The Inevitable 2024 Pros Switching Sponsors Thread

[BuiltTooLong]

Vaino Makela has been dropped from Prodigy. Damn. The purge continues. He is a favorite amongst the other players on tour.

 

[BuiltTooLong]

The one of Drew Gibson is pretty good. But why is Drew even in the video?

Cuz their plastic is so good they don't even have to pay him and he still throws it.

 

[redflyer717]

Vaino Makela has been dropped from Prodigy. Damn. The purge continues. He is a favorite amongst the other players on tour.

He's one of my favorite disc golf names. Seems like a really cool guy, too. Wonder if he'll also get picked up by Innova.

 

[seedlings]

Vaino Makela has been dropped from Prodigy. Damn. The purge continues. He is a favorite amongst the other players on tour.

Dang. Maybe have to drop Schusterick next.

 

[mostlynorwegian]

Vaino Makela has been dropped from Prodigy. Damn. The purge continues. He is a favorite amongst the other players on tour.

Discmania would probably be just fine with gaining ANOTHER (past-tense) Prodigy player.
There should be two more coming. Especially after watching those painful (design flaw) spit throughs the one brother received.

 

[TheOtherBill]

Has subtitles so hopefully you can either read English or understand Finnish.

 

[Flick Maniac]

Väinö Mäkelä, someone who is pretty much synonymous with Prodigy in Europe (maybe 2nd after Seppo Paju)....?

Herd is getting thinned big time.

 

[TheOtherBill]

Lots of chatter that Prodigy will be sold (or majority stake) to HoD soon. Europe seems to be their best focus going forward, but the Vaino thing doesn't seem to align with that.

 

[Flick Maniac]

"Mixed, but relieved feelings" - Väinö Mäkelä comments about the end of the 10 year partnership - Frisbeegolfmedia

The most followed Finnish disc golfer, Väinö Mäkelä, announced on Instagram that he is ending his partnership with Prodigy Discs. Mäkelä represented Prodigy

frisbeegolfmedia.fi

His initiative, it says. Also says "we'll see" about what discs he will be competing with in Sweden this weekend.

 

[Murwen]

A guy I know was at Ymergården, the site of the Swedish Open, today spectating the practice rounds, ran into Väinö and had a little chat. Väinö wouldn't say who he has signed with, there will be an announcement on friday. It looked like he was practice putting with Aviars however.

 

[geebob]

I think the photoshop of Joel Freeman is my favorite.

Hilarious. The shots of Holly and Kat didn't seem like much of a stretch... nor did Vinny for that matter.

 

[Streets]

I'm kind of surprised Prodigy has lasted this long as a company.

 

[TheOtherBill]

Without the Paju family investing in Prodigy Europe, I don't think they would have made it this far. The Covid boom surely made a difference, but not sure they would make it to 2020 without Seppu.

 

[coupe]

Looks like Prodigy is hell-bent on proving the $1.5 million in lost revenue and the "without a high profile PGDA athlete under contract" claim they tossed out when they sued GB back in '23.

 

[Al Dente]

The question is whether it's worthwhile for these companies to give contracts to players who are neither winning nor regularly on lead cards. When sales grew dramatically during Covid alot of players were given contracts. The companies should have enough data now to determine who moves plastic and who doesn't. Prodigy may just be the canary in the coal mine.

 

[colink]

The question is whether it's worthwhile for these companies to give contracts to players who are neither winning nor regularly on lead cards. When sales grew dramatically during Covid alot of players were given contracts. The companies should have enough data now to determine who moves plastic and who doesn't. Prodigy may just be the canary in the coal mine.

In general I agree with you, but I don't if winning/being on lead card translates to higher disc sales. Otherwise, one could look at the folks who are usually outside of the top 20 and wonder why they're sponsored at all.

 

[Al Dente]

In general I agree with you, but I don't if winning/being on lead card translates to higher disc sales. Otherwise, one could look at the folks who are usually outside of the top 20 and wonder why they're sponsored at all.

We can only speculate as the sales and contracts aren't public knowledge, but performance oriented contracts with only small guarantees would seem to make the most sense for the manufacturers.

 

[Tpip]

Väinö to Innova.

 

[Flick Maniac]

Yeah thats what the Swedish Open chat is saying. Not too surprised after KJ. Still trying to find offical post tho.

Edit. Väinö's Instagram has it.

 

[Tpip]

Yeah thats what the Swedish Open chat is saying. Not too surprised after KJ. Still trying to find offical post tho.

It was on DGPT broadcast. Same video is on Väinös Instagram.