tarel
Double Eagle Member
Why keep the epic and have the other odd discs removed?
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
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Epic passed pdgas approval, turbo putt and wheel didn't. That simple. Maybe flexibility issues, maybe Quest knew they were making junk gimmick discs and decided to spend the approval money on a company pizza party or something.
Did i see innova talking about releasing a disc with four different grips or am i losing my mind?
You can't be serious? If they were able to have that kind of influence, why waste it on Quest? Why not a company that could really threaten their sales? Singling out Quest makes no sense.Innova and Discraft killed the Turbo Putt.
^ this.Where's chuck I'd like to hear the truth behind the turbo putt opcorn:
By the time the Turbo Putt came out the Epic had already been out on the market for four years and there were probably tons of them with the PDGA approved stamp. Reneging on that by that point would seem kind of unfair.
By contrast, when Quest AT started coming out with their funky discs, the PDGA knew that they would keep trying these little experiments if it didn't set some hard technical standards on what constitutes a legal disc and what doesn't.
I might note that Quest AT has 27 different molds on the approved disc list. They all came out in 2006 & 2007 meaning that they haven't introduced a new mold in five years. What does that tell you about their reputation?
The scenario that seems most likely to be true to me is that the Epic was really pushing the bounds of the spirit of the rule. They allowed it because technically it passed the rules. When the Turbo Putt came out it definitely was outside the spirit of the rule but still technically passed so they had to allow it. Then the rule makers decided that they needed to be more specific when it came to the rules and retroactively unapproved the Turbo Putt with some stipulations. IIRC, it had only been out a year or so at the time. The Epic, having been out for several years at that time is grandfathered in but no new designs like that will be allowed. I don't doubt that Innova and Discraft pushed the issue, but it seems like something that didn't need a whole lot of pushing to have happen.From what I heared, the epic was the first disc with a excenter rim. They approved it, quickly realised that it is a huge mess, and then decided that the epic was the first and last "special disc" they would approve.
But that's just waht I heared, could be total bull.