Women's symposium

[VictorB]

Ok, so with the big hoopla women's disc golf has gotten lately (and for good reason) who watched the symposium? There was a big push on other social media to get eyes turned in that direction. I plan to watch the video soon enough, but I was busy last night and didn't really have a lot of time to sit down and see it. I put it on for a few minutes before I went to bed and saw it only had around 330 viewers.

Those of you that watched it, what did you think of the content? Those of you that didn't or don't plan to, would love to hear from you folks as well.

 

[Reniger]

I had it on in the background as I was gaming. Lots of fun, well put together. However, they needed some interweb upgrades.

I was super pumped that my girl Erin Oakley was on. She's only about a half hour away from me and does a ton locally, so that was one of the main reasons that I tuned in.

I though Val did a great job hosting, the live comments were almost all positive, and it seemed to be an overall lifting event. Sure, some of the girls were obviously not specialists in public speaking, but I enjoyed it a lot.

 

[PMcBeth]

My girlfriend watched it, I fell asleep but one thing I did notice is the top two women in disc golf and the two biggest influence had zero presence in the whole thing and didn't even share the link on their social media.

 

[bnbanbury]

My girlfriend watched it, I fell asleep but one thing I did notice is the top two women in disc golf and the two biggest influence had zero presence in the whole thing and didn't even share the link on their social media.

Top is defined by championships right Paul? The reigning world champion hosted the event.

 

[Reniger]

My girlfriend watched it, I fell asleep but one thing I did notice is the top two women in disc golf and the two biggest influence had zero presence in the whole thing and didn't even share the link on their social media.

Yeah, Hannah was blowin' up the chat. It was cool to see Hannah, Zoe, Hokum and a few others interacting in the chat like that. Definitely a perk.

As far as Cat and Paige not being involved... Well, I won't speculate, but I agree it's strange not to have the highest rated women involved in the "Women's Sports Day" event.

 

[corin_brown]

... one thing I did notice is the top two women in disc golf and the two biggest influence had zero presence in the whole thing and didn't even share the link on their social media.

So what?

 

[jvphobic]

Top Women involvement

There will be more symposiums in the future and hopefully they will choose to involve themselves, but from what I can tell, currently Paige and Cat are both more focused on playing the game and not as focused on the political side of it. While they both have very important and valid opinions on women's disc golf, I don't think that this first symposium may have been the optimal time for them to speak.

SmashBoxx did not set the agenda for the symposium, we merely hosted it. But I do like that their first outing was based on attracting women to the sport and why it is important.

As far as why they didn't share it on social media? I do not know.

And someone mentioned something about upgrading our interwebs. I felt that the entire show up until Hokom was very smooth. There is only so much we can do when someone's internet doesn't cooperate. SmashBoxx studios (my basement) just got 300x20 from Spectrum. So our side is very capable now.

 

[BionicRib]

Didn't it get more views than a regular podcast too?

 

[jvphobic]

Didn't it get more views than a regular podcast too?

It did have more live views than any of our normal weekly podcasts. It peaked at just under 400 concurrent viewers. The chat board was very active and the questions were all pretty good. And I will be honest, we had almost NO bans on the chat board. Which is a small victory when you have 5 women on a single broadcast. Everyone was respectful and polite from what I saw.

I would consider the first symposium a success. They will only continue to get better.

 

[Cgkdisc]

Any idea on the counts of men and women viewers? Considering the much lower percentages of women in the sport, up to 400 mostly women viewers would be outstanding.

 

[lyleoross]

While I think it's important that the Val was there, Paul is correct, they need to reach out and get Paige and Cat on board. I don't think Paul was saying it wasn't important because they weren't there, he was saying that all the top women need to promote it and be in line. That is how you have power. BTW, I believe that is why PM stood with BW when he got banned. To be effective you need unity. The top players, when they act together will have more power.

 

[UP Mountain Man]

While I think it's important that the Val was there, Paul is correct, they need to reach out and get Paige and Cat on board. I don't think Paul was saying it wasn't important because they weren't there, he was saying that all the top women need to promote it and be in line. That is how you have power. BTW, I believe that is why PM stood with BW when he got banned. To be effective you need unity. The top players, when they act together will have more power.

You obviously enjoy making it tougher for the posters vying for the "Dude, Pretty Sure I'm The One That Ran PM Off Of DGCR" badge, Lyle.

 

[jvphobic]

Any idea on the counts of men and women viewers? Considering the much lower percentages of women in the sport, up to 400 mostly women viewers would be outstanding.

Chuck, YouTube takes 2-3 days for their analytics to update. But remind me again and I will let you know the numbers once they are released to us.

 

[Cgkdisc]

I'm mildly surprised they can give you the male/female breakdown. I figured you might have to just estimate from the post usernames.

 

[jvphobic]

I'm mildly surprised they can give you the male/female breakdown. I figured you might have to just estimate from the post usernames.

Yeah. They are pretty good with that. I have to assume that it is some sort of estimate based on actual logged in users to Google? But then again, they probably have cookies and other secret stuff installed to give them the analytics.

 

[lyleoross]

You obviously enjoy making it tougher for the posters vying for the "Dude, Pretty Sure I'm The One That Ran PM Off Of DGCR" badge, Lyle.

Most of us are on here having fun and trying to win debate points. Paul isn't going to come here for the same reasons. His MO is thinking globally and structurally, about his career and the sport. When I read things by him I tend to view him from that angle. If I read his post written by me or another poster, I'm might view it differently. That and it's my job to annoy pros and run them off.

 

[Reniger]

Yeah. They are pretty good with that. I have to assume that it is some sort of estimate based on actual logged in users to Google? But then again, they probably have cookies and other secret stuff installed to give them the analytics.

 

[corin_brown]

Did anyone else notice that CCDG ran their podcast with Eagle at the same time as the symposium on Smashboxx? What was that all about?

 

[Reniger]

Ian said that it was accidental coincidence. Then Corey threw Eagle under the bus and said it was completely intentional, but it was McMahon's idea.

Basically, the Women's event just happened to be during the regularly scheduled CCDG/DGWeekly podcast.

 

[VictorB]

Did anyone else notice that CCDG ran their podcast with Eagle at the same time as the symposium on Smashboxx? What was that all about?

I caught just the very beginning of the podcast...they apologized for that and said it was the only time they could set it up this week.