SDGC Presents: The 10 x GBDS CC CHALLENGE 10.04.08

[El Mexicano]

Thanks for the quick response.

[Jwt4412]

Tonight is the last night to still get your free t-shirt for pre-registering.

Pre-Registration will remain open after tonight... but no free t-shirt will be available...

The last Free Hotel Room at the Local Microtel remains available for a foursome that registers together... send the first email to sdgc.paypal@sbcglobal.net with the 4 registered players' names and the Hotel Room is yours...

These rooms are normally over 79.00 a night and we have a discount rate negotiated for 60.00.

You can register at www.discgolfclub.org

[Jwt4412]

49 pre-registered as of today...

Hotel Room for 4 players that register together is still available...

Just send an email to sdgc.paypal@sbcglobal.net with the 4 names registered and be the first to do it and the room is yours...  Thanks Microtel - it can be used for either the Friday or Saturday night...

[Jwt4412]

The 2nd Room is now gone...  Microtel still has rooms at a reduced rate of $60.00... instructions on how to get the reduced rate can be found at www.discgolfclub.org

[jack]

Thanks to Microtel for the room and to the Springfield club for setting this up. We're looking forward to a fun weekend.

[El Mexicano]

What other tourney stamp discs will you have. Got some people asking for stamped discs to bring back to them (i.e. AVIAR and ROC, Destroyer).

Thanks

[ziggy]

I put in several deaf disc golf tourney stamps in the sdgc bins so you gotta look through 'em. There's a cpl stamped that are in the proshop @ discgolfclub.org if you wanna sift through the website.

[CEValkyrie]

The 2nd Room is now gone...  Microtel still has rooms at a reduced rate of $60.00... instructions on how to get the reduced rate can be found at www.discgolfclub.org

Did a group finally use it? Our club e-mail went out to 600+ golfers last night.

[Jwt4412]

John's crew got the room... 

So one room went to Southern Illinois Disc Golf Club and the other to some fine folks from DISContinuum...

As for what we have tourney stamped...

All are discs are custom stamped...

We have stacks of in

Star:

Starfires
Leopards
Valks
Destroyers
Teebirds
TeeRex X's as CFRs
Eagle-X's
Whippet-X's as CFRs

Champion

Orcs
Roadrunners
Teebirds
TLs
Destroyers as CFR
XCaliburs as CFR
Gator-Xs as CFR
TeeRex-X as CFR
Wraiths
Gazelles as CFR
Monarchs

DX

Rancho Rocs
Sidewinders

S-Series

Wizards

Z

Buzzzes

ESP

Flashes
Forces

All the above are club stamped.. we have various other discs too - including JK Aviars, Pro Pigs, KC Aviars and KC Rocs

[El Mexicano]

Excellent, thanks.

[Jwt4412]

There is day of registration... we begin at Douglas Park for a 9:15am players meeting... day-of registrations begin 8:00am - more info www.discgolfclub.org

Here are directions to Douglas Park...

http://www.discgolfspringfieldil.us/ToDouglas.asp

Hotel room is gone but Microtel has a reduced rate of $60.00 - just use our website to get the room www.discgolfclub.org

[Jwt4412]

Ratings are posted...

http://pdga.com/tournament/tournament_results.php?TournID=7633&year=2008&includeRatings=1#Open


Thanks to all those who participated...

[stpitner]

I don't think those 2nd round ratings look right...  you might want to check the round settings to ensure that it says the divisions are marked as playing the right rounds at the proper courses and proper layouts.  But other than that, thanks for getting them up so quickly!

[ziggy]

Pitner -

You are absolutely correct.

[Jwt4412]

Screenshots can be saved.... prior to correction - enjoy those 960 rated rounds while you can...

Thanks all... and Good Luck to thos playing in B/N Open in the A.M.

[ziggy]

Before i hit the hay after 16+ hours of working, i want to post the following..

Thank you to Brad Dow and Kent Schafer for being the Tournament Directors of this event

Mad Props to Jim Trotter and Jason Thomas for dealing with Merchandise.

Even more Kudos for Kim Dow as she dealt with the majority of registration.

to Machine, Viva, Ziggy, Lefty, and Smurf - legwork indeed.

Last but not least - the Springfield Park District. This event would not have been a reality without them.

Sponsors:

Ace Hardware
All Weather Courts, Inc.
Blue Moon Saloon and Dining Co.
Convention and Visitors Bureau
Discraft
Double E Media
Dynamic Discs
Gorilla Boy Disc Golf Sports - title sponsor
Head West Sub Shop - all those lunches and more - thanks Brandon!
Innova
J. Ford's DJ Service
LSDiscs
Microtel Inn and Suites - hey guys, how were the hotel rooms?
Miles Ahead - pimpin shirts!
Natural Health Foods
Paper or Plastic Sports
Prime Discs
Randy Johnstone
Southern Illinois Disc Golf
Springfield Bag Tag
SDGC
Uncle Monkey's
Springfield Park District

CTP's were handed out to each GROUP. literally a 1 in 3 or 4 shot. 33% or 25% chance of winning a disc, whoo! Bunches of discs were unloaded.

Rec division..
Where else can you get a $10 water bottle, a $10 t-shirt if you pre-reg, a player's pack with various items, a chance to win a ctp from your group (1 in 3 shot for a disc), free drawings for prizes and participating in a side competition for only $12?

As a result for pricing it that low to have a good time, we did not offer any prizes outside of trophy disc for 1st for the Rec Division.

Congrats to Hermosillo for his first PDGA PRO WIN of the year!

On a side note - Curiousity from a designer's point of view - How did the Douglas layout work out for the Pros/ADV division?

If you have any suggestions or feedback - I welcome it so there's room for improvement !!

I have received the following so far..

1) Temp Laminated teesigns to cover original # at douglas to eliminate confusion from "adding a # to figure out what hole you are on" for the REC/INT division.

2) Split course - have pre-reg at the course where play 1st rd to reduce the REC/INT travel.

[ziggy]

How did the douglas temp design work out for you?

Was lincoln all you expected? Hard to believe every hole has been 2'd from the long tees except #9 so far.

Toss up between #3, 4, 8, 11, 14, 16, or 17 being the signature hole for lincoln..

[ziggy]

Thanks to brett for posting his thoughts on sdgc.org

[stpitner]

Lincoln was great.  Allowing the lower divisions to play from Red tees was still very challenging.  I didn't like hole 16's OB on the sidewalk.  That could have gone away and I wouldn't have complained about it.  I think some of the OB needed to be described better in the handbook - like hole 17 if you go in the road, 16's sidewalk, and I can't think of the other stuff.  The pin placements were great though.

Douglas - I don't know what the regular 16 looks like, but you could have kept the alt 15 and 16 and kept all of the holes as well.  The hole 6 was intriguing, but I'm not sure if it was a huge addition to the course or not.  I liked the idea of different OB between the upper and lower divisions - not sure if they needed as many alternate tees (especially with just grass tees).  The craziest thing was holes 7 - 14.  If you just said that there is no hole 7, players just go from 6 to 8 and then play 8 to 15 with the temp holes numbered A and B or 16 and 16A and then go to 17 might have helped.  Then you just add a note for pro/adv that they tee from 7's tee when playing hole 8... I think that would have alleviated a lot of the confusion.  I understand that the tee signs were just changed before the event or something, but yeah, it was really rough on a lot of the players.  I think the part that we had the most trouble was that you feel like you're playing one hole on the scorecard but the basket # doesn't match, and you just feel like you're doing something wrong. 

I'd also support a larger entry fee for rec so that we could have more of a payout or change the player pack so that there could be a payout.  It was weird for me to play up a division, finish in 6th out of 17, and then only 1st gets a trophy disc.

Those are my thoughts

[Tom McManus]

Lincoln was great.  Allowing the lower divisions to play from Red tees was still very challenging.  I didn't like hole 16's OB on the sidewalk.  That could have gone away and I wouldn't have complained about it.  I think some of the OB needed to be described better in the handbook - like hole 17 if you go in the road, 16's sidewalk, and I can't think of the other stuff.  The pin placements were great though.

Douglas - I don't know what the regular 16 looks like, but you could have kept the alt 15 and 16 and kept all of the holes as well.  The hole 6 was intriguing, but I'm not sure if it was a huge addition to the course or not.  I liked the idea of different OB between the upper and lower divisions - not sure if they needed as many alternate tees (especially with just grass tees).  The craziest thing was holes 7 - 14.  If you just said that there is no hole 7, players just go from 6 to 8 and then play 8 to 15 with the temp holes numbered A and B or 16 and 16A and then go to 17 might have helped.  Then you just add a note for pro/adv that they tee from 7's tee when playing hole 8... I think that would have alleviated a lot of the confusion.  I understand that the tee signs were just changed before the event or something, but yeah, it was really rough on a lot of the players.  I think the part that we had the most trouble was that you feel like you're playing one hole on the scorecard but the basket # doesn't match, and you just feel like you're doing something wrong. 

I'd also support a larger entry fee for rec so that we could have more of a payout or change the player pack so that there could be a payout.  It was weird for me to play up a division, finish in 6th out of 17, and then only 1st gets a trophy disc.

Those are my thoughts

Scott,

The year before the routing at douglas was not good, there was a major back up. I don't remember the exact layout but I think there were problems between 16 and 18.  They really needed the two alt holes this year. It was a very good move to make those changes.