2008 River Cities Rumble - Quad Cities

[damonshort]

Gentlemen: After significant discussion, it was decided by those in attendance at
last night's meeting of the Quad City Disc Golf Club, to postpone the date of the
River Cities Rumble until later in the year.

A very wise decision. As much as everyone wants to play, scheduling any kind of sanctioned event, let alone an A-tier, in this part of the country this early in the year, just isn't a really practical idea.

Although I'm still leaning towards playing Channahon next week. 

[stpitner]

Gentlemen: After significant discussion, it was decided by those in attendance at
last night's meeting of the Quad City Disc Golf Club, to postpone the date of the
River Cities Rumble until later in the year.

A very wise decision. As much as everyone wants to play, scheduling any kind of sanctioned event, let alone an A-tier, in this part of the country this early in the year, just isn't a really practical idea.

Although I'm still leaning towards playing Channahon next week. 

hehe, hence why it's part of the 2008 Illinois WINTER Series   You guys at least get to warm up some by playing.  It gets chilly at the merch tables!  Might have to try to get the wind screens to work on the E-Z Up at this one!

[Fox Metro Discer]

What about the pavilion in between 18 and 1?

[stpitner]

According to John Resch over at the iowadg forums - they are currently looking at running this event a single day, B-Tier event on October 12th.  The intentions I believe are to return it to A-Tier status for 2009.

[CEValkyrie]

That is disappointing. Same day as the HOMIE. I'll be heading there.

[discpro99]

That is disappointing. Same day as the HOMIE. I'll be heading there.

i second that motion. why ruin such a great event and cram it all into one day? terrible idea.

[skipache]

I believe that based on my expieriences that the HOMIE is probably the best/my favorite of all non-majors tournaments, i will begoing there especially with the 50+ pros that came out last year

[stpitner]

it's probably the only day that they could get a pavilion in order to use West Lake.

[CEValkyrie]

The Homie is a very good event and it's not far at all. I like the courses. The free lunch and dinner makes it great.

As far as the RCR is concerned. If I were running that event i'd pay the park fee for a pavillion even if they are all rented. If that's the course fee so be it. I'd just not use a pavillion.

[Bruce Brakel]

The Homie is one of the best one-day tournaments within a reasonable drive of Chicago or Detroit.  Other than the mistake of setting up the leaderboard in secret and keeping scores secret until it is too late to correct the mistakes, and all the mess that makes, they do a really good job.  Every Homie I've played I've been victimized by secret leaderboard mistakes that ultimately got fixed o.k.-ish.  The Homie is where I learned how important it is to keep the leaderboard out where everyone can see it while scoring is in progress so that the players can catch the mistakes.  Anyway, it is such a good tournament, in spite of that, I keep coming back every year I possibly can. 

I once cancelled a tournament I was supposed to run when the Homie fell on my date.  Then I went and played the Homie!   

[Chainmeister]

The Homie is one of the best one-day tournaments within a reasonable drive of Chicago or Detroit.  Other than the mistake of setting up the leaderboard in secret and keeping scores secret until it is too late to correct the mistakes, and all the mess that makes, they do a really good job.  Every Homie I've played I've been victimized by secret leaderboard mistakes that ultimately got fixed o.k.-ish.  The Homie is where I learned how important it is to keep the leaderboard out where everyone can see it while scoring is in progress so that the players can catch the mistakes.  Anyway, it is such a good tournament, in spite of that, I keep coming back every year I possibly can. 

I once cancelled a tournament I was supposed to run when the Homie fell on my date.  Then I went and played the Homie!   

Bruce's forehand compliment is pretty good but he has a wicked snap on his backhand...

[stpitner]

oh I agree, I enjoyed playing the Homie in 2006.  I don't know the stipulation with the pavilion rental, that's the Quad Cities DGC job to figure out.  They probably won't have multiple vendors out there either, so I'll just have to wait for RCR 2009

[discglfr]

The 2007 Greater Milwaukee Open (B-tier) will be a USADGC qualifier this year!!!

I apologize that all of the info isn't posted just yet for the event but it will be a split day format on the weekend of May 17/18.  I'm just not sure which divisions are playing which days just yet.

Look for all the details to be posted by the end of this upcoming week.

Ter

Can anyone tell me if there is going to be another tournament in the area that will be a qualifier for the 2008 United States Amateur Disc Golf Championship?

[MDR_3000]

The Homie is a very good event and it's not far at all. I like the courses. The free lunch and dinner makes it great.

As far as the RCR is concerned. If I were running that event i'd pay the park fee for a pavilion even if they are all rented. If that's the course fee so be it. I'd just not use a pavillion.

I agree Homie's is awesome...but why isn't it on the PDGA calendar yet?  That's what the club went by to see if there were any conflicting tournaments that day.

The park won't let us run any tournament without getting a pavillion.  It was explained like this; there's limited parking at West Lake, and if someone rents a pavilion then that usually means there will be a lot of cars there already.  Then you bring a tournament in without getting a pavilion then you'll have people parking all on the grass and who knows where...and they aren't having that.  And the pavilions are rented pretty close to a year in advance and the October date was the earliest available. 

We are working with the parks and the pdga to get a better date for next year.

[CEValkyrie]

The Homie is a very good event and it's not far at all. I like the courses. The free lunch and dinner makes it great.

As far as the RCR is concerned. If I were running that event i'd pay the park fee for a pavilion even if they are all rented. If that's the course fee so be it. I'd just not use a pavillion.

I agree Homie's is awesome...but why isn't it on the PDGA calendar yet?  That's what the club went by to see if there were any conflicting tournaments that day.

Mike,
       Sorry it took me so long to post a response. Been on the road since Thursday. Brain is notorius for getting his dates added to PDGA last minute. I'm sure the Homie won't appread on pdga.com until late summer.

[danavici]

PDGA is slacking getting tourdates up- I sent (and paid) GPO info in a LONG time ago and it is still not up. 

[MDR_3000]

I noticed that too..they were slacking in moving our date from March this year.

[skipache]

he typically puts it up that late because well thats the date, people plan around the event
also  www.redrocdiscgolfclub.com , left column

[Dan Michler]

he typically puts it up that late because well thats the date, people plan around the event
also  www.redrocdiscgolfclub.com , left column

that is just a retarded statement.  i'm pretty sure he puts it up late due to indifference.

[MDR_3000]

he typically puts it up that late because well thats the date, people plan around the event
also  www.redrocdiscgolfclub.com , left column

How is a club in Iowa supposed to know about redrocdiscgolfclub.com?