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Any news on the am worlds location for 2016? Trying to decide if I'll need extra events to qualify or if I should just stick to the usual suspects. I looked around but no information yet that I can find.
Not anybody's fault either really, that I know of anyway, as I'm sure if there was a great location with plenty of time, money, courses and volunteers, that had bid on it, we'd already have the location announced.
bogeyfreetilinfinity, I wouldn't expect the qualifications criteria to change from one year to the next with no notice. So since this year has already started, I would imagine you'll want to get the same number of points you needed last year if you intend to go, particularly for divisions that fill up faster.
Isn't the PDGA supposed to be the governing body of disc golf? What the heck are they doing over there? Sounds like Washington up in this peice:doh:
seattle/tacoma would be cool, or somewheres in colorado to get some good mountain golf.
As a long time volunteer with disc golf and with some pretty big festivals I can honestly say you are asking a group who are mostly volunteers having to get a tonne of volunteer committees around the country to send in bids, reply back with the necessary details, then ask for re-confirmation, potential site visit if the groups/courses are not well known. Go back for more detail, especially with groups that are not well known to the PDGA make sure they are not just dreaming and can pull off these large complex events. Make sure they have the depth of volunteer base and confirm they can pull in enough officials.
After all of that I am sure there are other things I've forgotten. Patience, its 18 months away. They will eventually have an announcement.
I do agree, I'd love to know now and start planning to go. However I still need to figure out what I am doing in 2015...
You mean like last year when they changed the requirement for this year in August? :thmbdown:
Did not realize that was the case. Guess nothing is safe about this year either then if that's the case.
Although the ideas presented above sound good in theory, I don't see it happening at the moment with the loose requirements of timing on both bids and hosting itself. Looks like we've got a ways to go before we get to that level of professionalism.
As for lowering the qualifying standards, they were just raised relatively recently to keep more of the lower level players from taking spots from higher level players, so I don't think they'll lower them.
Yeah. There's nothing more disappointing than watching Pro Worlds with the bottom 3 or 4 cards being Rec/Int rated players just 'in for the experience'.
You're watching the bottom 3-4 cards at Worlds?
Serious question...what difference does it really make who the guys on the bottom 3-4 cards are? No matter what the standards for qualifying are, the guys on the bottom 3-4 cards are always going to be the "in for the experience" guys. If they were contenders, they wouldn't be on the bottom cards in a 100+ player field.