The Usha Ultimate Delhi-ght Frisbee Tournament, a sports event of the flying disc has been kicked off at the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in New Delhi on Friday.
A total 16 teams from across India are participating in this three day tournament (16th to the 18th of November).
The teams include Storm Chasers (Mumbai), Stray Dogs in Sweaters, Sexy Cats in Tuxedos, Metro Delhi International School (all from Delhi), Dream Catchers (Ahmedabad), Learning to Fly, DOD Ultimate (Bangalore) Sher Singhs (Chandigarh), Four Play (Chennai) and Flying Spirits (Pune) will contest for the top honour of the Usha Ultimate Delhi-ght tournament.
Usha International is sponsoring this tournament.
To promote this game, Usha International has called Brodie Smith, international Ultimate Frisbee legend to India.
The tournament is based on a Swiss Draw format, which ensures that teams are ranked quickly according to their real strength and play close matches against opponents of similar strength. One of the unique aspects of Ultimate Frisbee is, both women and men share the same field, play together and make their contributions to the team.
Ultimate Frisbee is the fastest growing team sport in the world.
Internationally, it is well developed, having rules and regulations to present a 60-minute, highly energetic and impactful sporting event.
Co-Chairman, Usha International Siddharth Shriram said, "Usha organizes various sporting events such as Ladies Amateur Golf Events, Junior Golf Championships and Training Programmes, Mawana Marathon and now Ultimate Flying Disc Tournament."
"Usha International is committed to empowerment of Women & Youth in India," he added.
Usha has opened over 1700 'Silai Schools' in the heart of rural India for empowering women and making them self reliant. It has also established about 1000 'Sewing Schools' pan India.
Noor En Ahmed with the inputs of Rajesh Sharma
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