Hi all,
There's a chance I'm going to host an ace race type mini tournament in a couple months with the following rules.
$10 / round
1 disc / round
1 throw / hole
5 points for an ace, 3 points for metal, 1 point for landing within 10 feet
It'll be something like 12 holes and people can play anytime and as much as they want in a four hour window. Winner would get a Skillshot and 1-3 places would get gift cards to the local disc golf store.
Anyone have experience with anything like this? Anything I need to consider? We're raising money for the neighborhood and Madison has such a strong disc golf community that I think it could be quite successful.
Thanks!
This sounds like fun; the $10/round, play as many rounds as you want makes the rest of my comments irrelevant.
For some reason where I live, the general disc golf community doesn't like fun. Their idea of fun is taking a course that is already par 58 and roping it off with OB so that it's harder. Since the idea of 'fun" is based on competition, the Ace Race involved too much luck for them and they wouldn't play.
To bring more "skill" into the mix, four out of the 36 holes were essentially C2 putts. Make the long putts (which is a skill, right?) and you are going to be in the mix. Also in the Discraft version of the Ace Race you get two discs, so we threw both of them. You got to the tee, took the shot and immediately had the change to correct anything that went wrong with that next shot. If you have "skills" you should be able to make that adjustment, right?
Those changes somewhat made the serious Club guys happy and more of them started playing in the Ace Races. Only once in nine tries did somebody win without hitting an ace besides the long putts.
They complained a lot for the Discraft event that they didn't get to practice with the disc so I let people pick up the players packs on Friday for a Sunday event; three guys lost one of the discs. :| Of course they expected me to just replace them so they would still get two throws/hole.
We didn't do that again.
None of that really applies to this scenario; people I'm assuming would choose what disc they are going to throw from their own stash so they can't complain about that. Letting them pay again and take another shot at the holes gives them the chance to dial the shots in if they thing they are that close to getting an ace. It just sounds like fun.