Can a company stop a mix bag pro player from using their discs? Like can Innova say you can't throw out plastic since you aren't sponsored by us?
That's a big no from me dawg.
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Can a company stop a mix bag pro player from using their discs? Like can Innova say you can't throw out plastic since you aren't sponsored by us?
Can a company stop a mix bag pro player from using their discs? Like can Innova say you can't throw out plastic since you aren't sponsored by us?
I just wanna know where I can get a Bradley Wigins Nova. :\
Right next to the David Wiliams Destroyers.
Taking bets on these two:
Pierce back to Discraft.
Barsby back to Discraft or to MVP.
I thought those were Bosses. Or are they Destroyers with Boss stamps? Bosstrulcans?
I'd be totally shocked if Pierce left DD for anyone else. She seems happy at DD.
Barsby to Discraft is plausible (though maybe after the Innova contract expires?). Not as likely to MVP.
didn't he win the World Disc Golf Championships with Innova in 2018?
Answer your own question by answering this...how would a manufacturer go about stopping a player from throwing their product?
Never mind why would they want to? If a mixed bag player is competing prominently while throwing their product, and they don't have to pay him in any way, isn't that a win for them? It's like when Prodigy first formed with their super team of pros but no product...they were all still throwing other brands (with the stamps wiped, of course). Schusterick won the Memorial in a playoff over McBeth by parking the first playoff hole with a Firebird. Ricky was putting (and winning tournaments) with KC Pro Aviars well into his Prodigy contract. Innova didn't send out cease and desist letters. They made sure people knew it was their product in those Prodigy player's hands (or at least, McBeth made sure to mention it whenever he could).
So what?
Paul won 4 with Innova
Ricky won 2 with Lat 64
PP won 1 with Discraft, 2 with Prodigy
and they all left.
It's trilogy, but the the sponsorship is never provided in thirds. Odd combinations like 3/8 Dynamic Disc, 1/2 Westside, and 1/8 Latitude 64. But, it's even more complicated than that. Lat64 and DD are co-owners of Westside, and I don't know those percentages — it might be 50/50 — so the Westside percentage is actually part DD and part Lat64. It's all very confusing.
All I can confirm is that the players are supposed to wear team merchandise flair, minimum 15 pieces, in alignment with the percentages of their sponsorship. It's in their contracts. Rumor is Robert McCall really tracked people's flair. Created lots of friction. Main reason he was moved out of the Team Manager position to Marketing team. People grew tired of his flair reports.
I'd like to see Jordan Castro stay with trilogy plastic, maybe get signed by latitude 64. But the one person I'm really curious about is Calvin Heimburg. Could see DD picking him up or maybe even Discraft.