kmelton
Newbie
Why the huge points jump requirement for Am Worlds 2017? 2016 MM1 was 250pts. 2017 MM1 750 pts.
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Raising the points minimums shouldn't come as a surprise given how many folks qualified and how quickly Worlds filled the last couple years.
Raising the points minimums halfway through the season in which they're to be earned is a big giant fail (for the second time in three years).
Some of this has already been discussed in another thread, though.
PDGA just sits back and rakes tournament entries without providing much of any kind of service, or adding any value. Then, when it suits them, they just crap on their clientele (card carrying disc golfers).
I won't be running a PDGA event till they pay me to do it!
This should have been the points thresholds on Jan 1, or this change shouldn't take place until 2018.
At the very least, they should use the old minimums for a second tier threshold, if for some reason the new ones don't fill the event.
Agree..... I am going to have to kick things into gear to make that 1500, and in an area that has brutal winters, I only have about 2-3 months of tourney play left.
I won't be running a PDGA event till they pay me to do it!
Look on the bright side. If you do reach the threshold, the invite you receive will be much more meaningful.
I won't be running a PDGA event till they pay me to do it!
Raising the points minimums shouldn't come as a surprise given how many folks qualified and how quickly Worlds filled the last couple years.
Raising the points minimums halfway through the season in which they're to be earned is a big giant fail (for the second time in three years).
Maybe you can run Salient events?
Run a C-tier... keep 15% of the entry fees. You just got paid.
I don't want a cut from the entry fees. I want money from the PDGAs pockets; it's the principle of the thing.
Again very very unlikely.
The reason that the invite level was set where it was initially is because that is where the membership and audience was. There weren't enough truly skilled players to make the events that selective. The intent of the PDGA has always been to make the top tier events as selective as possible. I still remember the criticisms from ten years ago that they'd let anyone play.... If the notion is that the PDGA is supposed to serve everyone, and make an event for everyone, I'm going to disagree. Their job, as per the requests of the membership, is to build the Pro game. That means being selective and pushing for better players to rise up and play the top events. I understand that people feel excluded, I know that I feel excluded that I can't play for Tottenham, but that is just the way life is.
The reason that the invite level was set where it was initially is because that is where the membership and audience was. There weren't enough truly skilled players to make the events that selective. The intent of the PDGA has always been to make the top tier events as selective as possible. I still remember the criticisms from ten years ago that they'd let anyone play.... If the notion is that the PDGA is supposed to serve everyone, and make an event for everyone, I'm going to disagree. Their job, as per the requests of the membership, is to build the Pro game. That means being selective and pushing for better players to rise up and play the top events. I understand that people feel excluded, I know that I feel excluded that I can't play for Tottenham, but that is just the way life is.
I'm pretty sure the transition from a sport that could be all inclusive to one that selects top level players is going to be painful and accompanied with much whinning, but unless the membership decides they want the PDGA to be something other than what they've always voted it to be, that is going to happen.
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