10 x GBDS CC CHALLENGE 10.04.08
Title Sponsor for the 10x Capital City Challenge is Gorilla Boy Disc Sports. This B-tier event will be held on October 4, 2008.
Associate Sponsors are some of the biggest names in Disc Golf:
Innova
Discraft
Dynamic Discs
Prime Discs
and LSDiscs
If you are interested in be a sponsor of the event - name your terms @ sdgc.paypal@sbcglobal.net
Be a part of our B-tier - We are looking for Hole Sponsors, CTPs, Ring-of-Fire Sponsor, Raffle Prizes and Cash is ALWAYS King!!!
Microtel is onboard again this year as the host hotel.
2 Complimentary rooms will be up for grabs and a discounted flat rate has been agreed to.
More information can be found at www.discgolfclub.org
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25 of those discs that you aren't suppose to be able to find... came in. CFR Champion GAZELLES - weights range from 162 to 152 - Clear Pearl, Blue, Orange and Pink...
Guys, want to buy a light weight quality disc for the girlfriend? How about a 152g Pink Champion Gazelle? $20.00 shipped with CFR Certificate.
Love the way a DX Gazelle flys but want one that doesn't beat in too quick? Try a Champion 10g lighter...
I will be PMing those who got in line first with their weight and color options. Once I get thru those folks, I will post the available color/weight combos.
Thank you all who pm'd in advance.
Quote from: Jwt4412 on September 15, 2008, 05:18:09 PM
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25 of those discs that you aren't suppose to be able to find... came in. CFR Champion GAZELLES - weights range from 162 to 152 - Clear Pearl, Blue, Organge and Pink...
Guys, want to buy a light weight quality disc for the girlfriend? How about a 152g Pink Champion Gazelle? $20.00 shipped with CFR Certificate.
Love the way a DX Gazelle flys but want one that doesn't beat in too quick? Try a Champion 10g lighter...
I will be PMing those who got in line first with their weight and color options. Once I get thru those folks, I will post the available color/weight combos.
Thank you all who pm'd in advance.
McManus should be all over those. He's the only guy i've seen throwing a Gazelle in years. He might tell you he's buying for his girlfriend though.
http://www.discgolfreview.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=120306#120306
list being maintained on a thread on DGR
15 of the 25 remain...
We have one free hotel room left for the next foursome that signs up and is prepaid as a group. All four must be registered and paid.
registration at www.discgolfclub.org
2 queen beds at Microtel - the room can be used either Friday or Saturday night.
Put me down for 2 hot pink ones for da wifey! Thanks JWT
Rumor has it that Douglas Park will have some revised Temp holes just for this tourney.
Springfield, Illinois Course Photos (http://www.discgolfclub.org/SDGC/CoursePhotos.html)
The 2nd Bloomington-Normal Open is only 70 Miles from Springfied. Here is a link to the event.
http://discontinuum.org/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=3766.0
already in Both, can't wait. I live directly in the middle of both, so no hotels needed
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For the first time ever... Discraft SDGC STAMPED ELITE Z BUZZZ...
does anyone know what tees will be played at Lincoln??? Those whit/blue look VERY VERY LONG and tough. Went and checked out both courses today. Douglas very ridiculous, every hole is very capable of being a 2 from short tees.
At Douglas, is there a mando on hole #2? I went HYZER thru the woods for a 2.
Clark Wright has shot -17 down at Douglas... that being said - we have alternate pins at Douglas. You will be playing different pins at the tourney... [read it will play harder]
We will mixing up the layout at Douglas this year for the Tourney... Ziggy has been Jonesing for temp holes for 3 years... He now gets his wish.
If you are not playing Rec or Intermediate... you will be playing Lincoln from the Longs. Open from the Blues... Advanced from the Whites... unless there is not 9 people in a division - need 9 for your rating to count - if that's the case Open and Advanced would play from the same tees...
We have alternate pins for Lincoln as well - Lincoln will be even harder than you saw today - don't worry about being challenged by the course... she can keep up with anybody's game that shows up.
At leagues today we were discussing the tourney from the Blues for Advanced and Open amd Intermediate from the Whites...
Advanced, from the Reds was hard enough. +2 1st time ever seeing it.
At least I have seen the course some, I guess.
Machine shot even from the Whites today at Leagues...
To be honest, I would never tell somebody to drive more than an hour to play Douglas... but you don't "love" the game if you are not willing to drive 6 hours to play Lincoln in its Tourney Set-up... It will challenge you.
11 from the longs in the long alternate pin position - is as good as it gets...
9 from the Blues will test anybody's true golf-shot distance...
14 is as difficult risk vs. reward hole you will come by not relying on gimmicks to be memorable.
I promise you... you will remember playing Lincoln.
*evil g*
I like to think douglas is a warm-up for the lincoln factor.
History has dictated such with the douglas-lincoln debate.
There will be some modifications to douglas to provide a pucker factor as well as some out of bound lines to make you think twice.
With this in mind, lincoln will still hit you hard if you can't keep your disc in bounds! 9 holes have seen "circles" on the scorecards.
Wish I knew you were in town, would have been glad to show you a couple tricks.
Btw, #2 douglas - come oct 4. Mando left of the gap - aim for the opening down the hill that you walked up to #3.
Thanks.
Figured so about Hole #2. Too easy of a 2 thru the opening.
Machine beat me by a stroke last weekend at the Morton Pumpkin Festival, 108, 109
Need a few of the birdies I had hit chains & out stay in then if we playing the whites.
Thanks again.
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Another view...
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We are giving this Gorilla Boy Disc Sports Gorilla Primate Series bag to some lucky registered player - it might as well be you... you can sign up at www.discgolfclub.org.
Pre-register by tomorrow and get a tourney t-shirt included in your player's pack. www.discgolfclub.org
Any recommendations for a good hotel? I have never been down to Springfield or Bloomington. I am taking the wife and kids along for a long weekend. Appreciate the help.
We have a negotiated rate at the local Microtel - just follow the links at www.discgolfclub.org
This link will take you to a page that will pre-fill the info needed for either a Saturday night stay or a Friday night stay or both...
http://www.discgolfclub.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=34
Microtel is has been a sponsor of our club for the last three years...
It is a newer hotel and it is extremely clean.
We have all the major chain hotels if you are a "points" hound with a frequent traveller program like Priority Club or Marriott... etc.
Thanks for the quick response.
Tonight is the last night to still get your free t-shirt for pre-registering.
Pre-Registration will remain open after tonight... but no free t-shirt will be available...
The last Free Hotel Room at the Local Microtel remains available for a foursome that registers together... send the first email to sdgc.paypal@sbcglobal.net with the 4 registered players' names and the Hotel Room is yours...
These rooms are normally over 79.00 a night and we have a discount rate negotiated for 60.00.
You can register at www.discgolfclub.org
49 pre-registered as of today...
Hotel Room for 4 players that register together is still available...
Just send an email to sdgc.paypal@sbcglobal.net with the 4 names registered and be the first to do it and the room is yours... Thanks Microtel - it can be used for either the Friday or Saturday night...
The 2nd Room is now gone... Microtel still has rooms at a reduced rate of $60.00... instructions on how to get the reduced rate can be found at www.discgolfclub.org
Thanks to Microtel for the room and to the Springfield club for setting this up. We're looking forward to a fun weekend.
What other tourney stamp discs will you have. Got some people asking for stamped discs to bring back to them (i.e. AVIAR and ROC, Destroyer).
Thanks
I put in several deaf disc golf tourney stamps in the sdgc bins so you gotta look through 'em. There's a cpl stamped that are in the proshop @ discgolfclub.org if you wanna sift through the website.
Quote from: Jwt4412 on October 02, 2008, 12:08:30 PM
The 2nd Room is now gone... Microtel still has rooms at a reduced rate of $60.00... instructions on how to get the reduced rate can be found at www.discgolfclub.org
Did a group finally use it? Our club e-mail went out to 600+ golfers last night.
John's crew got the room...
So one room went to Southern Illinois Disc Golf Club and the other to some fine folks from DISContinuum...
As for what we have tourney stamped...
All are discs are custom stamped...
We have stacks of in
Star:
Starfires
Leopards
Valks
Destroyers
Teebirds
TeeRex X's as CFRs
Eagle-X's
Whippet-X's as CFRs
Champion
Orcs
Roadrunners
Teebirds
TLs
Destroyers as CFR
XCaliburs as CFR
Gator-Xs as CFR
TeeRex-X as CFR
Wraiths
Gazelles as CFR
Monarchs
DX
Rancho Rocs
Sidewinders
S-Series
Wizards
Z
Buzzzes
ESP
Flashes
Forces
All the above are club stamped.. we have various other discs too - including JK Aviars, Pro Pigs, KC Aviars and KC Rocs
Excellent, thanks.
There is day of registration... we begin at Douglas Park for a 9:15am players meeting... day-of registrations begin 8:00am - more info www.discgolfclub.org
Here are directions to Douglas Park...
http://www.discgolfspringfieldil.us/ToDouglas.asp
Hotel room is gone but Microtel has a reduced rate of $60.00 - just use our website to get the room www.discgolfclub.org
Ratings are posted...
http://pdga.com/tournament/tournament_results.php?TournID=7633&year=2008&includeRatings=1#Open
Thanks to all those who participated...
I don't think those 2nd round ratings look right... you might want to check the round settings to ensure that it says the divisions are marked as playing the right rounds at the proper courses and proper layouts. But other than that, thanks for getting them up so quickly!
Pitner -
You are absolutely correct.
Screenshots can be saved.... prior to correction - enjoy those 960 rated rounds while you can...
Thanks all... and Good Luck to thos playing in B/N Open in the A.M.
Before i hit the hay after 16+ hours of working, i want to post the following..
Thank you to Brad Dow and Kent Schafer for being the Tournament Directors of this event
Mad Props to Jim Trotter and Jason Thomas for dealing with Merchandise.
Even more Kudos for Kim Dow as she dealt with the majority of registration.
to Machine, Viva, Ziggy, Lefty, and Smurf - legwork indeed.
Last but not least - the Springfield Park District. This event would not have been a reality without them.
Sponsors:
Ace Hardware
All Weather Courts, Inc.
Blue Moon Saloon and Dining Co.
Convention and Visitors Bureau
Discraft
Double E Media
Dynamic Discs
Gorilla Boy Disc Golf Sports - title sponsor
Head West Sub Shop - all those lunches and more - thanks Brandon!
Innova
J. Ford's DJ Service
LSDiscs
Microtel Inn and Suites - hey guys, how were the hotel rooms?
Miles Ahead - pimpin shirts!
Natural Health Foods
Paper or Plastic Sports
Prime Discs
Randy Johnstone
Southern Illinois Disc Golf
Springfield Bag Tag
SDGC
Uncle Monkey's
Springfield Park District
CTP's were handed out to each GROUP. literally a 1 in 3 or 4 shot. 33% or 25% chance of winning a disc, whoo! Bunches of discs were unloaded.
Rec division..
Where else can you get a $10 water bottle, a $10 t-shirt if you pre-reg, a player's pack with various items, a chance to win a ctp from your group (1 in 3 shot for a disc), free drawings for prizes and participating in a side competition for only $12?
As a result for pricing it that low to have a good time, we did not offer any prizes outside of trophy disc for 1st for the Rec Division.
Congrats to Hermosillo (http://www.pdga.com/tournament/playerstats.php?PDGANum=25345) for his first PDGA PRO WIN of the year!
On a side note - Curiousity from a designer's point of view - How did the Douglas layout work out for the Pros/ADV division?
If you have any suggestions or feedback - I welcome it so there's room for improvement !!
I have received the following so far..
1) Temp Laminated teesigns to cover original # at douglas to eliminate confusion from "adding a # to figure out what hole you are on" for the REC/INT division.
2) Split course - have pre-reg at the course where play 1st rd to reduce the REC/INT travel.
How did the douglas temp design work out for you?
Was lincoln all you expected? Hard to believe every hole has been 2'd from the long tees except #9 so far.
Toss up between #3, 4, 8, 11, 14, 16, or 17 being the signature hole for lincoln..
Thanks to brett for posting his thoughts on sdgc.org
Lincoln was great. Allowing the lower divisions to play from Red tees was still very challenging. I didn't like hole 16's OB on the sidewalk. That could have gone away and I wouldn't have complained about it. I think some of the OB needed to be described better in the handbook - like hole 17 if you go in the road, 16's sidewalk, and I can't think of the other stuff. The pin placements were great though.
Douglas - I don't know what the regular 16 looks like, but you could have kept the alt 15 and 16 and kept all of the holes as well. The hole 6 was intriguing, but I'm not sure if it was a huge addition to the course or not. I liked the idea of different OB between the upper and lower divisions - not sure if they needed as many alternate tees (especially with just grass tees). The craziest thing was holes 7 - 14. If you just said that there is no hole 7, players just go from 6 to 8 and then play 8 to 15 with the temp holes numbered A and B or 16 and 16A and then go to 17 might have helped. Then you just add a note for pro/adv that they tee from 7's tee when playing hole 8... I think that would have alleviated a lot of the confusion. I understand that the tee signs were just changed before the event or something, but yeah, it was really rough on a lot of the players. I think the part that we had the most trouble was that you feel like you're playing one hole on the scorecard but the basket # doesn't match, and you just feel like you're doing something wrong.
I'd also support a larger entry fee for rec so that we could have more of a payout or change the player pack so that there could be a payout. It was weird for me to play up a division, finish in 6th out of 17, and then only 1st gets a trophy disc.
Those are my thoughts :)
Quote from: stpitner on October 10, 2008, 07:10:45 PM
Lincoln was great. Allowing the lower divisions to play from Red tees was still very challenging. I didn't like hole 16's OB on the sidewalk. That could have gone away and I wouldn't have complained about it. I think some of the OB needed to be described better in the handbook - like hole 17 if you go in the road, 16's sidewalk, and I can't think of the other stuff. The pin placements were great though.
Douglas - I don't know what the regular 16 looks like, but you could have kept the alt 15 and 16 and kept all of the holes as well. The hole 6 was intriguing, but I'm not sure if it was a huge addition to the course or not. I liked the idea of different OB between the upper and lower divisions - not sure if they needed as many alternate tees (especially with just grass tees). The craziest thing was holes 7 - 14. If you just said that there is no hole 7, players just go from 6 to 8 and then play 8 to 15 with the temp holes numbered A and B or 16 and 16A and then go to 17 might have helped. Then you just add a note for pro/adv that they tee from 7's tee when playing hole 8... I think that would have alleviated a lot of the confusion. I understand that the tee signs were just changed before the event or something, but yeah, it was really rough on a lot of the players. I think the part that we had the most trouble was that you feel like you're playing one hole on the scorecard but the basket # doesn't match, and you just feel like you're doing something wrong.
I'd also support a larger entry fee for rec so that we could have more of a payout or change the player pack so that there could be a payout. It was weird for me to play up a division, finish in 6th out of 17, and then only 1st gets a trophy disc.
Those are my thoughts :)
Scott,
The year before the routing at douglas was not good, there was a major back up. I don't remember the exact layout but I think there were problems between 16 and 18. They really needed the two alt holes this year. It was a very good move to make those changes.
I wasn't around for 2006 and 2007 CCC due to work.
What I do know.
#1 - #2 major risk of attacking each other from the tees, as evidenced by scott's throw off the tee of #2. The idea of brett's rule about having #1 spot for #2 before teeing off is a great one which can introduce #1 back into the picture since we preferred #2 to retain its original shot while moving #1 out for 2008.
#6-#7 major risk since the optimal rhbh route was to throw @ #7 teepad with a slight fade which led to the change of 6-7.
Plus on my thousands of safari routes I play all across douglas, #7 concrete to #8b pin is my fave "hole" I agree with brett about the teesign and I'll see what I can do to move it for next year to keep that hole. Talk about risk/reward.
There is also several holes that cud play into a long drive coming at the tee to which an o.b. Line slowed down those boomers from trying to nail the next teepad throwers. Granted - some lines need be marked longer for those who happen to make errant shots. As noted on temp #8. And quite possibly temp #10 (add 1, to get the original pin)
I like scott's suggestion bout numbering scorecards - *insert matrix voice* "there is no 7" =]
Appreciate that idea.
The temp holes around the tennis court also slowed down the transition instead of having backup hit #14-#17 as tom suggested and provided new elements instead of same ol same ol.
I wanted to avoid anyone "dialing in" a hole as much as possible and provide a change.
We have concrete tees for the longs in the park proposal for a couple years now and bureaucratic red tape with the p.d. Is still there. I hope that sooner than later they will wise up so we can complete douglas.
Lincoln #16 - sidewalk noted and will probably avoid using it as OB for next year.
Keep them coming - they r much appreciated and the foundation to improving our presentation.
lol, let's NOT think about what I did on hole #2 at Douglas... Nothing like a circle 6 to ruin your round! Still happy with my +2 though.
QuoteAce Hardware
All Weather Courts, Inc.
Blue Moon Saloon and Dining Co.
Convention and Visitors Bureau
Discraft
Double E Media
Dynamic Discs
Gorilla Boy Disc Golf Sports - title sponsor
Head West Sub Shop - all those lunches and more - thanks Brandon!
Innova
J. Ford's DJ Service
LSDiscs
Microtel Inn and Suites - hey guys, how were the hotel rooms?
Miles Ahead - pimpin shirts!
Natural Health Foods
Paper or Plastic Sports
Prime Discs
Randy Johnstone
Southern Illinois Disc Golf
Springfield Bag Tag
SDGC
Uncle Monkey's
Springfield Park District
Missing from that list is Peoria Disc Golf Club and Bloomington-Normal Disc Golf Club
I gave Machine and Ziggy 2 discs and $10 at Hamilton on behalf of PFC and BN DGC.
Oh snap, thanks for the reminder dana.
Yes! Must recognize the PFC and BN DG club for their donation.
We had a nifty thing out where we wud CTP for a designated club. Thought that might be something to attract other "club members" such as pfc, bn, discontinuum, grabm, quadcity, stlou, sidg, sdgc, fox valley (am I missing any clubs within 3 hrs of us?) Where their own club can donate a ctp for their members to compete on a hole of the TD's choice to draw more members to said tourney.
Quote from: ziggy on October 13, 2008, 03:13:20 PM
Oh snap, thanks for the reminder dana.
Yes! Must recognize the PFC and BN DG club for their donation.
We had a nifty thing out where we wud CTP for a designated club. Thought that might be something to attract other "club members" such as pfc, bn, discontinuum, grabm, quadcity, stlou, sidg, sdgc, fox valley (am I missing any clubs within 3 hrs of us?) Where their own club can donate a ctp for their members to compete on a hole of the TD's choice to draw more members to said tourney.
Yep. we matched 25 Club Credits within our inventory for the Discontinuum, SIDG and BNDG - so they were all $50.00 plus value CTPs for the specific clubs - we also gave the winner of the overall CTP a CFR Destroyer...