10th Downriver Open - Apr. 9 & 10
 

Sunscreen
 

Fingers crossed for good weather this weekend!!

Sign up ends THIS Thursday!!

Any other Montana folks coming over?

What time will be the kick off?

Nevermind just saw the flyer. Sorry!

Speaking of weather, the forecast indicates sunshine all weekend. It is Spring, so I may pack a small shelter to protect from the occasional hailstorm. hehe

whats not on the flyer is there will be hambugers and brautwrust, potato salad and water on sale for lunch at downriver.. $6 gets you 2 hamburgers or 2 brauts potato salad and water

any questions call joe 509-218-0567 ( yes i will have vegi meals as well )

Montana
 

Yay!! More and more Montana folks are heading over for this tourney!!

Ummnnn, if you are local and you haven't signed up.....well............you might want to get a hold of Bob TODAY!!

The field is filling
 

There are about 10 spots left. They will go to the first people who convince Bob to let them in. It's called Downriver but the:chug: river is by no means down.:chug:

Bob... Let me innnnn!!! Pleaseeeeee!!! Pdga 36076

Thanks for getting those Saturday scores up promptly, I love seeing how everyone is doing! Looks like a lot of players are there having a fun time. 8 Pro Women, way to go!

EE

come on Money! win that division!

we had an awesome run for the 10TH Downriver Open CAPPED OUT AT 95 PLAYERS could have used more sun and less wind but in the end it was well worth it THANK YOU TO ALL THE PLAYERS WHO CAME OUT TO PLAY

It was good although the ghost group and was very annoying to get stuck behind. Serious back ups all around the course because of it. Overall great, liked hole 2 (probably one of the few). Will be back next year to seek revenge.

One question, I heard and was around people that had heard that some of the basket positions were going to change on Sunday since there are like 4 or 5 collars still in the ground. What happened there?

Yeah, I actually didn't have any problems with 2 either. I just threw my CFR Gazelle at the tree on the right and let it hyzer out to the left/center of the fairway. In general, I'm not a huge fan of artificial ob or mandos, but this one really made for some serious point swings. The river ended up being my worst enemy. I took back to back 5s on 7 and managed to lose my favorite disc along the way (twice).

Despite the backups on the course, I will say that I probably had more fun at this tourney than any other to date. Thanks to everyone who TD'd, volunteered, and put in work at the course! :yay::yay::yay:

at last minute it was decided it would go against the PDGA`S rules
the player list was over the cap limit of 90. overall i do think it was a good turnout this year (minus the crappy weather)

After much 'disc'ussion the TD and staff opted to keep the course in the same configuration to get a solid three rounds on the same course for the course rating. When all of the new pins are in (hopefully before LCO) and measured and ready to go, we will hopefully go to a rotation system similar to High Bridge.

Well that makes sense. Thanks Bob and great tournament.

A little more about ratings
 

Another 'disc'usion the TD and the officials had was over whether the Final "9" would qualify as a rated round since there were 22 propagators going out. It was brought up that the PDGA sets a minimum of 13 holes of play for a round to be rated so we concluded the '9' would not be rated....During that round I was asked by a player if the round was to be rated because they were having a terrible time and would rather drop out, forfeit their winnings, and not have this event affect their player rating. I assured them the round would not be rated based on the conclusion above. In the meantime I see there are ratings for the'9' on the results page so I potentially have an upset player to answer.:shocked: The only consolation I have to offer at this time also comes from the PDGA; Players who withdraw or fail to turn in their scorecards at the end of play in order to protect their player rating are subject to separate penalties and/or sanctions from the PDGA. (see Competition Manual, section 3 under player misconduct,3.3,#13. .....I'll wait to see if the ratings for the '9' stand and if so I'm sorry for giving the player information that I thought was accurate. In light of the player's clear intent to protect their rating from a high score, however, I think the 'letter' of a high level of player conduct remained intact. ....This issue of withdrawls and player conduct came to my attention during the final counting of cards at the Officials table when it became known that other players had not turned in their cards and thus had raised the 'suggestion' that an attempt to protect individual ratings was afoot.:shocked:

"withdrawls" asks an interisting question the comp manuel states
< 14 full refund -10% cash
14-7 half refund *
>7 no refund *

*disclaimer TD discression is always first choice to amount or type of compensation (PP)

any reason that this is here? is this for DRO or just some random infomation? just wondering