentals:
- Teams can pre-purchase Panera bagged lunches (half sandwich, chips, cookie) on Saturday, and/or Chipotle burritos on Sunday.
- Click here to open, then copy, and use a convenient template to collect orders from teammates.
- Pay through the payment portal by September 16th at 12:00 PM PT.
- Team lunch orders will be available for pickup each day after 11:45AM at HQ.
- Teams can rent extra sun canopies (10’x10’) and/or coolers from California Ultimate
- Pay through our payment portal by Wednesday September 18th
- Pick up and drop off your gear at HQ.
- EXPECTED COST: We believe this event will cost around $65-75 per participant (although it will be divided into separate Team and Player Fees as we explain below); this depends on total number of teams and how many observers we are able to lock in.
- 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.
- REFUND POLICY: If for some reason you have a player that becomes unable to attend entirely (injury, etc) after paying, you must inform us by September 18th. After the 13th we will not be able to offer team or lunch refunds; after the 18th we won’t be able to offer player or rental refunds.
PAYMENT & ORDER CONFIRMATION
We’ll update this every morning through Sept 18th.
WHAT YOU 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 this year Project Disc Go Disco has 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; and
- 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 in the hopes local and national media pick up Ultimate, we also weave together our partnerships and hire local staff in untapped areas to plant the seeds of new local orgs.
