If frisbees are your business, business is good.
Everything's coming up frisbee! Earlier this year the USA Ultimate organization — amateur ultimate frisbee's governing body — signed a television deal with ESPN that will see 23 games aired via ESPN3 and on ESPNU. Meanwhile, two ultimate frisbee pro leagues have launched in the past two years (players make a modest $25 per game). And one of them, Major League Ultimate, actually sells its own iPad/iPhone video game — featuring real pro frisbee-ists — for $2.99.
A Boston-based game designer and avid Ultimate player named Axis Sivitz created the "Championship Frisbee" app; it was recently rebranded in partnership with the Major League Ultimate league. There are eight teams from the East and West coasts in the league, which play a 10-game season from April to July. The game features all officially rostered players and jersey numbers. Number 21 above, shown preparing to "pull" the disc to the opposing team (Ultimate's equivalent of a kick-off in football)? That's Joseph Anderson from the New York Rumble.
Players can design their own jerseys via color-customized shorts and shirts. You want blue board shorts? You got blue board shorts, friend!
The app includes training levels for honing running, cutting, throwing and bidding skills (bidding = layout dive). Throwing, as is often the case with the sport in real life, is the hardest aspect to master.
