Fivetone.com Presents IOS #2 @ Lombard, IL--05/19&20/07

[stpitner]

I'm surprised that there aren't more people getting excited about THIS WEEKEND   Lombard is one of the best stops for the IOS, and I'm really looking forward to it!  I shot a new personal best when I was out there last week, and I'm hoping that I can keep that up when it comes to this weekend and not blow up like I did at kenosha!

[Bruce Brakel]

$500 [estimated] ace pool for IOS #2.  Really I'm just guessing here.  Jon, how much rolled over from IOS #1?  $280?  If it is $280 we'll have close to $500 on Saturday. 

JON!?

[Jon Brakel]

$500 [estimated] ace pool for IOS #2.  Really I'm just guessing here.  Jon, how much rolled over from IOS #1?  $280?  If it is $280 we'll have close to $500 on Saturday. 

JON!?

BRUCE!? DO YOU REMEMBER?! I WASN'T THERE?! Becky says it's $314.

[Bruce Brakel]

BECKY WENT HOME WITH THE BOX, THE ENVELOPE AND THE NOTES!  I HOPE YOU HAVE THEM.

[tree]

BECKY WENT HOME WITH THE BOX, THE ENVELOPE AND THE NOTES!  I HOPE YOU HAVE THEM.

I went into the cash box to give Jon the total in/on the Ace Pool envelope. Yes, we're starting wth $314 and I would expect at $3 each, we"ll be at $500 before tee off on Saturday!!

[CEValkyrie]

I'm surprised that there aren't more people getting excited about THIS WEEKEND   Lombard is one of the best stops for the IOS, and I'm really looking forward to it!  I shot a new personal best when I was out there last week, and I'm hoping that I can keep that up when it comes to this weekend and not blow up like I did at kenosha!

Weather does look good for this weekend. I have 10 players to add to the tour page tonight. By noon on Friday i'm sure there will be a decent number of players preregistered.

[Jon Brakel]

I'm getting a lot of calls and e-mails also so I think we'll have quite a few people doing day-of registration.

[pickax]

Lombard Doubles tonight at 6:00pm. Come get some practice for this weekend.

[Bruce Brakel]

A lot of day-of registration just means that the payouts get bigger and there is a little bit to set aside for overalls. 

I picked up the Discraft today.  That turned out to be an ordeal.  The route to Discraft from here is a 25 mile drive through residential parts of our suburban lake district with very few gas stations.  I was going to get gas in Union Lake or Walled Lake but then a road construction detour sent us out around Cedar Lake where there are no gas stations.  So two miles short of Discraft we ran out of gas and had to walk .6 miles to a gas station and .6 back.  In the rain.  Uphill, both ways.   

I really like the way the custom stamps turned out for IOS 2 & 3.  I might post the artwork later, when I'm at that computer.  The fine details came out pretty good on the plate but some of the areas filled.  That's o.k.  It filled symetrically and evenly, as if it was supposed to be that way. 

[Bruce Brakel]

So I figured out my Discraft pricing tonight.  After pricing the FLX, ESP, and Z so low I cannot mention it in public, I still had enough left over to have 93 more Throw Discraft/DGA Player Packs.  That is the 20 Brass optional player pack you cannot spend on Innova, but I'll let you spend it on Discraft and an IOS towel or Discraft and a Birdie Bag. 

Remind me to do the Throw Discraft CTP on hole 1 each day. 

I'll get the hotstamp art posted when I get home.

[Bruce Brakel]

This is the artwork they made the IOS 2 hotstamp from. 

[Bruce Brakel]

This is the artwork they made the IOS 3 hotstamp from.  I'll have IOS 3 stamped discs at IOS 2.

[Bruce Brakel]

This is what I'm thinking about for Rockford.  We won't have this on any discs until Crystal Lake.

[Jon Brakel]

Those pics are too big for the frame Bruce. It's hard to get a good idea what they look like.

[pickax]

Right click and do a view image. The stamps look pretty cool.

[Bruce Brakel]

I sized those pics to 4 inches by 4 inches before posting them.  I don't know why the message board software is blowing them up to 16 X 16.

[can't putt]

Very cool!

[Chainmeister]

They look  cool.  I especially like the Rockford one.  It looks a little like the one done for the Forest City Frenzy two years ago.  But wouldn't you want the word "Rockford" or the words "Anna Page" in there?

[Jon Brakel]

I sized those pics to 4 inches by 4 inches before posting them.  I don't know why the message board software is blowing them up to 16 X 16.

Scanning isn't about the inches it's all about the pixels and those babies are 1244x1244 pixels. The message board isn't "blowing" them up, you did.

[Bruce Brakel]

They look  cool.  I especially like the Rockford one.  It looks a little like the one done for the Forest City Frenzy two years ago.  But wouldn't you want the word "Rockford" or the words "Anna Page" in there?

The purpose of the hotstamp is to get the really good pricing in a way that does not decrease the value of the disc.  Occasionally, the hotstamp increases the value of the disc, but you never know a winner from a loser until its too late.  If I was selling discs casually at Anna Page Park, those words would be a plus.  Since I sell discs casually Cass Benton and Baycourt, it is just information that distracts from the sale!     If you buy the disc, make a note where you bought it!