Ultra Match

After the Swiss Championships had grown over the years into large international matches, we were planning to make another step forward  and created the Ultra Matches for 2023.

It was an initiative to realize large matches under the IDPA sport rules. The Ultra Matches were intended to breakthrough common boundaries and provide new dimensions for the participants: 20+ stages, 300+ rounds and 2+ days! Those were dimensions so far unheard of in IDPA.

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The 2023 Swiss International Championships held in Italy  was the first and the EuroAfrica Championship held in Kenya was the second of the Ultra Match series in 2023. A third match in Bangkok, Thailand was planned but, unfortunately, had to be canceled due to reasons beyond our influence.

Unfortunately, the huge efforts made to elevate the IDPA sport to a new level and the great results achieved have not been received well by the IDPA 'chain of command'. The match approval processes were a seemingly endless ordeal of back and forth emails, were change requests by the approval body were not based on the rule book but merely on personal opinions. No support whatsoever was given for organization, sponsor search and marketing.

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Although the matches were very successful, we don't think that the IDPA shooting sport is the right framework for the future.  We are now working hard to continue with the Ultra Matches under a new sport umbrella and we will provide an even more exciting format to the shooters. Stay tuned!