I agree with you Sidewinder.
Quitting because you lost a disc is unsportsmanlike but it's tough for me to 888 someone in league. Just doesn't seem like it's the same level as a 2 round tourney.
I don't necessarily disagree with the decision to award a 999 rather than an 888, however, what bothers me is that it violates a basic principle of disc golf: the principle of risk-
vs-reward.
Any player with more than a modicum of experience—and, certainly, anyone capable of competing in the SECO meets that criterion—knows full well that any time you throw a disc there is a possibility that you could lose it, either because it's irretrievable or due to damage.
If the disc was important enough to quit a league round over in order to have it available for the SECO, he shouldn't have been throwing it in the first place, so why did he still
choose to throw his go-to disc, despite the forseeable risk?
Regardless of the actual degree of risk, by choosing the immediate potential reward (a better lie for his next throw) over the potential future risk (not having the disc for the SECO), he implicitly accepted both the risk of losing it AND
ALL the possible consequences that could arise if it were lost, one being an 888 for dropping out to look for it if it ended up lost.
If you're gonna do the crime, you gotta be willing to do the time.
He gambled. He lost. He should accept the consequences.
