Hmmm.... Bowling Green Amateur World Championships. Added bonus, no pro's to sandbag there anymore if its made a major...
Seems like an opportunity. Do they have a merit based entry?
And Bowling Green's bid was ...... ??????
The bottom line for everyone I've talked to is this: to reduce the size of the field from last year at a time when disc golf is rapidly expanding is incredibly short-sighted. If they can't handle the numbers, they should get out of the way and let someone else do it. A lot of people who have never missed an AM worlds will miss this one, there's a lot of anger out there.
Shortsighted is drawing a conclusion based upon "everyone
YOU'VE talked to." I would venture given your position on this issue that the summary of "everyone you've talked to" is not a representative group of PDGA member Ams. As I've postulated, the majority of the people in favor of
tiered registration by ratings likely are people who have higher ratings. Of course they are -- that system benefits them; it does not benefit the two largest groups of Ams in the entire PDGA. The hard-working Ams to do things for disc golf all year long, pay their dues like everyone else, and are all around people with great attitudes and represent disc golf well, well they matter, too.
In reference to their being "a lot of anger out there" (based upon people who didn't get in), everyone has to know that such was going to be the case anyway. There were somewhere between 2000-3000 invites sent out. If half of the invited people wanted to go, there would be people more people who wouldn't get to go than those who got in. Also, the fact that someone has "never missed an Am Worlds" means new players who want to experience it for the first time shouldn't matter as much??? As Cris Carter would say, "C'mon, man!"
"Get out of the way" for who? Don't just say "someone else."
Shortsighted is judging an event and its effect on growing the sport only by its capacity.
It is also shortsighted to compare the capacity of this year's event only to last year in Kalamazoo which a lot of people seem to be doing. 2015 Am Worlds was the biggest ever (752), but somehow this has become the baseline? They hosted a combined pro/am worlds in 2008.
This year will be the 5th biggest Am Worlds ever. We did pitch the PDGA on the idea of using a nice nine hole course 20 minutes south of Madison. It would have only increased the capacity by 36, but the PDGA declined our offer. If we were using it, we would have been at 612 players tying it for the third largest ever.
Glide, puttlikeablowfly, and their team have done great work from the pre-Worlds communications perspective,and right now that's all we have to go by. Their references speak excellently of their work. Guys, I appreciate your chiming in here, but the haters just gonna hate. Typically these are the same people who can't see it from yours or the whole organization's point-of-view. They only selfishly see theirs.
In 2015, I almost didn't get in -- I eventually got in from the waiting list a couple hours after my division filled. I was b-ing, moaning, complaining ... if it wasn't my year, it just wasn't. Glide, blowfly, I am actually competing this year, but if theres a need for volunteers on some of the other events -- maybe something as simple as a set up or break down crew one day, pm me -- I'm available.
