Winter Series #3: Irish You the Best of Luck - B-Tier Channahon, March 8th, 2008

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A B-Tier event is coming to Channahon! March 8th, 2008, The "Irish You the Best of Luck" tournament, also the 3rd and final event of the Illinois Winter Series, will take place at Community Park in Channahon.

MINIMUM $500 Added Cash to Pro Purse!!

Entry Fees:
Pro Open: $50
AM1 (Advanced): $35 - required for those rated > 935
AM2 (Intermediate): $30 - required for those rated > 900
AM3 (Recreational): $30 - required for those rated > 850
AM4 (Novice): $25 - rating must be < 850
Women, Junior, and Masters divisions to be opened with 3 player minimum PRE-registration.

NON-PDGA MEMBERS SUBJECT TO ADDITIONAL $10 FEE. The PDGA raised the fee for 2008.

Format: Singles, 2 rounds of 20 holes
Registration & Check-In: 8AM - 9AM, players meeting at 9:15AM

PRE-REGISTRATION will be available through pdgasignup.com, check out www.paperorplasticsports.com for more information as it becomes available.


Sponsorship Opportunities!

$10 - get your name/business name on the flyer and any other list of sponsors distributed (website, etc) - list will be sorted by dollar value, highest on top.

$20+ - get everything at the $10 level as well as your name mentioned during the player's meeting and any other perk I might come up with.

$50+ - get everything from the $20 level as well as your logo on printed materials (flyers, handbook, stuff like that).

Cash equivalent items can be given away as CTP's, but right now I'm trying to focus on helping get that pro purse higher! I would greatly appreciate receiving the sponsorship money at least a week before the tournament. The less I have to worry about the week before the event the better!

Obviously sponsorships can be greater than the amounts listed here, and I certainly wouldn't turn down stuff brought in the same day of the event. Cash can also be used and turned into Rob 'em Rewards dollars (funny money used to purchase merchandise) sponsorships on CTP's. The CTP's are used to benefit the AM divisions.

Hope to see you there!
Scott

paperorplasticsports.com

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We are currently at $200 of our $500 minimum cash added sponsorship for the Pro Purse.

List includes:
Paper or Plastic Sports
Disc Golf Alley Club
Joliet Winter Doubles League
Mike Holmquist

Your support of this tournament is greatly appreciated!  I was just out at the course today playing in the doubles league and then mapping out the course for the players handbook afterwards.  I have 3 temp holes lined out, but I might only use 2 of them.  It all depends on the course conditions if there's a big melt and flooding or not.  One of the temp holes measure out to 504'   TOUGH hole.

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Sponsorship List update - we are at $250 of our minimum goal of $500 for the pro purse!

List includes:
Paper or Plastic Sports
Disc Golf Alley Club
Fox Valley Metro Disc Golf Club
Joliet Winter Doubles League
Mike Holmquist

AM Sponsorship is currently at $200 rewards dollars that will either go towards payouts or broken down as 20 CTP's of $10 Rob 'em Rewards dollars each.  I'm not sure how many CTP's are going to come in, so we shall see.  Definite CTP's are 1 Membership to Fox Valley Metro Disc Golf Club and probably at least 5 Paper or Plastic Sports CTP's.

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I have a decision that I need to make with these custom hot stamped discs:

Discraft has a new tournament special disc for 2008 - the CryZtal Avenger SS.

Right now I'm ordering Z-Thumb Grip Surge, CryZtal Buzzz, FLX Predator, and FLX Avenger SS.

Should I replace one of those with the CryZtal Avenger SS instead?  The ones listed above are the same pricing tier as the CryZtal Avenger SS

The entire order includes these:
D-Buzzz
D-Soft Magnet
X-Soft Banger-GT
Z-Flick
ESP-Crush
ESP-Wasp
Z-Thumb Grip Surge
CryZtal Buzzz
FLX Predator
FLX Avenger SS

Would it be worth it if I swapped the FLX Avenger SS with the CryZtal Avenger SS?  I will have some stock ESP Avenger SS on the way, but no FLX Avenger SS at all if I remove it from the custom order.  I can't add anything more to the order, I can't afford it.

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Sponsorship currently at $300 of the $500 minimum goal:

Paper or Plastic Sports
Disc Golf Alley Club
Fox Valley Metro Disc Golf Club
E-Clan / Bonecrusher (once I get my notebook I'll replace this with the proper wording)
Joliet Winter Doubles League
Mike Holmquist

AM Sponsorship currently somewhere around $280 to be spread around to the divisions - mostly as CTP's right now.

[dana]

thanks to scott and everyone for raising cash to make this a b tier

scott- have you thought about getting tfr discs from innvoa?  maybe the star ontario rocs?  those seem to be great fund raisers...

thanks again, keep up the good work!

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I'm not sure if I'll be able to finance buying discs from Innova other than a regular stock order for this tournament.  I'd like to get some of those discs, but I'd have to start acquiring either sponsorships that goes towards disc money or pre-orders on some more discs.

I also am not sure if I'd be able to get the discs in time from Innova since they usually want a 4 week lead time (I'm right at that window right now).

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Attached is the hot stamp design for the tournament.  The design is still pending approval, but hopefully it will not change too terribly much from this design.

I sent in a request to see if I could change out the Z-thumb grip Surges for CryZtal Avenger SS discs.

You can feel free to pre-order discs as a way to help out with sponsorship

[OvEr HaNd AsSaSiN]

Tourney looks good, One question though what are rob em bucks, please explain thanks...

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Rob 'em Rewards is my funny money system for AM players.  If you've played at an IOS then it's the same concept as brass cash.  Rob 'em Rewards dollars can be used at any tournament where Paper or Plastic Sports (that's me) is selling.  So you can (if you want) save up your player pack money and possible winnings from 3 or 4 events and then buy something big near the end of the year.

Right now my schedule has 14-15 events that will potentially happen in 2008 where you can get stuff, and Channahon is only event #2

[OvEr HaNd AsSaSiN]

OH I see, sounds good what are the temp holes going to be, longer, tighter, Shorter, OPen?

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one temp hold I'm told is similar to what Gary Lewis does.  It's right after 18 heading the opposite direction from walking back to 1.  I measured it to be 504' straight down the chute.  The basket will be down at the bottom of the small hill near where I saw some tracks that probably some service vehicles travel.  If the service vehicles don't go down there too often (it's grass so I'm thinking probably not) the basket will be right in there.  Very tight all the way down.

The 2nd temp hole is up top of the hill, and it's hard to describe.  There's a monster tree about 30 feet in front of you forcing you to choose a left or right route that will be fairly tight either way with the basket 300'+ feet away near the path.  I'm hoping that not too many people will be having mega picnics on a March 8th Saturday, otherwise it might get in the way a little bit.

The 3rd temp hole may only be set up depending on registration and if there is any flooding (can you say probably???).  The tee is on the path, and it plays probably around 280 (I don't have my measurements with me).  It's really open, but here's the catch.  15-20' left of the basket is the path.  15-20' past the basket is the path.  If you go ON or beyond the path you're OB.  So keep it right and you're fine, go left, you're out.  Since the tee is also on the path, the path's ob will start a couple feet in front of the tee.

I just may put in that 3rd temp hole regardless just because I think it would be fun... it also make for a shorter feeling walk back to hole 1.  I just don't want to interfere too much with people that may be using the path - the weather forecast will dictate that for me.

[OvEr HaNd AsSaSiN]

sounds like the temp holes will be kool to.  I know what hole you are talking about on the first temp hole after 18.. They all should be kool.

[dana v]

i just realized that i'll be at the memorial for this one

doh!

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PRE-REGISTRATION HAS NOW GONE LIVE

Available here at www.pdgasignup.com.

Additional divisions will be opened if I can get 3 people to pre-register.  However, you can't pre-register on the site if the division is not listed.  Interesting dilemma   So if you don't see your division yet are interested in signing up, please email me or PM me.  I will instruct you on how to sign up along with the understanding that if there are not enough people to meet the minimum 3-person requirement you will be moved to another division (and that will be determined when you contact me).

I expect this event to fill, so pre-register and save yourself the hassle on the day of the tournament!  It will make both of our lives easier on March 8th!

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Sponsorship Update, thanks to our sponsors!  Officially we are at $350 of our minimum $500 goal, but once I have more than just a verbal commitment from a couple sources, we will have met our initial $500 goal!

Thanks!

Paper or Plastic Sports
Disc Golf Alley Club
Fox Valley Metro Disc Golf Club
E-Clan / Bonecrusher (once I get my notebook I'll replace this with the proper wording)
DISContinuum Disc Golf Club
Joliet Winter Doubles League
Mike Holmquist

[airspuds]

im in

if i fade because of weather
i dont mine donating the entry fee (thats what i have been even when playing )
but what will you put it towards ?

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AM's that pre-register and then are a no show that give me enough notice can forward their entry fee to another event (I would have to know by the same pre-reg cutoff time of 8pm 3/6/08), otherwise it will be converted into cash equivalent and added to the AM payouts (it would be probably be evenly distributed to all AM divisions).

The same thing would happen for pro's, but their entry fee would go to pro payout instead.

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I went ahead and opened up a store to make T-Shirts available for this event.  These shirts will probably not be available at the tournament!  I see very little of the money that comes in from the sale, but I'm going to take $1 from each item sold and create a "T-Shirt CTP" at the event.  Whoever wins the CTP wins the cash.  The only people that qualify for the T-Shirt CTP are those who bought a shirt.  You can prove it by either wearing it or show me a receipt of a shirt purchase that has your name on it when the CTP winner is announced.  I can guarantee that the CTP will be valued at a minimum of $10 cash.

There's a LARGE assortment of t-shirts available.  Check it out here:

Irish You the Best of Luck Shirts!

It should take about a week from the time you place your order until the shirt is received.

Thanks,
Scott

[pickax]

Is there a trophy only option for this tourney?