2005 ILLINOIS OPEN SERIES

[Jon Brakel]

How long should it take an average TD to report the the PDGA and have it up on the website? I've had it take a few weeks to almost 3/4 of a year.

My goal for this tournament is to have Pro/Adv done by Wednesday and Ams done by Friday. I'll post here once they are up.

Once I get my personal laptop repaired I'm hoping to improve the turn around by putting in the players right off the score port at the course at the end of the day. I'd like to see the PDGA improve the TD report by having data auto-fill once you put in the player's PDGA number.

Just for random information...last year it took me about 3 hours per TD report to type in all the info that they want and double check it for mistakes and typos. A split day, like the IOS requires a TD report for each day. I'm slowly getting better at doing the reports though and probably have it down to 2 hours now.

[Brian]

I'm not saying that these guys are slow, I was just wondering what the average is for other tournaments.  

[Bruce Brakel]

Two weeks.  A minute sooner and he's trying to make the rest of us look bad.  A minute later and he is a slacker.

[Bruce Brakel]

I'm fine with Jon making everyone else look bad!

[D]

wait.. what? lol

you guys are always ze fastest at tourney results, quality

[Dan Michler]

well maybe not the fastest.  8 tournaments already have their results in from last weekend on the pdga tour page.

[Bruce Brakel]

The way to do it fast is to have a volunteer whose only job is to fill out the scoring part of the TD report.  They load the data onto the template at the event.  Then you can post scores the moment you are on-line.  

If someone wanted to volunteer to do this, we would accept their help and feed them a burger at the end of the day.  

[CEValkyrie]

Pictures from the Open Final 4 Safari
*Photos taken by Mark Brunner*

http://www.uwm.edu/~jbrunner/Discgolf/IOS/pics/

[DougEDawg]

Regarding IOS #2, what tees are we throwing from?  Will it be all white tees?

[CEValkyrie]

Regarding IOS #2, what tees are we throwing from?  Will it be all white tees?

They have not been determined yet.

[Bruce Brakel]

I'd like to see the lower players on middle tees and the upper players on the long tees, if the long tees are generally playable.  

Do we have a 1-page series flyer anywhere handy?  If not could we put it somewhere handy?  Maybe on the same page where we have the link to pre-reg?

[damonshort]

I'd like to see the lower players on middle tees and the upper players on the long tees, if the long tees are generally playable.  

If there's any rain there between now and Memorial Day weekend you can probably count on anything other than cement tees being barely playable at best.

I'm guessing the middle tees are cement but won't know until I get out there. Not all the holes had cement tees to begin with and I think that's still the case.

[Jon Brakel]

I agree with Damon. We should keep everyone on the cement tees.

[Bruce Brakel]

From the other thread:

They have the one main tee pad. That is the white. Then, they have a red tee in front of that, and a blue tee behind the white. The blue and red are each designated by two 6 inch circles designating each tee. So each whole has 3 different tees now.

Get out there and take a look.  I was thinking that if had been redesigned the new long tees might be unplayed.

I'll defer to whatever Jon wants for lower and Brett wants for upper.  I just want to be popular!  

[Clonefan94]

The white tees are cement. Although, there were 2 holes that did not have a cement tee pad, just dirt. When I was out there (1 week ago today) It didn't look like there was any work going on to hurridly remedy the situation either. From what I have heard and what it looks like they moved the old tee pads to the new areas. The did a real nice job putting them in place if that is the case. They look like they were meant to be there. The red and blue tees are just grass. When I was out there they looked very unused. So they were still grass not a dirt spot.

[Guest_Tree]

Congrats to everyone. I was really fried Fri night and when I saw the forecast (rain all day) I just didn't want to deal with it.    guess it turned out not to rain at all on Sat. Had a gig on Sunday.

Just a little snow during round one, Damon  

[damonshort]

Although, there were 2 holes that did not have a cement tee pad, just dirt.

before the redesign I remember there were 4 or 5 holes w/ no cement, so there might be some new ones, or maybe they dug up a couple of old ones that weren't 'going anywhere' anymore (I can think of at least two). Whatever, it'll all be revealed eventually.

[Jon Brakel]

well maybe not the fastest.  8 tournaments already have their results in from last weekend on the pdga tour page.

One thing that I think I should point out is that the TD does not need to submit the completed TD report in order to get results on line. Probably most of those 8 tournaments already up have not submitted their TD report. Once I get my personal laptop back from repair I should be able to get results online the same day as the tournament assuming that I have online access that day.

Expect results for IOS #1 to be posted tonight.

[damonshort]

Whatever, it'll all be revealed eventually.

But not by me tonight. Got hammered w/ a chest cold.

[Dan Michler]

well maybe not the fastest.  8 tournaments already have their results in from last weekend on the pdga tour page.

One thing that I think I should point out is that the TD does not need to submit the completed TD report in order to get results on line. Probably most of those 8 tournaments already up have not submitted their TD report. Once I get my personal laptop back from repair I should be able to get results online the same day as the tournament assuming that I have online access that day.

Expect results for IOS #1 to be posted tonight.

sweet.