The Peoria Open -- A Brass Cash Event

[Bruce Brakel]

From another thread:

The person with the best score at The Peoria Open on the Advanced/Pro day who informs me that they are committed to attend the 2006 USDGC will receive the state coordinator exemption. They must then immediately send in their registration. If no one who attends Peoria is committed to going then the exemption will go to Rockford. If no one is committed to going from Rockford or the person who qualifies does not register, then I'll give it away to someone who is committed to going.

[Schwinn2]

What does the turn-out look like for Sunday? 

[Bruce Brakel]

Very hard to say.  I was passing out flyers at the Illinois State Championships.  A lot of players know about the tournament and say they are coming but pre-registration has been very slow.  Peoria does not have a large local player base of lower rated PDGA members because Peoria has not had many sanctioned tournaments offering lower divisions. 

[paultimore]

i'm looking for a game at mcnaughton on friday around threeish (or later).

pm me if you're up for it.

thanks!

[tree]

Pre-register...it's easy-go to the Discontinuum Store today![/glow][/color]

[tree]

Preregister today...it's easy at the Discontinuum Store!!

[Jon Brakel]

We have arranged for a port-a-potty for McNaughton for the weekend! If someone will be out there Friday during the day and wouldn't mind telling the Drop Zone guy to put the port a potty in the turn around area at the end of the park drive, then please send me an e-mail or PM and we can exchange cell phone numbers. I won't be down there until probably 5pm at the earliest on Friday but the guy is going to call me if he doesn't understand where to put it.

[Bruce Brakel]

On-line registration should be closed now.  Not to worry.  There are plenty of spots and volunteers for an overflow pool if needed. 

Scorecards are done.  I'm doing an optimistic number of scorecards.  Course notes, o.b.s, rules reminders, course maps and a map from McNaughton to Northwood are done.  I'm not doing one per player on these because you only want to kill so many trees.  Every group will get one packet and there will be some extra highway maps avaqilable.  Deaf disc golfers can request a personal packet and get one.  If Saturday players would return that stuff, we'll recycle it. 

Trophies are ready but not done.  We are using Kira's trophies for this one because I have no idea what to expect.  They are, in my opinion, cheap but cute.  Dan's opinion will vary, but Dan is not coming.  I think it is nice to have a permanent momento of a win commensurate in value to the significance of the win.  This isn't the Olympics and the copper kind of goes with the brass. 

I have to leave tonight.  Calls and e-mail should be directed to Jon. 

The Colormax is getting mixed reviews.  Marty likes it.  Erich doesn't but he was trying to avoid saying it.  He sees a lot of disc art work and has high standards.  Marty is a lot like your average disc golfer, only a little moreso, so tell me what you think this weekend or in Rockford.  Mark Ellis always tells me when my dye work is awesome or crap, so I can take it. 

He'll go through a stack of discs like this, "Crap, crap, good, good, crap, hmmmm, good, good, real nice.  O.k., how much for this one?  That's nowhere near enough!  You're giving this away?  Here's a twenty.  You should have said 30."  The stuff Mark calls crap usually sells the first day I take it out to the course.  The really good stuff often does not make it to Illinois.

[Mukey]

The really good stuff often does not make it to Illinois.

Phooey

[Bruce Brakel]

Well everything dyed made it to Illinois this time except the stuff I was doing for someone else.  It is all paint and spin stuff.  No sticker art. 

I'm down in Morton right now.  i flagged all the blue tees and made notes on holes that did not have blue tees. 

THE COURSES LOOK AWESOME.  The blue tees have all been trimmed and groomed so they are fairly easy to find.  The storm did not take anything significant down but it rocked the van a little.  The creek at Northwood has a lot of puddles, muck and ambiguous water in it right now so it is casual on 5, 17, 18, and any other hole it sneaks up on.  For casual you get relief straight back from the basket or you play it where it lies.  Because it has a mud bottom and the banks are a little treacherous in some places, I'm allowing infinite relief straight back from the basket.  I have the power to overrule the 5 meter limit and I'm doing so.  Otherwise, the rain drained really well.  The courses are green, trimmed, and really tidy. 

[Jon Brakel]

Final scores are up for Adv Pro

http://www.pdga.com/tournament/tournament_results.php?TournID=6108&year=2006&includeRatings=1#Open

[Bruce Brakel]

The Peoria Open was lightly attended but worth doing.  The Peoria club did an awesome job of getting the courses cleaned up and well groomed.  If we go down there next year, we'll do it as an IOS tournament and bring enough volunteers that I can play one day or the other. 

[Chainmeister]

Since you have two courses and had a light turnout this year you could consider running it as a one day event so you can get home earlier.

[Bruce Brakel]

We were actually thinking of putting it on the schedule earlier and promoting it into something bigger.  The problem with one-day events is we cannot play.  We had that problem anyway since my volunteers went to camp and Jon hurt his back. 

Setting up and tearing down tournament central four times for 64 players was an unusual ratio.  Twice for 200 works better for me.  I got my exercise this weekend.  Many thanks to Chris, Adrian, Adrian, and Maddisen for helping out with that. 

[paultimore]

just got back to baltimore last night.  thanks for the hospitality, folks.  the tourney was fun and the courses were both first rate.  nice meeting everyone and i look forward to coming back.  give me a shout if you find yourself in MD (www.md-discgolf.com).

i'll try to make it out again next year to redeem myself at northwoods.  i added at least 12 strokes to my round from the day prior. 

[Bruce Brakel]

I'm racing the gun to get the TD report in for ratings.  I have to get it done before I go play tomorrow, so I'm guessing it will be in the e-mail by 1:00 a.m.

Our upper day pro event value was 103%!  I must have forgot to deduct for the trophy or something.

Our upper day amateur event value was 132%. 

Sorry I did not do these earlier.  I've been low-grade sick all summer and doing trophies and other dued discs for tournaments, leagues and vendors almost continuously. 

[Bruce Brakel]

I picked up some errors in the TD report and my Advanced payouts came up to 135%.  My int/rec payouts were 154%.  They get a bigger number on the percent because they pay a lower entry fee.  Otherwise, they get the same deal: a 15 brass player pack for which we only deduct 10 and 3 brass per player in CTPs. 

Both TD reports are sent.  They should get included in the ratings update. 

Oh, I noticed some other mistakes.  Becky, I overpaid you 10 brass.  I'll get it in Aurora.  And I put out one too many CTPs for Advanced so Mike Clark, I'll need that 12 brass back. 

Ha, ha, just kidding.