Inaugural Bloomington-Normal Open (C-Tier)

[CEValkyrie]

Inaugural Bloomington-Normal Open
Sunday October 7th, 2007
PDGA C-Tier

Rd 1-> Bloomington, IL. -> PJ Irvin Park
Rd 2-> Normal, IL. -> Maxwell Park

More info & flyer to come soon!

SEE THE FLYER THAT IS ATTACHED. You must register & have a user name to view it.

[skipache]

sounds interesting, whose merching?

[CEValkyrie]

sounds interesting, whose merching?

I will be the TD of the event.

If you want a good weekend of Central Illinois disc golf play Springfield  on Saturday and Bloomington-Normal on Sunday. 4 Courses in 2 days. Can't be that.

[Mukey]

Sounds like a sweet weekend of disc golf. If Brett's running it you know it'll be a quality event. Hopefully we get the same weather we had last year for the Springfield-Homie weekend. I've jsut got to stay away from Avanti's!!   

[pickax]

How can one go to Bloomington w/o stopping at Avanti's?

[CEValkyrie]

How can one go to Bloomington w/o stopping at Avanti's?

It's impossible for me  .

[Chainmeister]

I might be up for one or both of these.  Anybody interested in ride/room share?

[airspuds]

stay away from steak and shake
the cole slaw i had there caused some real bad digestion issues on a trip to st louis

[CEValkyrie]

Just to let everyone know Bloomington-Normal is very excited to have a PDGA event coming to town. Normal Park District contacted me last winter.  I was trying to run this tournament in the spring but there were limited opitons & my schedule was booked. It took me a while to finalize details in order to get things rolling this fall.

Within 24 hours of finalizing details i've been contacted by a business in BN & the BN Area Convention & Visitors Bureau. What this will lead to I don't know. Disc Golfers are wanted in B-N. I hope many of you can join us.

[ChrisPUTTS]

Branches, yes. Bushes, yes. Water, yes.  Chains, (sigh) no...... how true, how true.....

I'd like to go down and check this out...

[Dan Michler]

Branches, yes. Bushes, yes. Water, yes.  Chains, (sigh) no...... how true, how true.....

I'd like to go down and check this out...

i don't understand your post at all, but i hope to see you there...

[damonshort]

I might be up for one or both of these.  Anybody interested in ride/room share?

...hmmm.....

[Jorr16]

Brett,
I am currently down here in Bloomington/Normal going to grad school. If you need any help please let me know. I kind of have an in with one of the local dealers, Alamo II. They carry one of the largest stocks of Innova that I have seen so I might be able to get them to sponser at least something. I will let you know as soon as I talk to the boss there. If there is anything else that you would need then let me know. I am sure me or Dana would be able to do anything that you asked of us.  We are starting to get a larger turnout at our local league so I am sure I could get some ideas and stuff from there. Also we might be able to come up with some temp holes at Maxwell if we can get some extra baskets. Not sure if it was something you thought of but there is alot of room out there to make at least a few holes. Good to see that the parks department is in on it too. If you want just send me an Email and we get some ideas together. I am very excited that this is happening and I am sure a lot of people around here will be in on it too!
Thanks!!
Jeremy Orr

[CEValkyrie]

Jeremy,


    I appreciate the help. The main thing right now is getting flyers out. I'll have the flyers done by Monday. If you guys can get them up at both courses and stores that sell discs that would be awesome. I have thought about 2 temp holes at Maxwell but not sure if it's going to happen or not. The store mgr from the Alamo 2 e-mailed me and I have not heard back from hit yet. Some good publicity might help.

Thanks for the help!

[DANA V]

temp holes at maxwell= down the tunnel along the creek after hole 10 and before 11 and then the next hole in the open coming back to play 11.


yes?

[hj70ft]

Brett,

I also wanted to jump in with a helping hand where I can. We've met once or twice through Rob Strasser at tourneys. I play along with Jeremy and Dana in town. I also run admin on our www.bndisc.com site. I'm in the process of posting the tourney details and links that are available. We've been getting 200 hits per day on our site so the traffic will be good for promoting the event. Certainly feel free to call on us in town to help out or pound the pavement. We are all interesting in making the event a success. Several of us play in the Peoria league also so we can talk it up while playing there as well.

Thanks for getting this rolling and putting the work into a tourney.

Ben Douglas
admin@bndisc.com



Dana I like where you're head is at on possible temp holes at Maxwell. That tunnel has been begging for a throw of some kind for a long time.

[CEValkyrie]

2 temps holes at Maxwell it is. We'll do 18 at PJ Irvin & 20 at Maxwell.

If you could add the tournament information to your website it would be much appreciated. I'll have a flyer posted by Monday.

Another issue  is moving the pins. I'll have a list of locations in the next few weeks. I would appreciate it if someone from B-N could coordinate getting the pins moved.

[CEValkyrie]

Attached is the flyer. If someone would like to spice up the flyer i'd appreciate it. That is not my area of expertise. I have posted the information below as well.

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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
PDGA Sanctioned C-Tier

SCHEDULE
Registration: 8:00am to 9:00am @ PJ Irvin Park
Player meeting: 9:15am @ PJ Irvin Park
Round 1 Tee off: PJ Irvin Park – Bloomington, IL 9:45am
Round 2 Tee off: Maxwell Park – Normal, IL TBA
Awards @ Maxwell Park-> ASAP after 2nd Round

ENTRY FEES
DIVISION...............................FEE
All Pro Divisions...................$35
All Amateur Divisions...........$25
All Junior Divisions...............$15
Non PDGA Members...........Add $5.00 to fee above

All Amateurs will get a $15.00 voucher as a player pack.
$5.00 from entry fee will cover tournament expenses.
Standard PDGA Payout charts will be used.
Juniors will be playing trophy only.
Trophies will be simplistic and only offered for large divisions.

Pre-Register
Make checks payable to Brett Comincioli
Send to: Brett Comincioli, 1018 Lotus Dr. Round Lake Beach, IL 60073

Both courses will be used simultaneously if needed.
*Schedule is subject to change*


Tournament Director->Brett Comincioli: -- (847) 858-4368
e-mail-> president@discontinuum.org
Check the message board located at www.discontinuum.org for more information.

[hj70ft]

I'll talk with Dan Nagle and Rob Strasser regarding pin settings when you have them. Dan has keys for Maxwell and Rob has keys for PJ and it shouldn't be an issue to move the pins prior to the tourney. They move fairly often for league so it shouldn't be a problem.

I've posted information and links on bndisc.com.

I'll see about bringing paper copies to post at both courses in town also. I'll talk with Dustin Fee who runs the Peoria league and see about getting copies posted at their many courses also.

[Jwt4412]

We are in the process of finalizing the room rate at the local Microtel...  So if folks wanted to come down from Chicagoland for the Saturday event in Springfield for rounds at Douglas Park and a newly revamped Lincoln Park they would only be a 50 minute ride to to Maxwell for the Sunday rounds...

More info to follow...