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My footnote is that in 2011, at their last convention here, I had no idea what they were. I had lived in the city for their previous appearances, and apparently they're not much of a city thing (either they don't appear in great numbers, or they're drowned out by the sirens). Living in the...
In South Carolina we only have the 13s, and due to earlier seasons they've come and gone. I'll say that the novelty wore off in about a week, after which the noise and dead bugs were just a nuisance. (I swore I'd record it, and blast the sound at high volumes into the ground in about 6 years...
The PDGA tried that, years ago. Or a user-managed version of it. It had an incredibly long checklist list of criteria for users to complete, assigned a points value to each, and gave a course a rating.
If you looked at it, you would at least have information on every feature of a course...
We have a private course, and when we evaluate scores, we look first at MPO, and then MA1 (because it's really a blue-level course, better geared to Advanced players than pros). But other divisions also play those holes and tees, too.
The problem, of course, is that even in MPO & MA1, there...
"Across all divisions that played that hole"? What divisions played it, and how many in each?
Ideally, you'd like data from just a specific player rating range. Less ideally, perhaps just a few of the top divisions (MPO, maybe MA1, etc.) My score and a 1020-rated pro's score shouldn't be in...
In the mid-90s a cousin found it, showed my brother, who showed me. Like many people I've met, we were instantly addicted and playing every day. Oddly, it took us about a year to realize there were other courses than the one in our city (Why would someone manufacture discs for just one course...
Yeah, I was paying $6 for DX in the late 90s, when that was all we saw. I remember when Millenium discs showed up for $10, with a claim to be more durable, and telling people, "no one is ever going to pay $10 for a disc." One more reason no one's ever called me a prophet.
Cumulative inflation...
One formula I've seen work is a 50/50 payout -- that is, half the entry goes to payouts (on a regular scale), other half goes to the fundraiser. So players get some payout, which works for those who are so motivated, and the fundraiser raises money from each entrant.
I don't think the rule anticipates abstentions.
Among the cures could be adding "failure to participate in a group decision" to the courtesy violations."
Though, ultimately, I think that any cure in this case is worse than the disease -- more elaborate voting rules, for the rare case in...
....but without adding pages of parliamentary procedure to the rulebook to cover group decision dynamics, I'm pretty confident that they'd go with the "majority of voters".
I fat-fingered a few TD reports, back before online registrations became the norm. Was once surprised to see a player from Japan had played our little C-tier in South Carolina, and wondered how I missed him at the actual event.
If the eclipse gets clouded out, but you play some good new courses, at least you got in what would have been a good vacation. As opposed to those who are spending thousands of dollars and traveling just to see the eclipse.
I had originally planned to head for south Texas, but events scuttled...
Which brings to mind a thought. We have two holes on our course that are, essentially, level. That is, the tee is at about the same elevation as the basket. But one goes steeply uphill, runs level, then back downhill. The other is a downhill drive, a good ways along the low area, then to a...
When I don't feel depressed enough at the distance I lost over the decades, I remember the discs I was throwing in the 1990s. Today's better discs and plastics are masking an even greater decline.