Today IFIUS is honored to announce the approval by IPPA, the International Pitch&Putt Association, for accepting IFIUS as a supporting member of IPPA. Both the IFIUS Executive Committee and Robert Uggla, Secretary General of IPPA, feel that this new cooperation will improve the quality of the Games and promote the involvement and participation of the Interuniversity community to the World Interuniversity Games Pitch & Putt.

This month, the IFIUS Staff visited the 2010 Host City to look at the progress in the organization of the Valencia 2010 Games. Meetings with the Local Organizing Committee, the Host University, stewards,... were scheduled. In addition, the competition venues, including the Golf and Pitch&Putt course, were visited. The IFIUS Staff was excited to see that all organizational aspect were on schedule and that there is a lot of interest in volunteering for the Games.

It is with great pleasure that IFIUS announces that the registration period for the Valencia 2010 has been very successful. For the first time in the history of the Federation, we have confirmed participation requests from Australia and Algeria. Thus adding 2 extra continents to the already extensive list of registrations we have received from Europe, Asia and the Middle East.

Because the high number of information requests we have received from teams that still want to participate and the fact that our communication campaign in the Middle East region is still in progress, the IFIUS Executive Committee have decided to prolong the registration period for the 12th IFIUS World Interuniversity Games Valencia 2010. Universities or Colleges still interested in participating in the Games can still contact the Federation or fill out the registration page on the Valencia pages.

The results of the very successful communication campaign for the 12th IFIUS World Interuniversity Games Valencia 2010 are shown by the number of visitors on the website. Never before has the Federation seen so many people visiting the IFIUS website in this period of the year. Also, the great number of interest IFIUS is receiving from universities and colleges who want to participate in the Valencia 2010 Games is remarkable. Consequently, IFIUS has already received a promising number of participation requests.