Membership Survey Results
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Help Shape the Future of Canadian Ultimate
The Canadian Ultimate Players Association thanks you for your feedback! Please take a few minutes to read through your answers in our first annual CUPA Member Survey. We appreciated your honest and candid comments regarding the Canadian Ultimate scene. Once again, thank you for your time!

250 (18%) Respondents (1384 surveys sent out)

4. What changes would you make to the Association?

• 1.Promotion
• 1.1 Youth and growth
  • there should be provincial school championships in every province
  • getting ultimate onto the varsity schedule at the public, high school, and post-secondary levels
  • I would focus on growth and promotion
  • Association take a much more active role in the development of the sport at a national level.
  • more active promoting all levels of the sport from elite to grass roots.
  • focus on the growth of ultimate in younger players.
  • CUPA needs to get involved more with the regional associations.
• 1.2 Visibility in Canada
  • more promotion of the sport
  • Cupa hold more tournaments with its name
  • Visibility in ultimate community needs to improve.
  • Become recognized by Sport Canada
  • I feel like CUPA is still a small voice all across Canada.
• 2. Fee
  • 2.1 What do you do with it
    • Prove to everyone that their fees are going to good use instead of to favorite leagues (TO, VA, Ott).
    • Provide some sort of explanation about how CUPA membership fees are spent.
    • Publicize the budget for Nationals to allow participants to see where their money goes.
    • reason to become a member outside of playing a nationals series.
    • long-term plans for financial resource
    • publish an annual report
  • 2.2 High fee
    • Players seem to get very little for their membership.
    • fees are too high
• 3. Organization
  • 3.1 Tournament
    • improve its governing presence
    • coordination between regional/city groups and CUPA
    • Interact with the UPA and the provincial/civic
    • more organized for CUC association monitors and manages team and club rosters during regional, national and internationl competitions
    • ensure that those players registered for nationals/regionals are actually those who are playing
    • roster limit for tournaments
    • little more stringent roster rules
    • More rigid tournament structure
  • 3.2 Internal
    • more communication with its members on the 'state of the sport
    • clear and consistent policies that are enforced. If you're not going to enforce your policies (i.e. junior consent forms at Nationals), don't waste my time.
    • attempt at building a competitive 5 or 6 tournaments a year that would act as the tournaments that teams aim to win in a season.
    • the team that wins regionals)from each division go to national policy.
    • stronger Regional organization
    • Make CUPA ultimate and player development oriented
    • stricter governance structure to make CUPA meaningful throughout Canada
    • CUPA needs to get organized, establish a date EARLY in the season so teams can factor it into their schedule
    • policy on merchandising and sponsorship
• 4. Other
  • Having a French version of the web site
  • French communication
  • get government money
    

7. What functional changes would you make to the web site?

• General information
  • coverage of Ultimate tourneys
  • statistics of teams and rankings
  • publish the year goals for CUPA
  • Focus on media and press release
  • Focus on economic benefits
  • Grow the sport and use the web page as one of the tools to do so
  • have more information on ultimate itself such as rules, spirt etc
  • better reporting of results from regional tourneys, CUC, and CUUC
  • More news
  • tips and playing tips. Also it could be done for varying levels
  • I don't find the information relevant to most players.
• Forum
  • Better forum
  • have a forum that people actually use.
  • more handy forums
• Webmaster
  • Make it easier to look it at. It is cold and rigid right now.
  • Make it easier to navigate
  • Clear out old links
  • more updated information.
  • more updates
  • Web site is confusing.
  • It should be updated more regularly - at least every month
• Other
  • picture gallery
  • Some more video/photo
  • french.