It's a bit like basketball, but there's no dribbling. It's a bit like touch football, but there's no touching.

And it's a bit like soccer - there's lots of running, but no kicking.

Six teams from across Ontario and Quebec came to Collingwood on the weekend to play in a local Ultimate Frisbee Tournament hosted by the Georgian Bay Ultimate Frisbee Club.

Frisbeepalooza was held at Fisher Field on Saturday and Sunday with teams from Waterloo, Guelph, Peterborough and Montreal joining two teams from Collingwood at the two-day event.

It's not so much the spirit of competition that attracts Ultimate Frisbee players, but the fun atmosphere and good sportsmanship that pervades the game, explained organizer Joel Zavitz.

"Tournaments are really fun," said Zavitz on the sidelines during a game against Montreal Saturday morning. "The best thing about Ultimate is, that even at the highest level, it's self-regulated - there are no referees," he said.

Zavitz described the game as bit like basketball, because when you catch the Frisbee, you have one pivot foot and cannot "travel" or run with the disc. It's also like football, because you score a point by catching the disc in the opposing team's end zone. When you catch the Frisbee, you have 10 seconds to throw it to a team-mate and if it hits the ground, possession goes to the other team.

"It's all about fairness and spirit of the game," he added, which became obvious at that moment as the opposing team cheered a well-played point.

"A lot of times at tournaments, it's not the winning team that wins the prize, but the team with the best spirit," added Zavitz.

At present, Collingwood only has a pick-up league that plays Wednesday nights at Heritage Park. With an average of 40 players showing up, they manage a couple of games a night and if the numbers keep growing, Zavitz thinks they'll make a league with actual teams in the near future.

"Right now we just make up teams from whoever show up, but we had 15 new players sign up this year so having a draft and making teams is a real possibility," he said. "But we'll let the player decide that because it's really all about them and having fun."

In tournament play, team Simmer from Collingwood played a great game Sunday morning to advance to the semifinals, but got knocked off by the eventual winners "Bucketfish" from Peterborough.

The final game had Bucketfish versus Crisis (Waterloo) in an exciting and suspenseful back-and-forth game in the pouring rain. Bucketfish won 15-11 after staging a great comeback from being down 10-8.