Bowling Green Ams 2008

[RF2000]

All the above stories are fabrications.

-Factor

[Dan Michler]

the last thing Huspen would ever do in a trillion years is post that 1 sentence.  nice try though!

[discpro99]

had a pretty good time. me and Jordon both cashed. i took last cash spot and he finshed around 50th or so. he got me by 4 strokes. I had a rough weekend out there, had a hard time keeping things in bounds.

[Guess Who?]

I had to play with the factor before and the only thing that I was able to do was Factor out the R Factor.  I gave him a taste of his own.  The whole card was loving it.

[discpro99]

scores are up

[skipache]

good for josh tompson, on the first win

[Bruce Brakel]

scores are up

Not quite.  They lost G-pool Intermediate, about 20 players.  I hope they did payouts with us lost and forgotten.  Having to pay us after they calculated payouts based on us not existing would provide some small measure of economic justice. 

Everything you might read on pdga.com and discgolfersr.us about how they handled the leaderboards with their heads up their butts is true.  700 players need to see the leaderboards Saturday night to find out what pool they are in.  So they put the leaderboards on a 10 foot by 10 foot porch, enclosed by a fence, accessible only by one normal 30 inch wide door with no lights at about 9 p.m. Saturday night in complete darkness. 

I finished my Sunday round around 3:00.  I stayed at the course to help the TD check cards and do the G-pool leaderboard.  I left at 3:30 when all the cards were in and checked and most were on the board and they did not need me anymore.  I went to the E-pool course to find out how far back i was by asking where their leaders were.  I had won G-pool.  Then I went to tournament central and started cooking dinner.  Around 4:30 I see the G-pool leaderboard show up and go into a locked room.  At 7:30 no leaderboards have emerged from the locked room yet.  None of the volunteers who are not in the locked room can tell us anything. 

That whole process was just completely unplanned, uncoordinated, undirected and inexcusable. 

Innova had this deal where you could fill out a form and collect your payout from them in a few days.  After four hours of waiting for the leaderboards we filled out our forms and left. 

Three days later I still don't have a score on the leaderboard. 

[hj70ft]

Bruce has some great points about this scoring being a bit of a cluster all around. I had the long drive as well as anyone else and didn't really know what the deal was with later payouts from Innova so I stuck around for my cash out.

After finding the cash out board having me listed at 40th I got my receipt, snagged a couple of TeeBirds and took off.

Scores go up on PDGA.com and they say I'm tied for 41st instead of 40th. Doesn't really matter, but if you pay one slot and post another, that's an issue. I guess if given a choice on when scores go up I'd prefer later and right than "sooner" and wrong or in Bruce's case missing all together.

[Bruce Brakel]

well, what we learned a long time ago is if you do the leaderboards promptly and in the open, the players will point out your mistakes.  When we were doing Final Safari Fours, we did not hide the leaderboards and wait for the pros to come in before pulling them out of a locked trailer.  We did them right away and let Krupicka spot all the mistakes!     Secret leaderboards are a big mistake a lot of TDs make.