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In the mid-90s a cousin find it, showed my brother, show showed me. Like many people I've met, we were instantly addicted and playing every day. Oddly, it took us about a year to realize there were other courses than the one in our city (Why would someone manufacture discs for just one course...

Yeah, I was paying $6 for DX in the late 90s, when that was all we saw. I remember when Millenium discs showed up for $10, with a claim to be more durable, and telling people, "no one is ever going to pay $10 for a disc." One more reason no one's ever called me a prophet. Cumulative inflation...

One formula I've seen work is a 50/50 payout -- that is, half the entry goes to payouts (on a regular scale), other half goes to the fundraiser. So players get some payout, which works for those who are so motivated, and the fundraiser raises money from each entrant.

I don't think the rule anticipates abstentions. Among the cures could be adding "failure to participate in a group decision" to the courtesy violations." Though, ultimately, I think that any cure in this case is worse than the disease -- more elaborate voting rules, for the rare case in...

....but without adding pages of parliamentary procedure to the rulebook to cover group decision dynamics, I'm pretty confident that they'd go with the "majority of voters".

Well, that group could then vote on what constitutes a majority....

You might start at DGCDwiki, or message Chuck Kennedy, for a start.

Field report: After 13 years underground, our cicadas have a LOT to say.

I fat-fingered a few TD reports, back before online registrations became the norm. Was once surprised to see a player from Japan had played our little C-tier in South Carolina, and wondered how I missed him at the actual event.

I'm tired now, just from reading that course list. I assume your visit coincided with this spell of great spring weather, too.

If the eclipse gets clouded out, but you play some good new courses, at least you got in what would have been a good vacation. As opposed to those who are spending thousands of dollars and traveling just to see the eclipse. I had originally planned to head for south Texas, but events scuttled...

Drone footage of Garnet layout

Which brings to mind a thought. We have two holes on our course that are, essentially, level. That is, the tee is at about the same elevation as the basket. But one goes steeply uphill, runs level, then back downhill. The other is a downhill drive, a good ways along the low area, then to a...

I like leaving it to the player's judgment, myself. "316 feet on the sign. Is that the equivalent of 222', or 405'? Let me take my best guess...."

When I don't feel depressed enough at the distance I lost over the decades, I remember the discs I was throwing in the 1990s. Today's better discs and plastics are masking an even greater decline.

I'd start with asking just how accurate those signs really are. But they might be. I understand that there are commercial-grade GPS devices that are very accurate. We hired a contractor to build a pond for us, and he laid it out with some sort of device, not surveyor's tools.

And the life I live now's an extra life I can waste as I please on whom I please. So if you see me celebrate two birthdays, And give myself out of two different ages, One of them five years younger than I look-... --Robert Frost

Man. I've been out 3 1/2 months, and am eagerly looking forward to throwing a little, soon. I can't imagine how good it must feel to throw after that ordeal, and all that time.

Sounds like you'll be getting a lot more kayaking practice than disc golf practice. Plus, practice with discs you wouldn't otherwise throw, is of limited use. But, hey, if you're having fun... My experience is that I once had a Dragon, and it was one of the worst discs I ever threw. I've had...

Or perhaps it's just about the smugness of mocking someone's disc choices. I've come to think that there are so many models, because there are so many arms, and every disc is the right disc for someone. As for the Mamba, I and what's left of my old arm had one that was one of my go-to drivers...