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Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: CEValkyrie on July 26, 2004, 11:48:59 AM
Jon,
    Would you like to explain to someone who doesn't understand the grouping of players for a PDGA tournament?

For example, how a Intermediate player is grouped with Jr. Boys or how an Advanced Master is grouped with Int. Women.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Bruce Brakel on July 26, 2004, 01:01:28 PM
I am not Jon but I'll jump in.

The rule says that as much as is practical, players should only play with players in their own division and that pros should be mixed with ams only if absolutely necessary.

The rules also forbid 2-somes unless there is an official walking with the group, which is rarely practical.  The procedures document says to break up people who register at the same time to not wind up making groups of car pooling buddies.

Most TDs find it impractical to run 5-somes when they are running mostly 3-somes.  The fivesome will take three and a half hours to play their round but the fast threesome will be done in 2 hours.

So the TD starts off making his threesomes pretty much randomly but sorted by division, and then when he is done he has two am women, two pro women, one am master and a pro master left over.  If he makes a foursome of am masters he is left with five players and that is not going to work.  So he puts the pros with pros and ams with ams, and an am master is playing with two women.

But wait, there's more.  During the players meeting some guy wants to register late.  The TD wants his money and you want the value of another player in the field and we made a trophy for am grand so we want to give it away.  Hmmm, he has an intermediate rating so we put him with an existing group of intermediates.  Then, after we blow the two minute warning, a guy on a nearby tee asks if he can switch from intermediate to am master.  Sure, why not?  There is nothing in the rules about not switching and we just want happy players.

Now the leader board looks like we started off following the rule, and then just threw the last dozen players on there randomly.  
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At the IOS on Saturday we had two Am Masters, two left over juniors and two left over women.  Because junior boys often act like adults around adults and like animals around their peers, we split the junior boys onto the two other cards.  Then we had a guy switch from intermediate to am master after the two minute warning.  

On Sunday all the am women were originally going to play pro and it was going to be the Barrett Clinic.  Then an am woman registered towards the end and one switched to am.  Barrett was fine with the arrangement so we kept the women together.  
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Bruce Brakel on July 26, 2004, 01:11:53 PM
Ahh, but now i see we are talking about the afternoon.

In the afternoon, we usually take the odd players from the bottomof the field.  So on Saturday when we need a player to make a threes some with the two left over women, we took last place intermediate.  Same with the left over two junior boys.

The rationale is to take the player who is most out of the prizes out of his division.  All of the junior boys were in the prizes.  The fourth place woman was tied for last prize in her division.  The two intermediates were several strokes out of the prizes.


Moral of the story:  Don't be DFL after the morning round.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: mirth on July 26, 2004, 01:18:50 PM
QuoteDon't be DFL after the morning round.
Thats something I can relate to very well...
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: myndcraft on July 26, 2004, 01:45:01 PM
*runs and hides*
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Jon Brakel on July 26, 2004, 02:12:04 PM
QuoteJon,
    Would you like to explain to someone who doesn't understand the grouping of players for a PDGA tournament?

For example, how a Intermediate player is grouped with Jr. Boys or how an Advanced Master is grouped with Int. Women.
I would love to address this fully but it will have to wait until later when I have more time. I would like to comment on Bruce's post. I think his remark about the Jr. boys was rather flippant and does not represent my feelings. Those kids are real people and shouldn't be treated like they belong to some kind of undesireable demographic. That said, I agree with splitting them up only because if an adult is put into a group of 3 with the other 2 being jrs., he will probably feel out of place. It is probably not the experience he came to the tournament for. If we were running four-somes I would have no problem putting 2 jrs. with 2 adults if the numbers made sense.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Jon Brakel on July 26, 2004, 05:56:22 PM
QuoteJon,
    Would you like to explain to someone who doesn't understand the grouping of players for a PDGA tournament?

For example, how a Intermediate player is grouped with Jr. Boys or how an Advanced Master is grouped with Int. Women.
I find it necessary to explain everything I can think of regarding this. I'm sorry if you were looking for the condesed reader's digest version.

First the rules that govern:

804.06  GROUPING & SECTIONING  
A. Professional and Amateur players should not be grouped together, and all players from different divisions shall be segregated from each other during play as much as practicable.

B. All players within a division shall be randomly grouped for the first round and grouped by cumulative score for each round thereafter.

C. Groups shall not be less than three players, except under extenuating circumstances, as deemed necessary by the director, to promote fairness. In cases where fewer than three players are required to play together, an official is required to accompany the group and may play as long as this does not interfere with the competing players.

804.07  TIES  
A. If there is a tie at the level of a cut, all players at that level shall advance.

B. Between rounds when the groups are being reset, tied positions shall be broken. The player with the lowest score in the most recent round shall have the highest ranking when the scorecards/positions are reset. In the event of low score ties, the ties shall be broken by the director through any consistently applied manner.

As the registration cards come in I start putting them on the leader board. I start with the division that most of my volunteers are playing and put them on the board near tournament central. I put 1 player on each hole and start spreading them out. My largest division is going to be advanced and that's usually where my main volunteers (Bruce and Brett) are playing.

Example 1
I start spreading the Advanced onto 10 holes, one on each hole as they register. This helps to seperate guys who travel together. I also take a look at where they are from. I think it's nice to group people together from different areas--it's a social thing. Once I get 10 advanced registration/leaderboard cards then I start making two-somes on each hole. Near the end of registration I don't have enough Advanced players to make three-somes on 10 holes, so I start "shoring up" the adv cards into three-somes. I have 19 advanced players and tournament numbers allow for running three-somes for the day. I can run 6 three-somes and have 1 left over. For the time being I make a four-some of the left over advanced player. At the same time (because people don't register neatly by division) I'm doing this to the other divisions. I have 2 pro women and 2 am women. I put them together for now. I get 10 Open players and put them in 3 three-somes and put the left over on a hole by himself hoping to get a two more registered in the last minutes of registration. I have 5 Pro Masters. I have spread them over 2 holes. Giving up on the idea that I'm going to get 1 more Pro Master and 2 more Open, I put the left over Open in the group with 2 Pro Masters. So, now I have 2 more players in the entire field of divisions than would be even three-somes across the board. I've already made a four-some of Adv and I have the four-some of women (half pro, half am). The rules tell me not to run the pros and ams together whenever practical. It is no longer practical. I have to run two four-somes. There is no rule to tell me to put the women together and to put the open and pro masters together. It's an art, not a science. In addition to the four-somes, I also put the gap of holes (it was not a full field of three-somes) behind the four-somes. This allows the rest of the field of three-somes to play at there own pace AND the four-somes to play at their naturally slower pace. The three-somes don't have to wait and the four-somes don't feel rushed. We take our lunch break for an hour after the LAST card comes in so everyone gets at least an hour for lunch. Of course I only have this luxury in tournaments where we are getting less than 50 players per day, but when it happens it's a nice touch to do for the players.

Example 2
OK, now for the lower division day example. There are more divisions, so I'm going to list the numbers first.

Recreational: 12
Jr. Boys: 5
Adv Masters: 3
Int: 14
Int Women: 5
Pro 2: 3

That's 42 total players which is 14 groups of three-somes. Nice number, but now it gets tricky. During most of registration it looked like I had 15 intermediates and 1 adv master. Since there was only 1 adv master, one guy decided to play intermediate instead of adv master. So, at this point I lock in the Intermediates into 5 three-somes. The Pro 2 guys are a lock in their three-some. I put 3 jr. boys on another card. I have a late registering adv master and put him with the other adv master. I lock in 3 intermediate women on a card. Now I have 2 intermediate women, 2 adv masters, and 2 jrs. to get onto cards. Combined these 6 people need to get onto two cards. The int women are a jr. girl playing up and an intermediate woman. I've decided to split the jrs. but am thinking that the int woman doesn't deserve to play with two jrs. So, I'm in a tough spot. I don't mind playing a round with juniors and women, so I take myself off a Rec card and put me with the two int women. I put a jr. onto the rec card that I was on. I put the remaining jr. onto the adv master card. Players meeting takes place, players leave to go out to their holes. The adv master who registered as an int finds out there's 2 adv masters and asks one of the non-playing officials (the TD of the day) if he can switch to adv masters since another registered after he did. The TD says ok, but since everyone is heading out to their holes already he would have to play the first round with the int group he is in. He says OK.

Now lets go to the between round break. The Adv masters are put into a three-some for the afternoon round. Since int women are so often paired with jrs. the TD puts the odd 2 jrs. with an int and the other odd int with the two odd int women. It was not practical to keep everyone playing in their divisions. These TDs choose to put the bottom of the division players mixed with the odd divisions. In this case the bottom intermediates were most likely not going to shoot back into the prizes, but the jrs. had a shot. The jrs. were more worthy of playing together than the intermediates in this case because of how well they had played relative to their division. We try our hardest not to mix division players who are in the hunt for prizes in the second round. But again it's an art, not a science. As such some people will not care for our "art" and I can live with that.

Grouping and Sectioning 101 is dismissed.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Bruce Brakel on July 26, 2004, 06:54:42 PM
"Flippant" is a compliment, right?    ;)

Jon is so much better at the leaderboard thing than I am.  This is how I do a leaderboard:

1.  What is the farthest hole?  Put Jamie Mosier there.  [Illinois translation:  Put Mike Kutella there.]  

2.  Who most horked me off at the least tournament?  They get to play with Jamie Mosier and walk that extra mile.

3.  Throw the rest of the cards on the board without looking at the names so I can claim it was all random.

I think I'm being flippant again.   :rolleyes:  
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Jon Brakel on July 26, 2004, 07:20:21 PM
Only you would think flippant is a compliment.  ;) And yes, you are being flippant again. Anyway, I think I am good at the leaderboard because it uses the same part of the brain that scheduling at the cafeteria did and I did that for 4 years. I also like using that part of my brain every once in a while.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: CEValkyrie on July 27, 2004, 08:30:59 AM
Thanks for the explanation guys. Jon, thanks for spending the time to really get into detail. This may help players understand why they are playing with players of another division.  
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Dan Michler on July 27, 2004, 12:47:09 PM
I told my boss that she was flippant today, thinking it was a compliment because Bruce said so, and now I am looking for a new job.   thanks alot bruce.  ur so flippin flippant.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: mirth on July 27, 2004, 01:35:25 PM
Nah, they just finally found out you've been pharming.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Guest on July 27, 2004, 02:39:48 PM
well CEValkryie,
    maybe if you would tell people that certain things are or are not allowed; not saying it wasnt allowed because the "rulebook" said it was, then maybe there would have never been a problem, or for that matter very rude sarcasm to which you are refering to certain people without having enough testosterone to say the name or names to the thing or things that you let or did not let happen. i mean in reality if you hadn't let some old weird dude do whatever it is that he wanted to do. then i dont think those "someones who doesnt understand the grouping of players" wouldnt have had a problem with it in the first place. if it was done properly. i mean really. what would it have taken so that there wasnt a problem? a hey you old weird dude, go run over there and play with the other people in your division. and then an oh no scratch out the names on the scorecards and write the new ones? i mean to solve the problem and not bother many people it could have easily been addessed. maybe if those in charge had done the right thing by finishing what they started, which was putting everyone in right groups, or taking a few minutes to switch people and cards around, it wouldnt be such a big deal to those, i mean you, who seemed to have a problem by posting a dumb request of talking about people to other people on the internet and being extremly rude about it.

thanx for your time, and have a great day!
see ya at the next tourney ;-)
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: mirth on July 27, 2004, 03:25:36 PM
Myk's right. Trolls will be trolls....
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: mirth on July 27, 2004, 03:30:55 PM
And I think the reason why it was allowed is because the rulebook doesn't say one can't change divisions before the tournament started.

You're certainly local, Guest....
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Myk on July 27, 2004, 04:02:50 PM
Part of me wanted to start a huge flame war, but then I remembered that I shouldn't do that anymore.  Instead I would like to thank our guest for voicing his opinions about the tournement.  All forms of criticism are accepted and appreciated.  Please be advised that the next tournament will be run by me with help from Bruce B., Jon B., Brett C., and Allan S..  It will be run very similar to the IOS.  Just wanted to point that out so you know and can accordingly.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Dan Michler on July 27, 2004, 06:51:48 PM
well Guest,
If certain things were not done this certain way just to please this one certain person then i guess there must be some sort of conspiracy against the said person.  this must have caused the certain people to talk about people to other people on the internet, that being the people with low testosterone i think.

well now i'm a little confused.  my writing skills aren't quite up to par with 'guest'.  he did have one thing right though, CE Valkyrie does have very little testosterone.

Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Jon Brakel on July 27, 2004, 07:56:00 PM
Quote...Please be advised that the next tournament will be run by me with help from Bruce B., Jon B., Brett C., and Allan S...
I thought that the next tournament is IOS #3 The Fairfield Farewell?  :D
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Bruce Brakel on July 27, 2004, 08:01:49 PM
[flippant]All I know is if anyone signs his registration card, "Guest unregistered," he better enjoy playing with Jamie Mosier and be looking forward to a long walk to his tee hole in the morning!  I'm thinking his group starts on the overflow holes at Adler.[/flippant]

Seriously, if we had not allowed that late switching am master to switch, the horked off party still would have had to play with a junior in the morning because there would have only been two am masters looking for an odd player.  Then in the afternoon they would have been playing with the last place woman because she was out of it in her division.  So by allowing the switch all the am masters got to play together for one round.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Jon Brakel on July 27, 2004, 08:11:39 PM
Guest,

Once the guy that had registered as an Intermediate asked to be switched to Advanced Master there were only two options.

1) Allow the switch and the guy plays with the Intermediate group the 1st round. The second round the Advanced Masters get to play in a three-some with only their division in it. The other two Advanced Masters play the 1st round with the jr.

2) Don't allow the switch. The guy continues with the tournament playing Intermediate. The two Advanced Masters play with the jr. the first round and with one of the lower finishing Int Women the second round.

I can't think of a situation in which I would allow shuffling of players on the tee pad. I've been to tournaments where this has been done and it is always a mess. It would not have been fair to the jr. on the card to tell him he has to run half way across the course to get onto a different card two minutes before tee off.

I did not have to run Advanced Masters since there wasn't the PDGA minimum number of players required for me to run it. I usually do run the micro-divisions even when they don't make the minimum because I think it helps to support those micro divisions and I think that's good for the sport. If members of those micro divisions complain about who they get grouped with I might reconsider running the division. I don't need the trouble.

Barrett White, one of my favorite disc golf players, tells me when I put her in groups with Amateurs "I'm just glad to be here. Thanks for running my division!" I love her.

See you at Farifield!

Jon The Some-what Frustrated TD
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: mirth on July 27, 2004, 08:16:38 PM
Quote
Quote...Please be advised that the next tournament will be run by me with help from Bruce B., Jon B., Brett C., and Allan S...
I thought that the next tournament is IOS #3 The Fairfield Finale?  :D
I thought its the Fairfield Fairwell?
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Jon Brakel on July 27, 2004, 08:22:14 PM
Quote
Quote
Quote...Please be advised that the next tournament will be run by me with help from Bruce B., Jon B., Brett C., and Allan S...
I thought that the next tournament is IOS #3 The Fairfield Finale?  :D
I thought its the Fairfield Fairwell?
Well, I guess you know how I voted on the name of the tournament!  ;)

It's also a running joke if it's Fairfield Farewell or Fairfield Fairwell.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: CEValkyrie on July 27, 2004, 09:57:16 PM
Quotewell CEValkryie,
    maybe if you would tell people that certain things are or are not allowed; not saying it wasnt allowed because the "rulebook" said it was, then maybe there would have never been a problem, or for that matter very rude sarcasm to which you are refering to certain people without having enough testosterone to say the name or names to the thing or things that you let or did not let happen. i mean in reality if you hadn't let some old weird dude do whatever it is that he wanted to do. then i dont think those "someones who doesnt understand the grouping of players" wouldnt have had a problem with it in the first place. if it was done properly. i mean really. what would it have taken so that there wasnt a problem? a hey you old weird dude, go run over there and play with the other people in your division. and then an oh no scratch out the names on the scorecards and write the new ones? i mean to solve the problem and not bother many people it could have easily been addessed. maybe if those in charge had done the right thing by finishing what they started, which was putting everyone in right groups, or taking a few minutes to switch people and cards around, it wouldnt be such a big deal to those, i mean you, who seemed to have a problem by posting a dumb request of talking about people to other people on the internet and being extremly rude about it.

thanx for your time, and have a great day!
see ya at the next tourney ;-)
I'm not sure what the problem is. I apologize if you think there was some type of rude sarcasm aimed at you.

Here is my original post.
Jon,
Would you like to explain to someone who doesn't understand the grouping of players for a PDGA tournament?

For example, how a Intermediate player is grouped with Jr. Boys or how an Advanced Master is grouped with Int. Women.



Here is why I posted this. On Saturday, there was a player who did not understand why he had to play with the Junior Boys for the 2nd round & another player who didn't understand why he had to play with the Intermediate Women. Both players were Intermediate players.

Also, on Sunday, The best first round Advanced score was -7. There were three -6's. The -7 & 2 of the -6's were on the lead card. One of the -6's was bumped to the 2nd card. Jon bumped the player who was not a PDGA member to the 2nd card. I think that's fair. Having a PDGA membership has it's advantages.

There was an Open player that had to play with the Pro Masters both rounds as well.

My post was to discuss how PDGA Tournament Groupings work & educate players in this area. Not to slam or bash anyone.

As far as your post. We all go to tournaments to play disc golf. I don't care who's in my group, I just play my own game anyway. Just have some fun playing disc golf & don't worry what is going on around you. You can control your game, not how situations are handled around you. I'm sorry you didn't like the way the situation was handled. Maybe you could assist us at the next tournament & make sure all 42 players are happy with every decision made.

Also, If I was told there was another player added to my division, i'd be like, hell yeah, another player. Cool! Especially if there were only 2 in my division to start with.

Last, that old weird dude is a player just like you. If he wants to change divisions, he has every right to do so before the round starts.


Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: CEValkyrie on July 27, 2004, 10:14:03 PM
Quotehe did have one thing right though, CE Valkyrie does have very little testosterone.
Dan, does that mean you got whooped by a biaaatch this past weekend? :D  
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Jon Brakel on July 28, 2004, 05:53:03 AM
You know I put the rules about ties in there and then forgot to address it. When we have ties we have to use a set method across the board to determine order on the card and who gets on the upper card. We use PDGA membership first. PDGA members get to be on the upper card before non-members. Next we use PDGA number. The lower number gets to be on the upper card before the higher number. For ties for non-members we use random selection. For ties for a play off or the Pro Final Four we use the hot round method where the player with the best round of the two gets the upper spot.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Guest on July 28, 2004, 06:40:36 AM
i don't understand why people like to assume that just because i put my say in something, that you have to assume that i am a "he" or a "his" yea i think that before you go off trying to get upset in a manly strong way that if i had said this to your face, you wouldn't have quiet expressed your anger or whatever it is that you had when you read it, if you had known that i was a 15 year old gurl... in which i am refering to dan, and myke....... L8eR
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Myk on July 28, 2004, 06:54:41 AM
Quotei don't understand why people like to assume that just because i put my say in something, that you have to assume that i am a "he" or a "his" yea i think that before you go off trying to get upset in a manly strong way that if i had said this to your face, you wouldn't have quiet expressed your anger or whatever it is that you had when you read it, if you had known that i was a 15 year old gurl... in which i am refering to dan, and myke....... L8eR
Okay, so you're a 15 year old girl.  I still would have thanked you for your opinion, which I honestly thank you for, and still tried to inform you incorectly that the DISContinuum Blast was the next tourney.  I didn't intentionally try to misinform you though as I had forgotten that the Fairfield Fairwell was the next tourney.  If you really read anger in my last post, I apologize, it was not my intent.  Whether you are a 15 year old girl or a 40 something old man, I'll value your opinion.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Bruce Brakel on July 28, 2004, 11:53:07 AM
Quote
Quote
Quote...Please be advised that the next tournament will be run by me with help from Bruce B., Jon B., Brett C., and Allan S...
I thought that the next tournament is IOS #3 The Fairfield Finale?  :D
I thought its the Fairfield Fairwell?
Did Fairfield Foto Finish get voted down?  
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: mirth on July 28, 2004, 12:14:54 PM
People vote around here?
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Jon Brakel on July 28, 2004, 01:00:32 PM
QuotePeople vote around here?
I think it was just The Trio that came up with names. But between the three of us we came up with about 8 names for the Fairfield leg. My name for the Crystal Lake leg was The Crystal Method, but I was quickly out voted on that one.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: damonshort on July 28, 2004, 07:47:48 PM
QuoteGrouping and Sectioning 101 is dismissed.
Let's move on to level 201.

Say you're the tournament director in the following scenario:

Say, you're the tournament director in the following scenario!

Junior boys < 10: 5
Junior girls < 19: 2
Junior girls < 16: 3
Junior girls < 13: 3

How would this be handled? Do you just send 'officials' out with the 2somes?

You've also got 44 old men and 11 very old men, but I'm thinking they don't figure into this...
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Jon Brakel on July 28, 2004, 08:58:16 PM
Quote
QuoteGrouping and Sectioning 101 is dismissed.
Let's move on to level 201.

Say you're the tournament director in the following scenario:

Say, you're the tournament director in the following scenario!

Junior boys < 10: 5
Junior girls < 19: 2
Junior girls < 16: 3
Junior girls < 13: 3

How would this be handled? Do you just send 'officials' out with the 2somes?

You've also got 44 old men and 11 very old men, but I'm thinking they don't figure into this...
I would like to play, so I would purposely make some two-somes. Officials walking with are always welcome to play. The other way to do it would be to mix the divisions--mixing only the jrs. not the old men. I think that's what's going to happen. Of course, I have no say that I know of about it. I think those decisions will come from higher up.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: mirth on July 28, 2004, 09:32:05 PM
My initial reaction was to say I'd send a chaperone with the fivesome of boys and split the two < 19 girls with the < 16 and < 13 groups.

Not really fair for the 16, 17, or 18 year old girls cuz they wouldn't be able to play with each other... But they'd be helping to guide their younger colleagues in tournament play (assuming they've seen previous tournament rounds).
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Jon Brakel on July 28, 2004, 09:43:52 PM
QuoteMy initial reaction was to say I'd send a chaperone with the fivesome of boys and split the two < 19 girls with the < 16 and < 13 groups.

Not really fair for the 16, 17, or 18 year old girls cuz they wouldn't be able to play with each other... But they'd be helping to guide their younger colleagues in tournament play (assuming they've seen previous tournament rounds).
A five-some of jr boys under 10, even with an escort, is going to take FOREVER to play. The girls would like to mix during Worlds and I let the powers that be know that. Hopefully since they are willing to mix they won't mind playing with the under 10 boys also. The girls think it wouldn't be as much fun if they only played with the girls in their division for the entire week.
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: mirth on July 29, 2004, 07:14:52 AM
Since when did Worlds come into the equation?
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Jon Brakel on July 29, 2004, 08:03:01 AM
QuoteSince when did Worlds come into the equation?
That's what Damon has been talking about. When else would you have 44 Grand Masters and 11 Legends?
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Bruce Brakel on July 29, 2004, 08:21:59 AM
Quote
QuoteSince when did Worlds come into the equation?
That's what Damon has been talking about. When else would you have 44 Grand Masters and 11 Legends?
In a cemetary?
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: damonshort on July 29, 2004, 09:28:48 AM
Quote
QuoteSince when did Worlds come into the equation?
That's what Damon has been talking about. When else would you have 44 Grand Masters and 11 Legends?
Actually, they're Senior Grandmasters, not Legends. SG1 is over 60, I think Legends is over 70, but there are no Amateur or Advanced Legends, only Pro Legends.

I think the next division over 80 is called Miracles or something....
Title: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Jon Brakel on July 29, 2004, 09:50:05 AM
Quote
Quote
QuoteSince when did Worlds come into the equation?
That's what Damon has been talking about. When else would you have 44 Grand Masters and 11 Legends?
Actually, they're Senior Grandmasters, not Legends. SG1 is over 60, I think Legends is over 70, but there are no Amateur or Advanced Legends, only Pro Legends.

I think the next division over 80 is called Miracles or something....
Oops, my mistake. But shouldn't they be Great Grand Masters?  :)  
Title: Re: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: DiscGolfSchodt on November 10, 2006, 03:19:10 PM
Tournament results were just updated on the PDGA site
Title: Re: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Tom McManus on November 10, 2006, 04:14:13 PM
Quote from: Tenny Schimo on November 10, 2006, 03:19:10 PM
Tournament results were just updated on the PDGA site

Kind of strange that IOS #7 Pro/Advanced is listed but not the Am tourney.
Title: Re: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Bruce Brakel on November 10, 2006, 04:45:32 PM
Quote from: Tom McManus on November 10, 2006, 04:14:13 PM
Quote from: Tenny Schimo on November 10, 2006, 03:19:10 PM
Tournament results were just updated on the PDGA site

Kind of strange that IOS #7 Pro/Advanced is listed but not the Am tourney.
Both halves were there last night.  Both halves are there now.  Look again.  Maybe it was on the line on the bifocals or something. 
Title: Re: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Tom McManus on November 10, 2006, 10:01:42 PM
Quote from: bruce_brakel on November 10, 2006, 04:45:32 PM
Quote from: Tom McManus on November 10, 2006, 04:14:13 PM
Quote from: Tenny Schimo on November 10, 2006, 03:19:10 PM
Tournament results were just updated on the PDGA site

Kind of strange that IOS #7 Pro/Advanced is listed but not the Am tourney.
Both halves were there last night.  Both halves are there now.  Look again.  Maybe it was on the line on the bifocals or something. 

Advanced
Place Points Tournament Date(s) Total Prize
19  80 DISContinuum Club Invitational  18-Aug-2006  144   
 
Advanced Masters
Place Points Tournament Date(s) Total Prize
7  48 Gentlemen's Club Challenge  24-Feb to 26-Feb-2006  235   
1  16 Wisconsin Tour Warm Up  18-Mar-2006  120   
23  304 Bowling Green Amateur Championships  01-Apr to 02-Apr-2006  232   
2  48 IOS #1 at Kenosha - Pro / Adv  22-Apr-2006  126   
1  12 Fond du Lac Open  23-Apr-2006  104   
3  4 21st Annual Oly Spring Fling  30-Apr-2006  159   
1  36 Tower Ridge Open  06-May to 07-May-2006  123   
1  30 Wakanda Park Open - Sunday  07-May-2006  109   
4  4 Fox Valley Open  13-May-2006  109   
6  24 Hot Rags IOS #2 at Lombard - Pro / Adv  20-May-2006  143   
12  64 Greater Des Moines Challenge  27-May to 28-May-2006  277   
9  8 Lumber Cup - Pro/Adv  04-Jun-2006  170   
4  54 Pickle Open  18-Jun-2006  124   
7  8 Michiana Open  01-Jul to 02-Jul-2006  242   
3  60 Manitowalk in the Park VI  16-Jul-2006  137   
2  48 14th Mad City Open - Pro/Adv  23-Jul-2006  124   
10  18 IOS #4 Forest City Frenzy - Pro/Adv  29-Jul-2006  136   
7  42 Greater Milwaukee Open  05-Aug-2006  114   
5  24 IOS #5 Streamwood Sturgeon - Pro/Adv  12-Aug-2006  135   
2  24 4th Annual Prairie Open  27-Aug-2006  119   
8  54 Northwoods Open - Ams  02-Sep to 03-Sep-2006  168   
2  42 IOS #6 at Aurora Borealis - Pro / Adv  16-Sep-2006  138   
2  16 Wisconsin Tour Finale  30-Sep-2006  122   
2  36 Capital City Challenge  07-Oct-2006  113   
7  24 5th Annual Homie's Fall Classic  08-Oct-2006  130   
2  48 IOS #7 Fairfield Fairwell - Pro/Adv  14-Oct-2006  122   
 
Intermediate
Place Points Tournament Date(s) Total Prize
19  258 Wham Bam Thank You Am - Int / Juniors  03-Jun-2006  110   

What I was referring to is tournies listed in the player's statistics.  Perhaps I wasn't clear while making an observation or maybe you just didn't understand my point while making a wise ass comment. The second day stats for IOS #7 are not listed in player stats while the first day are listed.
Title: Re: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Bruce Brakel on November 10, 2006, 10:51:12 PM
I'm sure it was you, not me. 

Probably Jon sent in the one that made the player stats just before they updated player stats and the other one just after.  They usually do those updates on the first of the month, but sometimes there's a lag between when they do them and when we see them. 
Title: Re: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Jon Brakel on November 11, 2006, 10:43:35 AM
Quote from: bruce_brakel on November 10, 2006, 10:51:12 PM
I'm sure it was you, not me. 

Probably Jon sent in the one that made the player stats just before they updated player stats and the other one just after.  They usually do those updates on the first of the month, but sometimes there's a lag between when they do them and when we see them. 

I sent them in the same e-mail!
Title: Re: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Bruce Brakel on November 09, 2009, 12:35:22 PM
This thread is funny if you read it from the beginning.  Well, I thought it was funny.  Mr. Guest Unregistered did not find it as funny. 

I was looking for an existing thread to toss out a scheduling tidbit that did not deserve a new thread.  This is not the thread for it, but that's o.k.  I'm done looking.

I got the Michigan preliminary tentative 2010 schedule yesterday night.  It has 157 Michigan tournaments, counting split-weekend tournaments as two tournaments.  [Maybe a third of the IOS players play both days, so it makes sense to count them that way.]  But if you treat split-weekenders as one tournament, there are still 148 tournaments.  There's something like ten tournaments in January alone! 

The schedule is not done.  Some TDs do not participate in the scheduling process.  Their tournaments might or might not get added on later depending on who and where they are and if they try to get on the schedule. 
Title: Re: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: stpitner on November 09, 2009, 01:23:59 PM
157?? sheesh - by comparison it was probably only 45-50 for Illinois.  There's definitely a lot of hot spots for disc golf in Michigan!
Title: Re: PDGA Sanctioned Tournaments
Post by: Jon Brakel on November 09, 2009, 03:19:24 PM
Bruce is the Internet Jesus...resurrecting threads that have been dead for three years!  ;D