IOS #2 @ Lombard, IL--05/31 & 06/01 2008

[CEValkyrie]

IOS #2 @ Lombard, IL--05/31 & 06/01 2008

[Bruce Brakel]

With June 1 marking the coming of summer I was looking for sunny ideas for the Lombard IOS.  How about that Mayan sun god thing, I thought?  I think it is actually Aztec. 

On a related note, I'm always looking for good hotstamp art.  As you may have noticed, I don't require that my disc art actually be related to disc golf!     I'd really like to come up with an Escher kind of idea.  Kelsey's art teacher teaches what Escher does.  I need to talk to her. 

[Mukey]

I like the sun god idea. I was gonna have Dr. Dye do a few "Eye of Ra" discs for me, but I almost always lose custom dyed discs.   

Was gonna say I'll be there to help out, but not sure about the date of my move.

[Bruce Brakel]

Is it your brother who is the big DGA fan?  IOS 2 will be the DGA leg of our insectoid six legged IO Series.  We won't have any additional Throw Discraft Player Packs.  You'll just have to wait for the Zone and the Zoom and the ESP Venom.  We will have Throw DGA Player Packs and Throw Innova Player Packs. 

I'll have Blowflies again, and Rogues.  I'll have the new Shockwave which is a stable mid-range, a small bead Wasp, essentially.  I'll also have reefs and Tsunamis.  The Reef is a putter.  The Tsunami is an overstable driver.  Last year we sold out of Blowflies and Rogues before the end of the season, so I'll order more than last year.  I'll have the long awaited DGA hats.  I'm getting the traditional DGA hat unless someone really likes the mud hat. 

I'll also have a DGA full weight galvanized portable basket, a Mach III or a Mach V.  If it is a V, Tom McManus called dibs on it.  If it is a III, it is available for brass.  DGA does not have a wholesale deal on baskets.  Everyone pays retail.  But I can sell this one for retail for brass.  Whatever they list it as on the website, that's the price. 

Looking ahead to IOS III, by then I'll have a Chainstar. 

[Chainmeister]

With June 1 marking the coming of summer I was looking for sunny ideas for the Lombard IOS.  How about that Mayan sun god thing, I thought?  I think it is actually Aztec. 

On a related note, I'm always looking for good hotstamp art.  As you may have noticed, I don't require that my disc art actually be related to disc golf!     I'd really like to come up with an Escher kind of idea.  Kelsey's art teacher teaches what Escher does.  I need to talk to her. 

I kind of like the Escher idea as it really does relate to disc golf, at least the way I play it.  You see the Tee box. You see my lie and you ask yourself how did said plastic circle get from point A to Point B. It seems impossible unless you are throwing in Escher's or Barish's world.

[Mukey]

Is it your brother who is the big DGA fan?  IOS 2 will be the DGA leg of our insectoid six legged IO Series.  We won't have any additional Throw Discraft Player Packs.  You'll just have to wait for the Zone and the Zoom and the ESP Venom.  We will have Throw DGA Player Packs and Throw Innova Player Packs. 

Sure is Bruce. Unfortunate thing is he's also not into tournament play, although he is pretty good. Maybe by then I can convince him to come out. Although he has a point that brother vs. brother bragging rights are worth their weight in gold. (he usually gets the better of me)

[Bruce Brakel]

The DGA dude told me the sun god wouldn't hotstamp well.  The elements would run together -- the white areas would fill.  So now i'm working on the Escher idea.  I laid out the idea and he was fine with it.  Interlocking waterfowl. 

[tacimala]

What about some sort of "minimalist" type stamp? Something like last year's 888, cannon or little wing USDGC rocs. I've always liked the discs that have a small stamp covering only a small portion of the discs towards the outer edge instead of the center.

[Bruce Brakel]

Given the way DGA displays its product information, something minimalist and off-center like that just does not work.  They have their product information on the disc like a donut and all you're left with is the center of the disc. 

I'd like to do a thumbprint sized IOS logo like Luna's small moon logo or Pluister's small flying pig.  On DGA that's not going to work so well. 

[CEValkyrie]

What about some sort of "minimalist" type stamp? Something like last year's 888, cannon or little wing USDGC rocs. I've always liked the discs that have a small stamp covering only a small portion of the discs towards the outer edge instead of the center.

Check out the CFR Destroyer & CFR TeeRex X for Sinnissippi. They will be very small.

[acedeucelefty]

This is also what Taylor is referring to

[Bruce Brakel]

this is the Escher I've worked into a hot stamp.  I did this for Lombard because it always has geese.

[Mukey]

this is the Escher I've worked into a hot stamp.  I did this for Lombard because it always has geese.

And therefore goose poop, but what can ya do?

I've always liked Escher art, good disc artwork (original or otherwise  ) as usual Bruce

[Jon Brakel]

this is the Escher I've worked into a hot stamp.  I did this for Lombard because it always has geese.

That's cool. I get that the beaks are stick figures playing disc golf but what are the feather lines? Parking lot stripes? Swing sets?

Also, what's with the one dude near the bottom who is decapitated?

[stpitner]

lol, one of the players on the right has an arm attached to their head

tessellations, I remember having to make our own back in elementary school...

[mirth]

PREREGISTRATION FOR IOS2 IS ONLINE!
http://store.discontinuum.org/product_info.php?cPath=24&products_id=98

[airspuds]

my check is in the mail

just got blocked on
5-10 and  5-17

i need to start putting

[SERG]

FYI: Dates are incorrect on prereg page: May 30/June 1

[mirth]

Serg - that better?

[Bruce Brakel]

I think Mirth mentioned at Kenosha that on-line pre-reg has to close a couple days earlier than normal for this one.  You can still register at the tournament if on-line closes before you get in.  If you like to do the on-line thing, just do it today.  You don't need a weather forecast for May 31/June 1.  Partly cloudy, highs in the upper 70s, lower 80s, afternoon thunder showers.  That's a pretty predictable time of the year for weather.