In efforts to pub this event, I figured i'd start this thread. It will help track what courses have flyers posted. Here is a link to the flyer. If anyone needs copies, I have a ton.
http://discontinuum.org/forums/index.php?a...e=post&id=10915 (http://discontinuum.org/forums/index.php?act=Attach&type=post&id=10915)
Crystal Lake Park District is adding the series to their Spring Park Letter sent to residents.
I've posted flyers at these courses so far.
Waukegan
Libertyville
Mundelein
Round Lake
Crystal Lake
Jon, can you post flyers at Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove, Streamood, & Lombard when you get a chance?
Mirth might post flyers at both Highland Park courses & possibly Glencoe if he gets a chance.
Can someone in Kenosha post a flyer @ UWP?
Damon is posting flyers at any course he plays & Mike Walsh, AKA airspuds is posting flyers along the I-80 area. Thanks DISContinuum South!!
If anyone wants flyers, I have them. I made 200 copies to start. Please let me know if there is a course that needs a flyer. I'll try to get one up ASAP. Thanks!!
QuoteJon, can you post flyers at Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove, Streamood, & Lombard when you get a chance?
I'm going to try to hit a few of these today and play a round at each. If anyone is in the area and wants to join me, my cell phone number is: two, two, four 588-7834.
QuoteQuoteJon, can you post flyers at Buffalo Grove, Elk Grove, Streamood, & Lombard when you get a chance?
I'm going to try to hit a few of these today and play a round at each. If anyone is in the area and wants to join me, my cell phone number is: two, two, four 588-7834.
I'll be in the Lombard area Tuesday on 'business' in the morning; planning on playing in the PM, if it's not pouring rain I'll at least get flyers up.
Jon, let me know if you made it there or not.
QuoteI'll be in the Lombard area Tuesday on 'business' in the morning; planning on playing in the PM, if it's not pouring rain I'll at least get flyers up.
Jon, let me know if you made it there or not.
Not. I wound up playing a couple of rounds at BG and then it got really gusty. I put up two flyers at BG but didn't make it anywhere else.
Courses that have flyers.
Waukegan
Libertyville
Mundelein
Round Lake
Crystal Lake
Buffalo Grove
QuoteCourses that have flyers.
Waukegan
Libertyville
Mundelein
Round Lake
Crystal Lake
Buffalo Grove
Lombard - Madison Meadows - put it up on the gazebo by hole #1 - may not stay there. :huh:
Lombard - Commons - they have a bulletin board there, so that one should be cool
Waukegan
Libertyville
Mundelein
Round Lake
Crystal Lake
Buffalo Grove
Lombard- Madison Meadows
Lombard- Commons
THANKS DAMON!!!
Publicize this:
The Illinois Open Series is happy to announce that they've dumped their lame-ass Discraft-only merch supplier and are now working with a merch supplier who can meet your basic Innova needs. We will have Orcs, Monsters, Beasts, Eagle, Valks, Vikes, Rocs, Aviars and maybe even some icky Spiders. No, we will not have the 8X Whatever KC in the yellow plastic. But we will have whats current for this season. Plus plenty of Discraft and maybe a Gateway disc if you look hard.
will take the new flyer out to oly fields
hopefully this weekend
B)
Can someone post a flyer @ UW Parkside this weekend?
QuoteCan someone post a flyer @ UW Parkside this weekend?
I'll get the flyer up at Parkside.
QuoteQuoteCan someone post a flyer @ UW Parkside this weekend?
I'll get the flyer up at Parkside.
Thanks Sergio, you are the shizzznit!
Brett,
Do you want to play Elk Grove and/or Streamwood with me on Saturday?
Here's another little illinois open series development that some of you might care about: We are not doing stacks of plastic this year. Jon, Brett and I all think that for a tournament series funny money for the Ams is cool because you can spend it now or you can spend it later. If you finish in a three-way tie for last prizes and get $4 :P you can save it for next time and get something with it. If you win $50 you can save up for a Skill Shot. ;)
The main problem with funny money is that you put it in your wallet, play a round in a thunderstorm, and now you have funny paper pulp! :( I don't want to take advantage of anyone that way. It has happened to me and it kind of sucks.
So we are going to have special $1 and $5 brass coins [/size]for this event and every other Jon/Brett/Bruce event we do this year. The people who have seen and felt [and flipped and spun] samples of these coins all think that the $5 coin may be cooler than anything you could buy with it! The manufacturer's rep told me that small run coins similar to what we are doing sometimes become collectors items among token collectors and can sell for more than their face value. I'm not counting on that, but the cool collectible factor might help defray the cost of this unique concept.
This brass cash will be good all through 2004. If the concept works the way we hope, the brass cash will get even cooler in 2005. I'll have the real stuff in my greedy little hands in a week or two and then I'll toss a handful on the scanner and post a picture
I gotta hand it to you, bruce... You have come up with some pretty neat ideas but I think this one crowns them all!
QuoteI gotta hand it to you, bruce... You have come up with some pretty neat ideas but I think this one crowns them all!
Thank you. When I originally came up with this idea I thought over time we could work it to seize control of the international monetary system. :blink: But then I sat down, took off the tin foil hat, did the math and realized that we really wouldn't have the monetary power to seize control of anything bigger than Jim's car. :huh:
But, the idea is still cool. It just needed to sit on the back burner until the year I'd be doing nine or ten tournaments. Factored over nine or ten tournaments this costs about one entry fee at each event. I hope that guy shows up every time!
QuoteQuoteI gotta hand it to you, bruce... You have come up with some pretty neat ideas but I think this one crowns them all!
Thank you. When I originally came up with this idea I thought over time we could work it to seize control of the international monetary system. :blink: But then I sat down, took off the tin foil hat, did the math and realized that we really wouldn't have the monetary power to seize control of anything bigger than Jim's car. :huh:
But, the idea is still cool. It just needed to sit on the back burner until the year I'd be doing nine or ten tournaments. Factored over nine or ten tournaments this costs about one entry fee at each event. I hope that guy shows up every time!
This is one reason why I think the Brett-Bruce-Jon event leadership works. Bruce brings lots of imaginative ideas to the table. You can just imagine the ones that you and everyone else don't even hear about...if you know what I mean. ;)
Yeah, I can. Brett's told me some stories.
QuoteNo, we will not have the 8X Whatever KC in the yellow plastic.
^ Haha, nice one
Brass cash sounds awesome, are they going to have a specific design on them or something? Just wondering what it's going to be, or is it still classified information? :D
QuoteQuoteI gotta hand it to you, bruce... You have come up with some pretty neat ideas but I think this one crowns them all!
Thank you. When I originally came up with this idea I thought over time we could work it to seize control of the international monetary system. :blink: But then I sat down, took off the tin foil hat, did the math and realized that we really wouldn't have the monetary power to seize control of anything bigger than Jim's car. :huh:
But, the idea is still cool. It just needed to sit on the back burner until the year I'd be doing nine or ten tournaments. Factored over nine or ten tournaments this costs about one entry fee at each event. I hope that guy shows up every time!
HAHAHAHA Bruce you crack me up!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: I will help you take over Jims car if you'd like. I am in the market for one!!! ;)
I agree, Bruce, Jon, Brett, you guys come up with some great ideas.
Waukegan
Libertyville
Mundelein
Round Lake
Crystal Lake
Buffalo Grove
Lombard- Madison Meadows
Lombard- Commons
Olympia Fields
Mokena
Illinois Open web page has been updated to include links to individual pages for each leg of the series. I haven't added any content yet except for a mapquest link to a street map to help locate the course. I'm going to add tournament course notes, course pictures and course score card as they are available.
Thanks to everyone who has put up flyers in the last week or so! The web page is getting more hits and I've gotten a few phone calls just today from flyers that were put up.
Grass roots marketing works!!! :D
Barratt White took some schedules from me so she could point out the IOS to her homeboys. So did a guy from DeKalb. Since I was playing Pro2-Silver today i had several opportunities to chat with Pro 2 players and i pointed out that our five tournaments [2 MDGOs and 3 IOS] are about the only five tournaments in the midwest offering Pro 2. I explained that Pro 2 is on Saturday. They could make money Saturday while practicing the course and then let it ride on sunday. They liked that concept.
The Wisconsin guys were huffy about us running against their unsanctioned events. I told them that we scheduled around the sanctioned stuff and we had no way of knowing when Wisconsin is running below-the-radar unsanctioned stuff. Isn't there unsanctioned stuff every weekend? There is at Bevier! That calmed them down a little.
I finished in the top 1/3rd of Silver with a rating that puts me in the bottom 1/10th so i did ok. Based on the DGLO 2003 ratings I shot a 962 and a 943. I have to feel good about that.
Everyone I explained the brass cash to thought it was the coolest thing. The brass cash pays for itself if 5% of it is collected and saved for its coolness value. That could happen.
remember, it all expires on January 1, 2005. If there are any poker players out there wanting cool poker chips, talk to me January 1, 2005.
Jon gave Brian Cummings flyers when we played Mokena on Saturday. In return, we are passing out flyers for the Oly Spring Fling on April 25th.
Should put one up in the case @ bevier.
QuoteShould put one up in the case @ bevier.
Yes, I forgot on Sunday.
QuoteWaukegan
Libertyville
Mundelein
Round Lake
Crystal Lake
Buffalo Grove
Lombard- Madison Meadows
Lombard- Commons
Olympia Fields
Mokena
You can add Parkside to the list.
Waukegan
Libertyville
Mundelein
Round Lake
Crystal Lake
Buffalo Grove
Lombard- Madison Meadows
Lombard- Commons
Olympia Fields
Mokena
Kenosha
Thanks Sergio!!!!
You can take BG off the list. Its fairly obvious that its park employees that take the signs down because they are careful to take down all the tape as well. They are relentless in taking down signs, but they don't call "the offender" who would be me. I might start putting up a plain paper flyer every Friday evening figuring it might last until Monday.
Kelsey, Kira and I hit the resale shops Saturday looking for some knickerizable pants. We also founds some little frames that would be good for displaying a mint set of brass cash.
I called the manufacturer today to give them a credit card number because I did not have it when I placed my order and the guy who answered the phone told me that my coins were being pressed even as we spoke. He could hear the machine running. So I asked if they would come in paper or plastic rolls and he said that they would just come in buckets.
This was slightly disappointing because technically none of them will be "mint" when we receive them. So Kelsey had an idea. Instead of labeling them "mint sets," she suggested putting a drop of mint oil on each frame and calling them "minty sets."
So we did find some knickerizable pants. Kelsey tried to make these hideous black and orange striped eye stabbers using my disc dyes. The black and orange did not stay where she put it and now I have these orangish pants with smoky swirls.
Posted on several forums
PDGA Discussion Board
http://www.pdga.com/ (http://www.pdga.com/)
Minnesota Frisbee Asociation
http://www.mfaonline.org/ (http://www.mfaonline.org/)
Des Moines Disc Golf Club
http://www.dsmdiscgolf.org/ (http://www.dsmdiscgolf.org/)
Joliet Disc Golf
http://www.jolietdiscgolf.com/ (http://www.jolietdiscgolf.com/)
Bloomington, IN Disc Golf Club
http://www.bdgc.org/ (http://www.bdgc.org/)
Gateway Disc Sports
http://www.gdstour.com/stlCourses/creve.html (http://www.gdstour.com/stlCourses/creve.html)
Another.
Columbus Flyers Disc Golf Club
http://www.columbusdiscgolf.com/ (http://www.columbusdiscgolf.com/)
Wilbur has updated the calendar at illinoisdiscgolf.com (http://www.illinoisdiscgolf.com) to reflect the upgrade to B-tier for Amateur divisions for the IO Series.
streamwood has one on 1
and i put one up on 2
Quotestreamwood has one on 1
and i put one up on 2
Thank you for your support! :)
Waukegan, IL
Libertyville, IL
Mundelein, IL
Round Lake, IL
Crystal Lake, IL
Buffalo Grove, IL
Lombard, IL - Madison Meadows
Lombard, IL - Commons
Olympia Fields, IL
Mokena, IL
Streamwood, IL
Kenosha, WI
streamwood pics
http://photos.yahoo.com/airspuds@sbcglobal.net (http://photos.yahoo.com/airspuds@sbcglobal.net)
Quotestreamwood pics
http://photos.yahoo.com/airspuds@sbcglobal.net (http://photos.yahoo.com/airspuds@sbcglobal.net)
Nice pictures. I like the early morning sun.
Brett, I put one up at Turkey Creek.
Thanks Aric!!
Waukegan, IL
Libertyville, IL
Mundelein, IL
Round Lake, IL
Crystal Lake, IL
Buffalo Grove, IL
Lombard, IL - Madison Meadows
Lombard, IL - Commons
Olympia Fields, IL
Mokena, IL
Streamwood, IL
Kenosha, WI
Coralville, IA
Let me make sure I understand:
It's $33 for each tournament you play, not for the entire series, correct? For example, I can't play in Streamwood, so if I sign up for Crystal Lake and Round Lake I'd pay $66.
Just looking for clarification.
QuoteLet me make sure I understand:
It's $33 for each tournament you play, not for the entire series, correct? For example, I can't play in Streamwood, so if I sign up for Crystal Lake and Round Lake I'd pay $66.
Just looking for clarification.
You would pay $33 for each tournament. So, if you went to two tournaments you would pay $66. However, if you select a $10 bill as your player's pack, you would only be spending $46. Ams will have a choice of 2 player's packs. $15 in funny money (spend it right away or save it for later) or $10 cash.
You also have the choice of playing both days ( by playing up on Sunday), so you could spend more, if you wanted to. ;)
Quote$15 in funny money (spend it right away or save it for later) or $10 cash.
Just a further point of clarification:
You could also spend your $10 cash rebate right away. We are set up to take cash. :D
I'm looking forward to seeing people take $10 in cash and then walking over to the merch and spending it! :lol: Know yourself. If you are going to spend the $10 rebate, take the funny money instead!
QuoteThanks Aric!!
Waukegan, IL
Libertyville, IL
Mundelein, IL
Round Lake, IL
Crystal Lake, IL
Buffalo Grove, IL
Lombard, IL - Madison Meadows
Lombard, IL - Commons
Olympia Fields, IL
Mokena, IL
Streamwood, IL
Kenosha, WI
Coralville, IA
flyers posted today at:
Milan IL - Camden Park (back of #1 teepost, may not stay)
Geneseo IL - Richmond Hill Park (bulletin board there, should stay up)
Quad-City DG Club has a 'guestbook' but it's full - thought about posting the flyer there... http://www.geocities.com/qcdiscgolf/ (http://www.geocities.com/qcdiscgolf/)
(Vollrath in Sheboygan isn't in til May; no place to put one at the Quarry. May get up there again before the end of June [Pickle Open is the wknd before Streamwood but IL Champs is the same day so I don't know....] - didn't make it to Manitowoc, we were only up there one day and I was feeling lousy.)
I played Glencoe today, there really isn't a place to post a flyer.
Thanks Damon & on the attempt Mirth.
In the past when i've not found a bulletin board i try to find a small tree near one of the tees and tape the flyer on the tree using clear tape.
Waukegan, IL
Libertyville, IL
Mundelein, IL
Round Lake, IL
Crystal Lake, IL
Buffalo Grove, IL
Lombard, IL - Madison Meadows
Lombard, IL - Commons
Olympia Fields, IL
Mokena, IL
Streamwood, IL
Milan, IL
Geneseo, IL
Kenosha, WI
Coralville, IA
I put one up at Palatine today.
Waukegan, IL
Libertyville, IL
Mundelein, IL
Round Lake, IL
Crystal Lake, IL
Buffalo Grove, IL
Lombard, IL - Madison Meadows
Lombard, IL - Commons
Olympia Fields, IL
Mokena, IL
Streamwood, IL
Milan, IL
Geneseo, IL
Palatine, IL
Kenosha, WI
Coralville, IA
Waukegan, IL
Libertyville, IL
Mundelein, IL
Round Lake, IL
Crystal Lake, IL
Buffalo Grove, IL
Lombard, IL - Madison Meadows
Lombard, IL - Commons
Olympia Fields, IL
Mokena, IL
Streamwood, IL
Milan, IL
Geneseo, IL
Palatine, IL
Wildwood, IL
Kenosha, WI
Coralville, IA
QuotePosted on several forums
PDGA Discussion Board
http://www.pdga.com/ (http://www.pdga.com/)
Minnesota Frisbee Asociation
http://www.mfaonline.org/ (http://www.mfaonline.org/)
Des Moines Disc Golf Club
http://www.dsmdiscgolf.org/ (http://www.dsmdiscgolf.org/)
Joliet Disc Golf
http://www.jolietdiscgolf.com/ (http://www.jolietdiscgolf.com/)
Bloomington, IN Disc Golf Club
http://www.bdgc.org/ (http://www.bdgc.org/)
Gateway Disc Sports
http://www.gdstour.com/stlCourses/creve.html (http://www.gdstour.com/stlCourses/creve.html)
I put information on Rockfords online forum. GRABM Message Board (http://grabm.home.insightbb.com)
Posted here-> http://www.discgolfclub.org/SDGCMain.htm (http://www.discgolfclub.org/SDGCMain.htm)
Springfield Disc Golf Club
QuotePosted here-> http://www.discgolfclub.org/SDGCMain.htm (http://www.discgolfclub.org/SDGCMain.htm)
Springfield Disc Golf Club
Brett, how come you use that weird link with the % in it and stuff when you post about the IOS. I realize it works, but its strange.
I'm pretty sure the "%" is just representing a space in the url.. (back me up on this webmasters?) but I'm not positive.
QuoteBrett, how come you use that weird link with the % in it and stuff when you post about the IOS. I realize it works, but its strange.
I copied and pasted it.
%20 is a blank space in the world of URLs
Is there anyone that is going to be at leagues on Sunday going to play the Prairie Open? I cannot play the Prairie Open since my sister is getting married that Saturday. I have some flyers if someone would like to pick them up then set them out on Saturday & Sunday.
Also, webmasters, can you get a link to the Prairie Open on the DISContinuum Index2?
Yeah, Jojo and I are planning on playing. Bring them to leagues this week and I'll make sure they get out.
Thanks Myk!! I'll have them for you on Sunday.
Dan handed out fliers at the Elver Open on Sunday. Thanks Dan!!!
Dan will be setting out fliers at the Prairie Open & i'll be taking a bunch to Peoria.
The IOS Web (http://home.comcast.net/~illinoisopen/illinoisopenindex.html) has been updated. I added a pre-reg form to the main IOS page. I also added a link on the Streamwood Starter page to the DISContinuum.org page for Shady Oaks park pictures and descriptions.
Looks good Jon!!
Jon, bring IOS flyers to Flip City. The USDGC thing is allegedly bringing in some players from Indiana, Kalamazoo and other places not so far from Chicago.
Posted a flyer at Northwoods in Morton today.
Flyers were handed out to all Advanced Players at the Greater Peoria Open.
Damon is taking flyers to the Pickle Open next week.
Jon, Are you going to Illinois State Championships?