After registration began at 7pm, we had over 80 spots sold within 20 minutes of opening. We filled Saturday’s spots within 5 hours of opening registration, with the 90th player for that day signing up just shy of midnight: Sunday was roughly half full at the same time. Now, 27 hours after registration, there are only twenty two spots remaining for Sunday’s event.

If you or a friend were going to sign up, now would be a great time to do so!

Remember that if you did NOT get in this year, you can always fill out the online form to add yourself to the Waiting List. If anyone has to withdraw before the event, or does not show the day-of, we will begin filling in those spots beginning with the start of the waiting list.

Thanks again everyone, and see you all in a month at the ACT!

Sunday Registration Link! – http://www.discgolfunited.com/disc-golf-tournaments/tournament-dashboard.cfm/tourn_id/382

At 7pm EST, registration will open for both events. Remember to select whether or not you would like to be in the Ace Pot (hit an ace that day, and win all the money in the pot!) and whether or not you would like a fundraiser disc for a $20 event sponsorship.

Good luck, and see everyone in June!

Registration will be available through Disc Golf United again, and you can locate both events at this link http://www.discgolfunited.com/disc-golf-tournaments/index.cfm

Remember that you may only sign up for ONE day! If you play on Saturday you may NOT register for Sunday! And vice versa.

Tournament discs will also be available during registration, your gift as thanks for a $20 sponsorship of the event. All of the money raised from these discs helps us continue to do what we do every year and keep giving you, the players, as much as possible while keeping the entry fees as low as we can.

Get excited! And good luck!

June 2nd and June 3rd!
Two separate 1-day events!
90 players each day!
Small entry fees, big player’s packs!
And other things that need exclamation points!

Registration will open on May 1st!

More info will be coming out over the next few weeks… stay tuned!

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On more reflective matters post-tournament, now that I’ve decompressed from the weekend a bit more… wow. Planning for the ACT usually starts germinating around Thanksgiving/Christmas (I can’t help it) and really starts to get into gear around Feb/March of each year. Organization hits its stride about early-to-mid April, and all of May is one big pile of tournament stuff as more details fall into place. The entire week before the event is essentially spent living/eating/sleeping the last-minute details of the event, and by Friday night we reach the “hold on, here we go!” point. Suddenly, I find myself slowing down and it’s 9:30pm Sunday night, I realize two days have gone by, and I wonder “was that really it?” It’s all quite surreal as we go through the weekend itself.

The actual logistics of running the tournament on event day is like some weird, overly complex dance that everyone expects you to know the steps to, but no one ever bothered to TEACH to you. And you’re not allowed to hear the music. As I said at the awards ceremony, it really is the volunteer staff which I’m so lucky to have that is really the glue that holds the ACT together. I have these thoughts like “we should play alternate baskets in round 2, plus alternate pins where available” and I have people like Brian Carter or DM asking me if they can go move baskets when they need to be moved, people like Steve Ditter putting the trash bags over the “wrong” baskets where we have 2 permanent positions (and coordinating where players can help move them for us after round 1 is over – thanks to you guys as well!!), and poof it’s happened. It’s like some weird magical disc golf fairy is there to grant all of my wishes, except these are real people who all can never be thanked enough by myself. I simply float around making sure all of the wheels are turning, doing a few of TD-specific things, and otherwise help any of those wheels where needed. I simply say “we should do a basket throwoff”, come up with a few obnoxious twists where people get extra throws sometimes and free discs handed to them other times, can turn in receipts for free throws other times; and I have someone like BUC who runs the whole thing soup to nuts both days and does a phenomenal job of it without me really needing to intervene. I have people like my buddy Dave who doesn’t disc golf himself anymore, but still comes out every year to help with all the scorekeeping, being photographer to help document the event when I can’t be bothered to worry about carrying a camera to do the same, and doing any number of other random things that need being done. My wife Jen for doing all of the checkin, scorekeeping, helping me keep things organized through awards, and being so damn good at being able to grab my attention in a noisy crowd with a loud yell of “MCHALE!” so that I can make a call on something she knows I need to have a hand in. All that and for all of her support keeping up with things as we plan for this event, and her helping me to keep my head on my shoulders when putting all of this on sometimes starts to weigh a little too much.

Thank you thank you thank you to ALL of the volunteers who helped out this weekend, ALL of our sponsors for filling our player’s packs and donating prizes to our on-course CTP’s, basket throwoff prizes, and other items available for all of our players like all the drinks (both alcoholic and non). And definitely thanks again to all the players for coming out and participating. It really is fun seeing everyone out there enjoying (we hope) the event that we put this effort into hosting!