Amateur Challenge Tournament
Archive for April, 2010
Sponsorship Update
Apr 16th
Just wanted to take a minute to thank the sponsors that have pledged their support to the Amateur Challenge this week. Can’t say it enough, sponsors are what make enable this event to give the players such a great value for their money and help us to provide everything in the Players Packs as well as amenities at Tourney Central & out on the course.
- Crafty Scientist – Dayna and Steve at “Team Crafty” have been a sponsor of nearly every (perhaps every?) ACT that has been held. Huge thanks to both of them for everything they’ve done for us in the past and moving forward! Crafty is not only donating yet another new line of soap samples to the Players Packs but we may have more surprises in store as well – plus look for Steve helping out on the course both days of the event.
- Tim “Red Beard” Griskus – What can you say? All-around great guy and a class act. Thank you Tim for your contribution to the event! Everyone should make sure to say thanks the next time they see him out on the course.
- Buried Under Comics – Brian “BUC” Kozicki is another long supporter of the ACT and, as most people in the area know, a huge supporter of disc golf in the region at large. Very rarely will you see an event with BUC in attendance – either a tournament, a local league, or perhaps the occasional round of “Glo” golf – that there isn’t a prize ready to be given away to a player on that day. Thanks as always to Buried Under!
These sponsors will be added to our sponsors’ page soon once we’ve arranged their graphics & linkage.
Interested in becoming a sponsor? Sponsorships can be made in the form of cash, in-kind donations, or cash 
All sponsors will receive thanks on this website, along with display on our sponsors’ page with a requested graphic and link to your website (if applicable), as well as announced during both the Players Meeting & Awards Ceremony on both days of this year’s event. Find out more about what you can do to sponsor or contact us to discuss your contribution to the event. And thanks in advance!
Clearing up some confusion
Apr 13th
It seems there is some confusion about the format this year – as I was sure there would probably be – so hopefully this post can help clear up some of people’s questions.
While we are calling each of the 2010 events “ACT VI”, these are actually two completely separate events. “Saturday Edition” & “Sunday Edition”, “ACT VI.1″ and “ACT VI.2″, whatever people would like to call them. Again, I can’t stress this enough…
The Saturday and Sunday tournaments this year are two completely different events!
We have two separate days of competition, two separate lists of registered players, two checkins, two players’ meetings, two CTP throwoffs to win a portable basket, two awards ceremonies, the works. All divisions will be offered both days, since the point of running two events is to make it as accessible as possible to everyone and I did not want to mandate that particular skill levels had to play one day or the other.
We are not comparing the Saturday scores against the Sunday scores and declaring a “weekend champion”, or anything to that effect. Yes, this means that there will be two Advanced Division winners this year, two Women’s Amateur champions, etc. We are looking to have as many people play on the same weekend, and on neither day should players feel that their efforts playing against the peers in their division on that day are somehow “diluted” by having other competitors who played the day before/after on the same course.
When registration opens, players will have the option of signing up for ONE day of competition. If you are concerned about playing with people that you know you want to compete with/against, it is highly recommended that you coordinate one person in your group to be responsible for signing you all up at the same time once registration opens to give you the best odds of making it into the event on the same day.
If you have any other questions, don’t hesitate to use the Contact Form to drop us a line. More info will be coming soon regarding registration as well as more details regarding the weekend of the tournament, so stay tuned!
