Gennataos
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I'm bummed. I get what these events are, marketing opportunities, but I'm still disappointed. It's $10 more expensive than last year and doesn't offer anything material over what was offered last year. So where's the extra money going? I guess insurance and PDGA sanctioning.
The insurance offer is probably huge for some folks who had to fork over the money for insurance or were simply unable to do so, and thus could not run one. My past two events didn't require it, so it means nothing for me.
PDGA sanctioning? I don't know that many players who've played my past events would care much about this. It certainly wouldn't be much of a selling point. These type of events are perfect for drawing in newer players and the like...players who don't even know there IS a PDGA, much less care about this sort of event being sanctioned. Oh...and the real kicker? The TD must be a PDGA member. I've never been a PDGA member and I don't envision myself becoming one. Maybe I'm an outlier...maybe most people who run events like this are already PDGA members? Now...there is a caveat that not ALL VBBs must be PDGA sanctioned, but it's on a case by case basis. I don't know that me not being a PDGA member would be enough.
I think it's fine that we're limited to the new fairway lineup and putters. I know some folks would probably prefer the mids were available, but I get the marketing drive with the fairways.
If you get 30+ players, you get "extra" prizes. Maybe they'll tell us what those are later, maybe they won't. Historically, they've updated the VBB site as time goes on with pics of prizes and whatnot. Does that mean I get the same number of extra prizes if I get 80 players as I would if I got 30? /shrug
"The player pack shirt is the best shirt ever produced for disc golf." No pic of the shirt. I guess we'll take their word for it.
I really, really dug this event in 2014, which is why I ran one. I felt it was a great value proposition for players and offered a fun, alternative scoring format. I thought they improved some stuff for 2015, so I ran another one, but the lack of fairway availability did bum me out. This year, from what information they've made available thus far, they're charging players more and offering them less. It also appears they'd require me join the PDGA to even run one. I'm not going to do that.
Anyone else have opinions on the changes? Maybe have more insight it why the changes happened?
I'm bummed. I get what these events are, marketing opportunities, but I'm still disappointed. It's $10 more expensive than last year and doesn't offer anything material over what was offered last year. So where's the extra money going? I guess insurance and PDGA sanctioning.
The insurance offer is probably huge for some folks who had to fork over the money for insurance or were simply unable to do so, and thus could not run one. My past two events didn't require it, so it means nothing for me.
PDGA sanctioning? I don't know that many players who've played my past events would care much about this. It certainly wouldn't be much of a selling point. These type of events are perfect for drawing in newer players and the like...players who don't even know there IS a PDGA, much less care about this sort of event being sanctioned. Oh...and the real kicker? The TD must be a PDGA member. I've never been a PDGA member and I don't envision myself becoming one. Maybe I'm an outlier...maybe most people who run events like this are already PDGA members? Now...there is a caveat that not ALL VBBs must be PDGA sanctioned, but it's on a case by case basis. I don't know that me not being a PDGA member would be enough.
I think it's fine that we're limited to the new fairway lineup and putters. I know some folks would probably prefer the mids were available, but I get the marketing drive with the fairways.
If you get 30+ players, you get "extra" prizes. Maybe they'll tell us what those are later, maybe they won't. Historically, they've updated the VBB site as time goes on with pics of prizes and whatnot. Does that mean I get the same number of extra prizes if I get 80 players as I would if I got 30? /shrug
"The player pack shirt is the best shirt ever produced for disc golf." No pic of the shirt. I guess we'll take their word for it.
I really, really dug this event in 2014, which is why I ran one. I felt it was a great value proposition for players and offered a fun, alternative scoring format. I thought they improved some stuff for 2015, so I ran another one, but the lack of fairway availability did bum me out. This year, from what information they've made available thus far, they're charging players more and offering them less. It also appears they'd require me join the PDGA to even run one. I'm not going to do that.
Anyone else have opinions on the changes? Maybe have more insight it why the changes happened?