My question is, can you have an Unsanctioned division in a PDGA c tier?
We hosted our first tournament at the local university last year. They want us to make it an annual event. Last year we considered getting it a c tier, even talked to the local PDGA rep, but we decided against it. The vast majority of our local players are not PDGA members. It's generally a pretty casual group, but they support the local events. They don't care to go out and play other tournaments, but always come out for our events. We didn't want to hit them all up with the non member fee, and couldn't drop the price to accommodate it since it was a fundraiser.
Someone asked if there could be one division that's not PDGA sanctioned. Basically, as far as PDGA is concerned, this division doesn't exist. They don't keep track of ratings or anything, we have to handle it all on our own. We'd have the regular divisions as a c-tier, but the bottom division would be replaced with the Unsanctioned.
The few that really want to compete with the top guys and aren't PDGA members would likely be willing to pony up the extra $10 to play in that division.
I just want to make sure there isn't some PDGA rule or policy against it before pursuing it. I'm not sure if it has been done, or can be done.
We hosted our first tournament at the local university last year. They want us to make it an annual event. Last year we considered getting it a c tier, even talked to the local PDGA rep, but we decided against it. The vast majority of our local players are not PDGA members. It's generally a pretty casual group, but they support the local events. They don't care to go out and play other tournaments, but always come out for our events. We didn't want to hit them all up with the non member fee, and couldn't drop the price to accommodate it since it was a fundraiser.
Someone asked if there could be one division that's not PDGA sanctioned. Basically, as far as PDGA is concerned, this division doesn't exist. They don't keep track of ratings or anything, we have to handle it all on our own. We'd have the regular divisions as a c-tier, but the bottom division would be replaced with the Unsanctioned.
The few that really want to compete with the top guys and aren't PDGA members would likely be willing to pony up the extra $10 to play in that division.
I just want to make sure there isn't some PDGA rule or policy against it before pursuing it. I'm not sure if it has been done, or can be done.