We Actually Pulled It Off: Inside the 2026 USWDGC in Utah

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Welcome into the Elevate Utah Disc Golf Podcast. I am Nick joined by Scott.
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Sean.
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Brody.
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Yeah. And today we have
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I don't really know what to expect from this show. We can just say Exactly.
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Exactly.
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This is the US WDGC
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twenty six kind of recap show.
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All four of us had the opportunity to be fairly intimately involved with this event. Yeah. And we haven't really spoken to each other about it yet. We've been we've been holding it in so that we could get it all out.
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Yeah. So buckle up because who knows what's about to happen.
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Just like the week. Right? The week of kinda who knew what was about to happen.
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We we were gonna have Rob here this morning as well who is one of the tournament directors,
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and he asked if we would if we would read a little statement from him.
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Rob Boland says, I have the honor to be the tournament director of the twenty twenty six USWDGC.
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In my thirty years in business and disc golf promotion, the LOC for this event was the strongest cross functional team I've ever been a part of. Elevate Utah and Scott played a critical role in this event. Elevate Utah is having a lasting impact on disc golf in Utah.
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The challenges that the LLC faced over the last eighteen months were substantial.
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Elevate Utah was the stabilizing factor in overcoming these challenges and producing one of the best events in disc golf history.
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My heartfelt thanks goes to Scott, Sean, John, Nick, Cammy, Sophie
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add Brody in there, and everyone else involved with Elevate UT.
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Thank you, Rob. That was awesome. Yeah. Yeah. It was it it would have been nice to have to have Rob on the podcast this morning, but Thursdays are his busy day. So Yeah. It didn't it didn't work out. And we're actually having this podcast at a normal at at a less than normal time. Usually, we're we're having some whiskey while we do this. But today, we're having some coffee. We're doing it first thing in the morning. Yeah. That's nice. It's got a new aura. Yeah. I like it. Yeah. It's more business when it's business time.
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Very much so. And we have Brody here for the first time on the Elevate Utah podcast.
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Brody was a a massive part of this tournament as well and has something pretty exciting happening this weekend.
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Yeah. On top of everything else, I am getting married on Saturday.
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So
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yeah. So I'm shifting gears from Just from tournament mode to wedding mode. Yeah. Just keeping the excitement alive. Yep. Yeah. One event to the next. Yeah.
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Yeah. This one's slightly smaller.
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You know? A little bit. Yeah. Less less women involved.
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Still on a disc golf course.
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Still on a disc golf course. Still on a disc golf course. That's right. As it should be. As it should be.
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Well,
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let's go ahead and get started here. Maybe to to start it off,
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just kind of an open question here. What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think about
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the event in retrospect?
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Lightning.
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Right off the bat. Air burns. Yeah.
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My shin muscles just burning
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walking up and down that mountain. Not only for the weekend, but just like the prior weeks ahead of like setting up,
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just like just hiking up and down Brighton.
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Yeah. Just kinda it it was one of those, like, consecutive days of just hanging out in one place,
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where you just kinda like, you almost just become intimate, and then you're kinda like,
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you're not there anymore, and you're like, wait a minute. Yeah. Something seems off. Yeah. I think I need to go back to my happy place.
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I think it might make sense to put to put, the perspective of the event,
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in in place for for the people at at the table. You know, I was I was during during the week, I was responsible for a lot of
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just making sure that all the small pieces were in place and making sure that the plan that was established was executed,
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and I was in charge of
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the the merch and getting getting getting that team going and getting players and spectators on the lift, and making sure that that everything ran smoothly there.
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Sean, you were in charge of of spectator control,
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and really just just, you know, making sure that that a that a lot of the logistics leading into the event were were solid.
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Mhmm. But then but then, when it was tournament day, you were more focused on the spectator experience on mountain and making sure that they're all going through. Yeah. Brody, you were you were kind of a fly on the wall as far as the media team goes, and and you tried to get yourself into position to capture the moment, as well as to capture the post moment
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from the from the perspective of of Instagram and social media and stuff like that. And then Nick, on
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Thursday and Friday, you were up at Brighton doing some scorekeeping and doing some other stuff like that that's support.
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And then and then Saturday and Sunday, you pivoted to tournament director of Dragonfly for FA one,
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FP 50, and FP 55.
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Yeah. So that's that's kind of what we at the table worked worked on during the event.
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So that's that's your that's our lens that we're that we're speaking from.
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Yeah. That makes sense.
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Brody, I don't know about you, but this like, the first thing that comes to my mind is just
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holy shit. We did it. Like
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like, I can't believe it all came together the way that it did. Like, it was
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It's unbelievable. I
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I'm so proud of everybody.
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And,
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you know,
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being on the mountain for those four days
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and seeing all the locals and all the familiar faces and everybody
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had a smile on their face, and everybody was, like,
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so jazzed.
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And it was palpable.
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You know, you could feel it.
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And,
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you know, I'll just say on that last day,
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like,
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several people I talked to
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were crying
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out of joy Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. In relief In relief. And and
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just how monumental this event
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was
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for all of us involved behind the scenes, you know, so many moving parts and to see it all come together and
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brighten
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be shown in such a great you know, despite the lightning,
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I think all the positive feedback about the course and Chaz's work and Mhmm. And seeing all our stuff come together
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and being able to pivot and and be nimble and, you know, I think
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I was just so proud of everybody everybody and
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to be a part of it myself too, you know, is
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really special.
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Yeah. I I might say life changing
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for I don't know. For me, like, it was
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the amount It's of those once in a lifetime opportunities somewhat. Yeah. You know, like, how many people get to say they get to throw a a PDGA major in their backyard,
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and then basically
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get to do it with all your friends. Yeah. You know, it was a lot of fun. Even It was a lot of fun. I mean, that was kind of the one thing, like, going back to saying, like, oh, like, can you believe we did this? Like,
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go back, like, a year or so when it was just like, oh, yeah. We're doing a USWDGC,
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like, next July.
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And you're just like, oh, yeah.
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And then, like,
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as it just kept rolling, like, then you got into meetings, then, like, you're, ask you know, it comes to that point where, like, oh, we're gonna do this. Like, this is happening.
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And then it just started, like, you know, you'd have those, like, oh, we need people to do this. And it's like, alright. Let's reach out to our community. And it was just collectively
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getting the right people.
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Everyone, like, you know, everyone came in and gave it their all. Like, it was and then as a volunteer unit, like, it was one of the best I've seen, like, come together.
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The community support for this event was remarkable. Yeah, Everyone was so jazzed. Everyone was so ready to, like, they're like, yeah. This is awesome. This is happening. Let's do this. And, like I said, I mean, early mornings, late nights, like, just physical
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labor of getting, like, the course
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courses done,
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getting everything out, like,
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throwing audibles to, you know, to people just be because we've none of us have ever done this before. Rob has. But it was just still the idea of, like, us kinda like, okay. We just want this thing to go off. We want it to be, like, you know, the best show ever. And we
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it it I don't know. I just
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I was I was blown away at, like like I said, the amount of people that showed up that, like, you know, basically were dedicated and, like,
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basically wanted this product,
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you know. Yeah. And to Brody's point, with the long days, the early mornings, the late nights,
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every single volunteer that I that I came across had a giant smile on their face. Oh, yeah. They were just happy to be there. And they were doing fourteen hour days. Yeah. You know? On a on a seven hour shift.
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With In the rain. A with a single sandwich. Yeah.
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Yeah. And some snacks that Dave Roper hiked up the mountain. Dude, shout out to shout out to Dave Roper. Oh, Sandwiches, man. Oh, yeah. Like, every time I was feeling down, a surprise sandwich showed up in my pocket. He just, like, walked by and snuck a sandwich in my pocket. I was like, what is that? Is that a sandwich in my pocket? Oh, yeah. There's Dan. Are you just happy to see me? He'd be he'd be running we'd be following Chase card down, and he'd just be running through the crowd just handing out sandwiches to people. And they're just like, where are you coming from? And just disappear into the woods
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with a bag full of sandwiches, just like this little sandwich elf. I love it. It was so much fun. Yeah.
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And that that's one of those things that you that the public doesn't really get to see.
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But Dave Roper put in so much work to do that. Late nights making sandwiches. Did he go home and make 60 sandwiches a night? I know. One of the nights he met me at the bottom of the canyon because he
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had bought some stuff for dragonfly for the weekend and he was in the middle of making sandwiches and it was like 10:00 at night when I met him. And he's like, oh, I'll meet you at the base of the canyon. I'm about halfway through making sandwiches for tomorrow.
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But that was that was kinda like the real, like, special moment of seeing those little things. And you saw it through everybody. You're just like you you just run into people and like, what are you doing right now? And they're like, you know, I'm doing this, this, and this. And you're just like, okay. Cool. Like, it was just I don't know. Like, everyone was kinda everywhere,
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but like I said, everyone was happy to be doing what they were doing. Yeah. Well, and there was a lot of spectators that that showed up, paid their $25 to get on the mountain, and then they became a volunteer by the end of the day, either stat keeping or emergency spotting or having to hop in their their all terrain vehicle and drive up to a top of the mountain to to get
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FPO players back to their t's. Yeah. You know? Like like, we had
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every every moment of the event
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when we needed something,
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our community was there
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to
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happily help.
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And that's that's the thing that I think when this when the dust settles on all this, that's what I that's I'm what gonna remember the most is that is that we had
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we just had an incredible community show up for this,
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and
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all the competitors that I talked to saw it.
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They it was a tangible thing that they were able to see grasp and understand
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that our community wants them here,
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except for the one person on uDisc who was a told dick about things on you know, about women shutting down Creekside.
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But other than him,
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everything was great.
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Well,
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that makes me think about how I'm up there filming. Right? I'm I'm trying to get in there on on cards and and get some candid shots of players.
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And
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very quickly, realized, oh, this this story is is turning into a different story of how the community showed up. And midway through all that, I thought, well, this is actually more of a documentary about the Salt Lake City scene than it is about these players at the USWDGC.
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You know, just just impressed with everybody showing up and everybody smiling and everybody having a good time and chipping in on the shuttle,
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the shuttle effort,
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and
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the stoke was
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unbelievable.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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No. Shout out to the community. You guys you guys showed up in a big way, and
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I'm thankful and proud Yes. And amazed.
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Yeah. Yeah. And I mean and leading up to the event for months, I mean if you just take Dragonfly
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for instance because that was where my purview was.
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We probably had
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80 individual
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different people come out and volunteer at Dragonfly across four different volunteer days.
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We had over 2,000
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volunteer hours getting that course ready to go and cleaned up and everything and that's months in advance of the tournament itself and a lot of those same people
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are the ones who had bought spectator passes and then chipped in when they got up there you know and
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like I
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I'm blown away with the support of the community
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and
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and humbled
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that that we were able to be a part of this and and see
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this through.
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Because without the community none of this would have been happen would have been possible. It didn't matter how well the LOC was run. It didn't matter how, you know, without the community support, this would have flopped. Yeah.
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Well, I mean, that was
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the underbelly of it all was the fact that
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when showed up, like, because you were talking about, like, everyone who showed up for Dragonfly.
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And you look at that course now, and it shows. Like, you you show, like, the effort and love that was put in. And now, like, I mean,
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four of our courses are absolutely, like,
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shining right now.
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You know, like, Roots, Creekside,
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Brighton, Dragonfly,
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like, those courses just look spectacular
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right now.
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Yeah. So it was also, like I said, it it was also, you know, we put the love into our own community to make it look the best it can be,
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which is awesome. Yeah. Yeah. I think I I think one of the strongest things that I've that I've felt over the last couple of days since it's been over is I've been I've been watching a lot of a lot of YouTube,
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you know, I've been watching all the YouTube, and I've been I've been listening
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to podcasts and stuff, and and I almost never hear any of these hosts talk about the local organizing committee. I almost never hear them talk about
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the volunteers and the staff. I almost never hear about that at all at these tournaments. And and this one, every single
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media
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is talking about
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our volunteer crew and about our staff.
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And to me, that just speaks volumes because if if people can see that from their couch, right,
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in Maine while they watch this, then that means that we had a significant impact on on on the positive outcome of this event.
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Yeah.
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And it's not only just the the media across the country that has come to the defense of and, like, and talked about volunteers and things like that.
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I saw one comment on one of the videos like somebody was trying to throw shade on the course saying it's not major worthy and if you have to have spotters in every hole can you really host a major there and somebody popped into the comment section and say
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do not
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like assume that just because we have good community support that the course is not major quality. Like that is totally indicative of the community and not the course.
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And I thought that was really cool and to see all of the pros like
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chime in and be like, yeah,
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just know that not a single one of us agrees with your take, so you're just wrong, sir. Like, it was kind of the sentiment.
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Hey, man. You
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you'll you'll always get you'll always get the negatives out there. You know? Because he's he's probably someone who was just sad he couldn't be there. Probably. Right. Or jealous that everyone in the field grows farther than him. Yeah. Yeah.
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So
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I want to take just a flashback
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to almost eighteen months ago to April
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2025.
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We had just gotten awarded the bid
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and
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Sean, Scott and I had been at Merabin
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all day getting everything set up and Scott turns to me just kind of willy nilly and he's like,
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do you wanna be a course director for US Women's?
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I was like, sure. Like it was supposed to be at Riverbottoms at first
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instead of Dragonfly. And I said, sure. I had no clue what I was getting myself into.
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it was a special week.
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I mean, it's been a it's it's a special year and a half is really what it is. Yeah. You know? It's like these these things don't just come and and run themselves. You know? It's like things went so smoothly because because we we were meeting every every other week, and and we were, you know, like, on having meetings with specific
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not to say there were there were there were bumps and bruises, there absolutely were bumps and bruises, but,
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last week is that the public can't see these bumps and bruises because they don't they don't know what to expect. They don't know what
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is right and what is wrong, and so it doesn't matter. Just do the best you can, and if you have a bump and a bruise, no one's gonna see it but us. Yeah. Mhmm. Yeah.
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Okay, so let's shift gears a little bit to
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everything set up the week before
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that were featured on the event Brighton
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was where FPO and FP-forty played
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for Beepool the last two days and then Roots and Creekside both had
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every other competitor
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well every competitor except for FPO and FP 40 played Creekside
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know C and D pool flip flopped between Roots and Creekside.
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a pretty significant lift to get the job done.
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So obviously, I have the perspective for Dragonfly and what that took.
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But Scott, do you wanna talk about Brighton a little bit and and we'll start there?
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Yeah. I think I think we can start start there.
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It actually might make more sense to have Sean talk about it because he's because he was kind of the floater between all of them. So I think I think it let's kick it over to Sean.
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well, I guess we can start with,
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you know, the running around and start talking about the week before because the week before was either
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a phone call at 09:00 at night or a text message at about 08:00 in the morning from just like, hey, can you go here and do this? And it was like, yes, you know, like just kinda getting these last minute things. Yeah, last night you told me that I bell checked you a few times. You did bell we've now turned bell check into a verb,
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but it was a
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yeah. There was a few there's a How would you how would you define the the the verb bell check? The bell check. Getting bell checked.
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It's okay. So, basically, it it I'd only kind of relate it to, like, being bamboozled.
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And it's kinda one of those things where it's like,
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hey, man. Can you give me a hand unloading this truck tomorrow morning? I really need to get it done. And you're like, alright. Great. And he's like, what time? And it was like, alright. Meet at 09:00. And it was like, alright. 09:00.
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That let's just say this was at, you know, at night. And then the next morning,
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you drive up there and it's just then you get the text message on your ride. And it was like, hey, man. Really busy busy this morning. Probably not gonna be able to make it up there. You gonna be okay? I believe. I believe in you. Oh, like, oh, look at I just got, like I believe. Yeah. I believe in you. This whole task that,
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it just got it just turned on to you, I'm like, alright. This is now fully my task. Yeah. We'll just we'll just know that that if it's happening to you, it's happening to everybody else too. That's why I wasn't upset. It was like I said, it was one of those things where I knew I mean, you know, the weight on your shoulders was probably a little bit heavier than the weight on my shoulders. So, like, I could go and focus on that and get it done. Where like if if you were there, like, you'd be it'd be phone calls and like these pop up meetings and like replying to text messages. You had a lot of correspondence to do more than me,
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where it was like, it almost made sense, but it was just funny in the idea of like, oh my god, I just got bell checked again,
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you know?
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that's kinda like my, like, I don't know,
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my happy place is
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the kinda like, you know, the actual executing of things. Like the actual, alright, here's all the signs. They got it like, as you start progressing and you can kinda see you can kinda see the, like, the picture come together,
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where, like, you show up at Brighton and you're just looking at the mountain, and you're like, this place is cool anyway. And then all of a sudden, you just start putting in,
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banners, flags. You start, like, lining logs around,
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you know, fairways.
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everything together.
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And you just kinda, like, oh, this is actually really cool. Like, you you know, and and then people you you start seeing people as you're doing it, they're just like, this looks awesome. And you're getting the feedback, so it's all positive. And it's like, you know, yeah, it's hot, you know, and you're, you're
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exhausted and you're you're just lugging things up and down a mountain and like but those those aspects are like, I don't know, it's kinda what I thrive on. It's what I kind of do for work and it's just kinda that whole
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it's that whole perspective that keeps me, like, moving.
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mean, it was one of those things where I didn't see Dragonfly until last night. Mhmm. And it was one of those things where, like, you hear, like, all the people talking about, oh my god, you gotta see this, and you gotta see this. And
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like, I played Creekside that Tuesday morning bef the week before. And it was like, I played it, like, I was down there at, like, 07:45,
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and I was just like, you know, I wanna just go get around it. And it was just peaceful, but there was still people people out playing that early.
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from Idaho that came down,
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and it was like, they just I think they were coming down. They had a they used to live there, and they were coming down to see their kids, staying with them because they were planning on watching
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or being down there for the events, and they were just, like, blown away by the like, just the look of the course.
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yeah. I don't know. Like, those are see seeing all the
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I guess the like I said, the courses in general just kinda pop off and knowing that it was, like, four different groups of people doing it. So, like, all this was happens happening simultaneously.
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Mhmm. And I was in my own little world up at Brighton,
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but at the same point, like,
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other crews are just, like, you know, dissecting.
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of the week before. Yeah. It was that Tuesday. It was Tuesday on on the week before, and and we had a plan locked and loaded that that as as soon as as the trailer shows up, we're gonna rent a box truck. We're gonna get all these assets out out to
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to these courses and get them get them staged and ready. And I think when when the PDGA got here and
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they got into town, like, we had done all pretty much all their work for them. Like, they're used to getting here, renting trucks,
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opening up the trailer,
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getting getting their their course assets out, and, you know, they're getting the tents out, getting the flanners out. And
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we were so organized and so ready for this to happen that we did all that for them. Like, they basically off the plane and walked around these courses and just been like, okay, that that OB line needs to stretch out a little bit more.
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Yep. We just gotta make sure that this is here. Like, just tiny little tweaks. They were done with their walk through in, like, an hour and a half. I mean, I think they were shocked by our energy.
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you know, Matt and Jason were just kinda getting out of a truck, like, stretching. Yeah. Hey. Good morning. I'm like, alright. Cool. Where were these sleds going? What has this happened? What's happened with this? Right. You've got a you've got a 20 pound sledge on my head.
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Next thing know, we get onto the mountain, and they were both jazz because they just drive around. They're like, we probably need, like, five here. And I was like, alright. I just had slim and Yeah. They were just pointing. And then they're like, okay. That's done. Okay. Let's go over here and do this. And then, I mean, within a couple hours, they were like, I think we're done.
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Like, we did get everything done. It was awesome. And then they were like, yeah, we gotta head down to like I think they were heading down to Creekside to
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drop off a few more flanners and a few PDGA,
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like, those, like, bottom
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bottom signs.
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yeah, they were like, oh, that was great. Like, it took, like, two hours.
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We got all their stuff up. Yeah. We were yeah. I I don't think that the PDGA,
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typically, for these majors, encounters
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teams that that are so
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effectively
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effective,
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essentially. Yeah. You know? Because we had we
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had everything organized down down to the very last item
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with team leads responsible for each of those those things that that have been working on this thing for a year and a half and and operated in the pocket.
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So it was it was a phenomenal effort.
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Yeah. It it makes me think of
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a leadership leadership term term that I learned
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a while ago that it's called decentralized command.
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It's actually like a military term originally
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but I feel like we operated with decentralized command very well basically where it was everybody has the vision,
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everybody has what the end goal is and what needs to be accomplished
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but then everybody did it in their own way and used creativity, got volunteers,
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like all sorts of different things, but it was very
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I I'm just so impressed with the LLC and how And much got and it was not just that. It was they they operated under full trust from from every single person in the in the organizing committee,
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and that went all the way down into their budget. Like, we didn't set a budget for these for these people. We gave them all credit cards to be able to spend whatever they needed to,
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statement and work within the trust boundaries,
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and nobody
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abused it.
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everybody had exactly what they need when they needed it. It was yeah. It was great. It's it's the Netflix model. You know, Netflix has this this mantra of this has been going on for almost a decade and a half now, where they they they only hire capable people.
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If if if they're deemed not capable, they're met with, like, third like, a a generous severance,
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and they're expected to operate autonomously in the best interest of the company with every tool available.
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And and that's that's how I've that's how I've always seen
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running teams is is through the the eyes of the Netflix model.
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Yeah. Yeah. Well, it's no doubt effective.
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Let's talk about sheer sheer course assets that went in this week. So we had the PDGA trailer that came in.
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I know we had two PDGA tents at Dragonfly.
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We had three PDGA flanners.
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Do you know how many were at all the other courses?
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Oh, yeah. Because I was I went up and dissected all the planters, all the tents,
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everything that got dropped off. I saw all the water jugs get dropped off by Coca Cola because I was up there with the truck. Yeah.
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so for the most part, I think there was about
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let's see here. It was it was like two full pallets of flanners.
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each each course got, I think it was like
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20 flanners.
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10 and then 10 Acxiom or Streamline.
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left for Brighton, they had the most.
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was at least three to four m v 10 MVP tents that got distributed down to the courses in the valley. And then I was I think there was four
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left for Brighton and then a couple of 10 by 20.
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yeah. I mean, that's the the logistics of that stuff is kinda like
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that's what gets me all, like, you know, jazzed up for these things
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because it is, like, I like, that day was fun. Tuesday was, like, the delivery day for some reason. It was it was a lot of fun. Like, it was just kinda
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you know, I love being in that mode of, like, just logistically, like, be like, okay. Gotta meet him to, getting things distributed, getting things lined up. Like, I met with Brett, getting everything cleared out of the the closet, getting everything squeezed in there. And then just everyone, like, even even when I was unloading the truck for him, like, there was a few guys who showed up to play the course, they're like, you guys need a hand? Just because they knew what we were doing. They're like, oh, this is, you know, this is all for this is all for a good cause. So
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but,
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yeah, there was
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yeah. It was just a lot it was a lot
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of, like I said, just meeting the mark
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to to get all this stuff done, and I I don't think it was anything crazy. Like, I think it all it all went pretty smooth.
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No one was in panic mode, no one like, there weren't people kind of bickering or yelling at each other for certain things, like, everyone was just very, like, you know, on point and ready to go. Like, I feel like everyone was on call that that week,
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and it was, you know, once you once the bat signal came out, it was like, I got you. I'm on it, you know, and like, I don't know. Plus just the energy, like, running around,
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like, I've never been to another round so many times in one week, where it's just like, oh, this just seems like the meeting headquarters after you're done with a task or something like that, and then it was just collective, where'd you come from? It's like, I was over at Roots. We ended up doing this, this, and this. A turtle just laid eggs in the middle of a fairway, and it was just, you know, it was just it was just exciting, you know? Yeah.
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But How many white stakes did we end up getting painted for the event? It must have been
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right around five fifty,
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and shout out to Shay Chamberlain for doing that.
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How many miles of rope did we put
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down on a lot? A
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lot. I can tell you. I love it though. It looks so clean. You know, like it's I
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love a good tournament ready course. I think there's just something
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when it's all set up, there's an energy
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that it's emanating from the course that's palpable.
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of the players too that were playing down
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in the valley was the idea that
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every course was set up,
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matching, if not, like, you know, mimicking
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what was up at Brighton. Like, every course got the same treatment.
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Yeah. That was one of our was one of our our mission statements is to make every division feel like FPO. Yeah. We wanted every division to feel like the big girls. And I think I think it it went over really well because there was a there was a lot of talk about, you know,
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them just being like, wow, this this feels like, you know, an actual, like,
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big a to do
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while they were playing.
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Yeah. There's Congratulations. Yeah, there's something about you know, and good work to everyone on their own courses with that just set that up so perfectly to make everyone feel so special while they were here.
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Yeah. Well and we might act might actually get to play some disc golf again and enjoy these courses. Well, I'll tell you what. I played I played last night at Dragonfly and shot a big old turd fest
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because I haven't been playing at all. So Yeah. If you wanna get good at disc golf, don't run a major.
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I think that I think that was the consensus among among most players last night was, hey, man. I haven't played disc golf in so long. I'm just happy to be on a course playing disc golf. I don't care what I'm throwing right now. Yeah. You know? Yeah. And and we'll get to last night in a little bit as well because I think that that that bears repeating kinda what happened last night at Dragonfly.
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white stakes,
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of rope. Yeah. Got I got the brain spinning on it right now. Okay. Yeah. So to be to be determined. Yeah. Oh, here here it is. Let's see what we got.
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12,000 feet at Roots, that doesn't seem right,
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9,000 feet at Creekside, and 10,000 at Dragonfly.
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And will that rope stay up at those courses for as long as it lasts? Is that the plan? Yeah, we'll see. I think, I think well, I mean, Roots, I think, to be taken out right away. Creekside has to be taken out right away just because,
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you know, I think if anything, Dragonfly will stay. Mhmm.
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And,
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Brighton will stay till at least Utah States, because I think that that we're planning on playing the same layout for Utah States,
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or just slightly different.
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So
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yeah.
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Yeah, I know I've talked with
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the guys who manage the
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Dragonfly course, namely Aaron and Sean Bagley, Aaron Prescart and Sean Bagley,
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and they're planning on leaving everything the way that it is for at least a month
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until it gets too overgrown and has to get mowed and then the rope might come out, but a lot of those stakes are gonna be permanent down there. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. I mean, it's gonna be a pain in the ass to mow and make sure that the grass around those stakes stays trimmed. And keep that place mowed, because it looks beautiful, Aaron. Yeah.
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Yeah. Aaron did so much work out there too. A big shout out to Aaron Presgaard for the work that he has done at Dragonfly. Unsung hero of this entire event. Yes. And then he went up and did crowd control for
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Brighton.
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He was doing chase kill. Yeah.
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And every morning
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leading up to the event, he was down there
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on the mower or pushing the mower or doing something to help make that course beautiful down at Dragonfly and
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I cannot tell you how many compliments I got for Dragonfly in the course and how beautiful it looked and how like
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from the community and from the competitors alike
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and so huge shout out to Aaron.
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However many miles of rope, five fifty white stakes,
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tents on tents on tents.
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I know at Dragonfly alone we had 13 shade tents that we put up. Needed. Needed. We needed. Yeah. And the
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community came through again. Lehigh City
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let us use four of theirs, we had the four MVP Acxiom ones, we had two PDGA ones and then
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Nate with Birdcage found a bunch as well that were unbranded.
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Great.
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And then Sean Bagley brought his own. So we had a total of 13 tents at Dragonfly.
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Basically every tee pad that was exposed
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in the sun had a tent behind it where the players could hang out and
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then several at Tournament Central and it was a lot.
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I don't even know how many hours to estimate
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for course prep, like how many volunteer hours there were for course prep across all four courses. Yeah, it was a lot. Was lot. Was a lot. Let's just say infinity.
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Yeah, an infinite number.
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But at the end we got it done and I know again from my perspective at Dragonfly when
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we had our course walk through with the PDGA
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on Monday morning
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and fly.
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At Matt Lloyd kept saying,
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I was worried about this course when we did our walk through last fall,
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but man, this looks good. Like he was saying, this looks good.
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Man, this looks good.
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If you haven't met Matt Lloyd, he's he's a he's a he's a fun very funny man. He showed up he showed up he's from he's from Arkansas,
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and he showed up with a giant mustache, and for some reason, it went away during the week. I'm not sure exactly why. Must felt really? Must have felt uncomfortable with a giant mustache around 400 women.
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And
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he his name is Matt Lloyd, and he calls himself I am I'm Matt Lloyd with one I'm Matt one l Lloyd because I'm too because my family's too poor for two l's.
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Love the guy. He's just a really funny guy. Yeah. I had kind of an interesting experience with him
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at Brighton. One of the days he was walking down, it was after,
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I think it was after the first day he was walking down
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towards the parking lot and I was hanging out near the
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the near bottom of the lift
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and he had gotten hot I guess and so he ripped his shirt off
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and
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I kind of called out like take it off and he turns
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to us and there was like 10 of us by the bottom of the lift and he's like y'all don't know this, but this is peak male physical form in Arkansas.
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And then it just walked away.
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00:39:25.190 --> 00:39:28.550
And it was really funny. Was he, what was that pre or post mustache?
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00:39:28.710 --> 00:39:34.605
It was, it w he had the mustache still. I think this is on Thursday. Yeah. Yeah. Was right before. I remember that moment.
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Yeah.
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So
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we all of the courses got set up. I know another big shout out to Sean Bagley.
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My my assistant tournament director
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had
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to drop out due to some personal reasons
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like three weeks before the event and we called on Sean Bagley and he stepped up in a big way. Dragonfly would not have
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gotten set up as quickly as it did without him. I was trying to do it all myself and that was a bad idea.
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But he got involved and he pulled,
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we pulled several twelve hour days out there
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hammering stakes,
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doing lines,
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I know Scott came one of those nights and provided some needed energy
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to help us like get the final touches done
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and then he was able to organize volunteers from the the Utah County community
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in a big way and, like, couldn't have done it without you, Sean. So thank you.
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Feels like we've been chatting about course setup for a little while. It has been. I was just about to
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go to the week of.
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Let's talk about that. Week of, PDGA gets into town,
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competitors are starting to arrive.
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I know
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there there was several
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like socials and things like that leading up to the event itself plus opening ceremonies which I do want to talk about opening ceremonies for a little bit as well.
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But
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what
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when when players started to arrive,
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what what did you all feel like changed
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when that started happening?
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Well, I would say for the most part,
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like the first
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the first part the the first pro that I saw that ended up coming,
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you know, was obviously, saw when we were setting up at Brighton, we saw Jen Allen start throwing.
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And then I remember, like yeah. She was the first she she was one of the first to arrive. She was one of the first to arrive. She was I would say she was, like, the first one there. Every day we were setting up the course and just kinda, like, adding all the details. Like, you'd see her come through and just, like, rip shots.
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And you were just kinda, like,
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one, just jealous because she was just
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ripping discs Yeah. Because she's like, way better than us. Yeah. And you're just like, oh my god, this is gonna be so cool.
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But it was like, I mean, I wouldn't say it'd be one moment, but it was collectively like little things.
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Like, was one point, you know, I'm just sitting in another round when we had the I was delivering all that stuff with the truck and I just like, I came in,
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sat down, had a kombucha, and it was just kinda just chilling, and next thing you know, like, Kyle Klein walks in.
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And you just kinda like, oh my god. And then it was just kinda like this whole like surreal, like, just start seeing people
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around town and then like, you're telling me, you're like, oh, I just filmed the practice round with Garrett Gurthy and Jessica Gurthy, it was just like, I'm like,
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oh my god. It's like all happening around us. Like, this is all just like descending upon us and it's like And you start seeing Instagram posts. You start seeing Instagram post.
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You start seeing all this stuff and I'm like, it's all like, alright, great. Like, here it comes. Like, you know? So those were kinda like, I wouldn't say one moment, but it was just collectively these, like,
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small little moments of like,
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oh my god, like, you know.
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Like, my
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my personal obsession with this sport is now just like
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circling around me and it's like, it's just a good feeling, you know? Yeah.
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00:43:01.390 --> 00:43:06.990
I I know I I had I got to have a unique perspective
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of this as well because I work in another round part time.
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And then before the event, Birdies and the Beehive, which is the small YouTube channel that I help run,
495
00:43:17.315 --> 00:43:22.515
filmed all of the courses in tournament layout and posted them for the competitors to be able to see.
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Competitors And the amount
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that came through the shop, first of all, was,
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I mean, probably had to be close to half of the competitors at least that came through the shop when I was working there.
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And just the love for the practice rounds and
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mostly the amateurs
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or the age protected.
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Know they're coming in blind this is the one big tournament they play every year for a lot of them and a lot of them have been coming for years
503
00:43:51.245 --> 00:43:54.330
and I had several of the competitors say
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00:43:56.890 --> 00:44:05.530
I was able to then I was able to watch the practice rounds, see what I was in for and then go to my local courses that best matched that layout
505
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and go practice
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and go. And one of them actually took Elaine King down to like the last, the last couple of holes and then Elaine King birdied and she bogeyed. And so she lost by two, but she, she turned to me and she said, because I was able to practice Elaine King now knows who I am. And I was able to compete with her for four rounds which is kind of cool.
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But yes, so many, I mean even a lot of the pros like you said Kyle Klein and Emily Weatherman came into the shop. She had lost a leopard at Brighton and she needed to replace it. And so they came in and chatted for a little while. And Elaine King came into the shop and she walked in and she I was like, oh, it's Elaine King. How are you doing? And she's like, oh, I'm doing fantastic.
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If you have any fission photons
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eclipse
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reactors that you'd like me to sign, I'd be happy to do so. She volunteered it and then Ben was in the shop at the same time and he went and grabbed a stack of 10 of each of them that we had. And she just sat at the counter and
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00:45:04.140 --> 00:45:05.580
signed these discs
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and chatted and it was so much fun. And then all of the okay. I'm getting ahead of myself a little bit. But
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what about for you, Scott? What what kinda changed when players started to arrive?
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Well, so I I think it was my my understanding that that Brighton was going to be a spectacular spectating experience
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because I was on the lift
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doing some stuff, just shuttling to the top of the mountain or shuttling down,
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and the lift stopped me right above
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00:45:37.295 --> 00:45:38.575
Tournament 17,
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Course Eighteen's tee pad,
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and
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Katrina Allen was throwing practice shots there, and I just got stuck right behind her with, like, the perfect viewing angle of being able to watch this thing. And
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just knowing that just how unique and special this venue is
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because you can
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your spectating experience essentially starts when you get in line to get up the mountain. Right? You get four holes to watch.
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And so to to me, that was just like this moment of of energy
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kind of closing
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and a new energy starting
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because
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planning was done. I was on a lift. I was watching players
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from the lift
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practice,
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and I knew that there's really nothing else that I could do to prepare for this week because
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it was here.
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00:46:32.625 --> 00:46:39.665
No balls She's going right there. Now it's just now it's just survived. So for me, was a that was an energy changing moment.
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00:46:42.910 --> 00:46:44.110
And yeah.
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00:46:45.390 --> 00:46:52.350
Sorry. I'm a little bit distracted because I got an I got an email that, Kent Moose, smashed the super race just a little bit ago. Oh.
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I'm watching it right now.
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00:46:55.465 --> 00:46:56.185
So,
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00:46:56.345 --> 00:46:58.905
yeah, whole whole tenant at roots through the triple.
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00:46:59.225 --> 00:47:02.425
Oh, nice. I I want to get that hole so bad. I've tried.
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00:47:11.530 --> 00:47:20.730
High five. Sounds High five. Oh. I'm not running out. He's gonna run it out. You're asking. You'll
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00:47:20.730 --> 00:47:29.785
be able to see that soon on on the league's website. Yes. Yeah. And and I'll make sure to link that in the show notes as well for people to to click on.
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00:47:31.625 --> 00:47:34.425
Can I add something to that sentiment about
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I was up there helping Scott install some signage for flipped before the tournament started at Brighton
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and seeing players
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practicing?
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It was surreal, seeing cat merch up there,
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seeing
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Taylor Josek.
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Some of these players I've only seen on YouTube,
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and
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being like, wow. This is real. They're here. It's happening.
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00:48:00.115 --> 00:48:03.715
And seeing some of those shots just of them practicing is like,
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this is gonna look good.
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I could tell. This is gonna look good. And
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I come down the mountain, back into town. I'm like, I need to pick up some cereal before I go home for the family.
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And I see AB's parents
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in grocery aisle and I'm like,
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what
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is happening?
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What
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is happening?
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And so it was just very surreal and very What kind of cereal were they picking up? I think they were getting vitamins.
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I think they were getting some vitamins. I don't know if had that cereal. Yeah,
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that's It's a little crunchy for my taste. That's weird. Because AB's mom was competing, right? She played at Dragonfly. Uh-huh. Yeah. She was the FP 50. Yeah. Very cool. So
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00:48:50.835 --> 00:48:52.835
just surreal and it was kinda like,
567
00:48:53.555 --> 00:48:55.955
here we go. You know, all this prep
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and,
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you know, I like to think that we won the game in practice
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by prepping and being prepared and and being on top of stuff. So
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like you say, it was
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00:49:08.330 --> 00:49:12.970
the ball was rolling at that point and it was just kinda like hop on the train and here we go.
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I know. So it was a little it was a little sad this week when all my notifications
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because all our meeting times are still up on my Google Calendar where it's just like I get the notification. It's like, oh, your USWDGC
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00:49:25.915 --> 00:49:49.375
blah blah blah meeting starts in ten minutes. You haven't hopped on any of those just to see if see if anybody else is hopping The first one, that Monday night one, I did just to see, like, is someone gonna pop up? Was like, hey. What's up? Hey. You know, like but it was that was the 07:00, the seven p. M. One. I definitely, like, was just kind of like, let's just see. I just want to see if people are just jumping in just to, like, chitchat and hang out. But,
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00:49:50.815 --> 00:49:54.815
but, yeah, like, those are, like, nostalgia moments where you're like, oh, all those meetings are gone.
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00:49:55.055 --> 00:49:55.295
But,
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00:49:56.630 --> 00:50:01.110
yeah, it was I mean, overall, like, it was like you say, Brody, it was just kinda like just
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that, like, you know, the passion I the the love I have for this sport and the passion I have for it, and then, like, all the other aspects that you just watching it on, Joe Mez or DGN or everything else. And then finally, you're just kinda like,
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00:50:16.525 --> 00:50:24.840
oh, wait. This is all happening around me right now. And you just kinda like, you know, you're front and center. You're seeing everything happen. You helped everything happen.
581
00:50:25.160 --> 00:50:33.720
You and everyone around you is basically like responsible for this. And it's just kind of like, it doesn't really hit you because you're in, you're just in that like go go mode.
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00:50:34.120 --> 00:50:40.845
And like once you do get a moment to like sit down, like I would say like the chairlift rides were like those perspectives
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00:50:41.165 --> 00:50:45.165
because the chairlift was just like just a nice slow ride up that mountain.
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It just gave you a moment to breathe and look around and just being like, this is awesome. Like, you know, all this like the fact that this is happening in our backyard and the fact that, like, we all put this together, it's just kinda unreal. Yeah. I feel like it's hard to be stressed out while you're riding the Lyft because it's just such a surreal
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00:51:03.560 --> 00:51:13.675
environment around you. I mean, counterpoint counterpoint when you're when you're on that lift and and and you gotta get up to the top to do something and you know that you just are at the whims
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00:51:13.915 --> 00:51:20.190
of of this. Well and another thing too is is is I think it was it it was Thursday.
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It was it was it was Thursday. It was our first day of competition,
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00:51:24.350 --> 00:51:34.430
and I was I was exhausted. And I just actually just didn't wanna go up top to to watch. I was perfectly content to sit my ass down and watch it from the Jumbotron
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00:51:34.665 --> 00:51:46.185
and just relax. But Ben just kept pushing me. He's like, dude, we worked for, a year and a half for this. You gotta get up there. Get your stuff and go up there. And so I was like, fine. I'll get my stuff. And so finally got finally got going, and
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lead card was about to tee off, and we sit our ass down on the chairlift.
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And I'm not kidding, like, soon as our ass touched the chairlift
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and we were off,
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the horns blew.
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And and so then it's just like, oh, great. Okay. Well, at least a half an hour of this rain delay or or this lightning delay will will be us, like,
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on the chair lift
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00:52:12.265 --> 00:52:13.625
going up to the top,
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and but then it was like, you know, two hour, you know, delay.
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But
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you can't you can't prepare for for for lightning delay. You just can't.
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There's one thing that I wanted to mention, and and and it's impostor impostor syndrome.
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I think that
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leading up to this
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like, when I first put the bid in
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00:52:36.315 --> 00:52:38.635
when I first started the nonprofit, really,
605
00:52:39.275 --> 00:52:42.760
I I was dealing with a lot of impostor syndrome. You know, like,
606
00:52:43.160 --> 00:52:48.760
am I the am I the guy for this? Right? Like, can I can I make an impact? Can I can I do this? And
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00:52:49.960 --> 00:52:53.160
the whole first year was essentially faking it until you make it.
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00:52:53.560 --> 00:52:57.355
And that that somehow went away at some point
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00:52:57.675 --> 00:53:03.355
over the last year and a half to the point where I don't feel that anymore. I don't feel like
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00:53:03.675 --> 00:53:06.875
I'm an outsider. I don't feel like I don't know what I'm doing.
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00:53:07.920 --> 00:53:09.600
That's gone. And
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00:53:11.600 --> 00:53:14.960
it wasn't existent at all this this last week.
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00:53:15.520 --> 00:53:24.355
And I I I don't know how how you guys feel about it, but I felt I felt in the pocket the entire week. I felt confident about what we were doing the entire week.
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00:53:24.755 --> 00:53:25.235
And
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00:53:27.795 --> 00:53:28.435
yeah.
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I
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00:53:30.675 --> 00:53:32.835
I definitely understand that sentiment,
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00:53:34.595 --> 00:53:40.310
especially, like, being the youngest person on the Elevate Utah board. Like, that can be a little intimidating sometimes
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00:53:40.390 --> 00:53:43.430
and the newest to disc golf, right, out of everybody.
620
00:53:43.990 --> 00:53:46.630
You never know by your game, bro. Thank you.
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00:53:47.925 --> 00:53:48.645
Appreciate it.
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00:53:49.285 --> 00:53:52.805
But I definitely have felt my fair share of impostor syndrome
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00:53:52.965 --> 00:53:58.325
throughout this whole thing leading up. But you're right, the week of, it was just execute.
624
00:53:58.325 --> 00:54:01.285
It was execution time, everybody was in the pocket.
625
00:54:03.210 --> 00:54:05.530
Extra gear that I forgot that I had.
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00:54:06.650 --> 00:54:15.530
And that was in and of itself, if there was nothing else good that happened the entire week, which there was plenty of good that happened, like that was a really good thing for me.
627
00:54:16.375 --> 00:54:19.495
I mean, I'm a go to bed at 09:30 kind of guy
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00:54:20.135 --> 00:54:23.655
and up at six and I think I averaged
629
00:54:23.735 --> 00:54:27.335
less than three hours of sleep at night Oh, yeah. On like tournament week.
630
00:54:29.940 --> 00:54:38.260
I think we might be getting a little bit ahead of ourselves and I apologize to all of the listeners. This is going to be scrambled a little bit and this is going to be a little bit chaotic.
631
00:54:38.980 --> 00:54:48.435
And it's gonna be long. And it is We're still on the calm down. We're a little excited. All right? Are. Bear with us here. Yeah. And we specifically have not hung out really and talked about any of this so that we could get it on
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tape.
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But
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let's
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00:54:52.195 --> 00:54:54.515
back up just a little bit to opening ceremonies.
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So opening ceremonies was held at the beautiful
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Utah Cultural Center
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in West Valley, Utah.
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What a spectacular venue And for
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I know Sean you had a big hand in all of the setup and the coordination
641
00:55:11.930 --> 00:55:13.050
of all of that.
642
00:55:13.450 --> 00:55:17.115
Do you want to walk us through a little bit about the behind the scenes there? Sure.
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00:55:19.595 --> 00:55:20.715
So we basically had
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00:55:21.995 --> 00:55:27.835
let's give a shout out to the events team for that whole situation with Stacy, Matt, Claire
645
00:55:28.875 --> 00:55:30.395
Yeah. Myself,
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00:55:30.395 --> 00:55:30.795
Eric,
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00:55:31.950 --> 00:55:33.390
Scott, Rob,
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00:55:34.350 --> 00:55:37.310
and everyone else who who jumped in and and, you know,
649
00:55:38.270 --> 00:55:42.030
put in their time and effort to to make it go off. But yeah. I mean,
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00:55:42.350 --> 00:55:46.405
that's where I think, you know, with me, like, lot of the meetings started with that
651
00:55:47.685 --> 00:55:49.445
months back, you know.
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But
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00:55:51.605 --> 00:55:53.365
that was kinda like a
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00:55:53.765 --> 00:55:58.730
that was kind of the first, like, you know, really getting into it and dissecting kinda what was happening.
655
00:56:00.010 --> 00:56:03.850
What we were doing for food, what we were doing for entertainment, you know, what we were doing
656
00:56:04.410 --> 00:56:07.370
because it was just this it was gonna be an all day event.
657
00:56:07.530 --> 00:56:11.290
And I know, like, I haven't I haven't been to many. I've been to
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one player's meeting for
659
00:56:14.705 --> 00:56:16.705
the masters down at Rio Doso.
660
00:56:18.465 --> 00:56:32.650
And so and even that one, when you showed up, it was like, alright, you showed up for the players meeting. There was a room full of, like, taco takeout that just it was just like grab a taco, go sit down. And so I had nothing to compare it to, but just the conversations we were having
661
00:56:32.810 --> 00:56:33.370
and,
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00:56:33.850 --> 00:56:37.770
know, just kind of the visions and and what people expected and what people wanted
663
00:56:37.930 --> 00:56:39.770
for those opening ceremonies.
664
00:56:40.250 --> 00:56:40.570
Like,
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00:56:41.305 --> 00:56:46.025
you knew it was gonna be, like, a a great thing. And we had pivoted a lot. We kinda cut a few things.
666
00:56:46.345 --> 00:56:46.905
And
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00:56:47.865 --> 00:56:49.385
with with those aspects,
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00:56:49.625 --> 00:56:50.185
you know,
669
00:56:51.865 --> 00:56:57.900
I I work in events and I know a lot of the stuff, like, from your, usually your first grand idea,
670
00:56:59.260 --> 00:57:05.980
it's the catalyst to make it what it needs to be to be successful. Like, you know, and so you start kind of picking things apart and
671
00:57:06.460 --> 00:57:15.085
Yeah. Our first plan was to have this be a women's wellness Yeah. We were expecting like 1,500 people. Mhmm. The public come out, 50 or 60 vendors.
672
00:57:15.405 --> 00:57:17.965
Like like, that was our that was our big grand idea
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00:57:18.525 --> 00:57:19.965
to to start this thing.
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00:57:20.525 --> 00:57:26.120
And that, you know, we we pivoted on that like six months ago. We were just like, okay, let's pare this down. Yep.
675
00:57:26.440 --> 00:57:29.800
We wanted like live bands playing. We wanted,
676
00:57:30.120 --> 00:57:30.840
you know,
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00:57:31.320 --> 00:57:33.800
yoga sessions, sound baths,
678
00:57:34.360 --> 00:57:38.280
you know, just a just a lot of different things that just kind of promoted and celebrated women.
679
00:57:40.175 --> 00:57:44.415
And I think in general, like, you know, through our meetings, like,
680
00:57:45.375 --> 00:57:48.735
it just kind of ended up pivoting. But at the same point, like,
681
00:57:49.295 --> 00:57:54.790
you'd see people's passions come out, like, shout out to to Stacy with her passion for getting majority
682
00:57:55.190 --> 00:57:57.110
of this stuff organized
683
00:57:57.110 --> 00:57:59.670
and and detail oriented.
684
00:57:59.990 --> 00:58:03.430
You know, she was in charge of all the permits, you know. Obviously,
685
00:58:03.945 --> 00:58:08.425
in Utah, we we we ran into a few issues with some
686
00:58:08.425 --> 00:58:09.625
some liquor license
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00:58:09.705 --> 00:58:10.905
and, like, you know,
688
00:58:11.225 --> 00:58:27.310
oh, they're selling liquor upstairs and downstairs, but the liquor from downstairs can't go upstairs and the liquor from upstairs can't go downstairs. Like, it was kinda like, how how's the how's the public gonna perceive this at just that one staircase we gotta be like, you can't go downstairs. You have to stay up to fit, like so it was kinda like those little things.
689
00:58:28.350 --> 00:58:30.510
But it was good. Like I said, it's just, you know,
690
00:58:30.990 --> 00:58:34.155
we prevailed. We We all talked it through. I don't think there was, like,
691
00:58:34.555 --> 00:58:46.235
very little bickering, you know, in those in those things because I I'm I'm I'm involved in a ton of these meetings for events, and it's a lot of just, like, my idea is better than your idea. Like, it just but
692
00:58:46.870 --> 00:59:00.655
Yeah. It was very fluid. It was very yeah. But it was very collaborative. Like, I think, like, the moment we knew something wasn't gonna work, was kinda, like, consensual between, like, the whole group. Alright. Cool. Yeah. I agree. That's not gonna work. Let's let's let's pivot to,
693
00:59:00.975 --> 00:59:02.655
you know, in this direction to
694
00:59:02.895 --> 00:59:10.415
to figure out the best solution to make it successful. You actually skipped one meeting and all of your ideas were axed while you were while you were gone.
695
00:59:13.240 --> 00:59:27.240
I I was I was I was away for, like, what, one meeting, and then literally I came back the next day and, like, no one was talking about the things I had to do. I'm like, let's talk about this. Like, yeah, that's gone. And I was like, okay. What about this? Yeah. We're not doing that either. And I'm like, okay. Great. So what am I doing? So
696
00:59:27.960 --> 00:59:29.655
what am I doing? But
697
00:59:30.055 --> 00:59:30.695
no,
698
00:59:31.015 --> 00:59:31.655
mean,
699
00:59:32.055 --> 01:00:00.395
in the opening ceremonies, like I will say from the beginning, like, you know, the once we started those meetings, like that's where all my like anxiety and stress went to because it was immediately being like, okay, we're in charge of this big thing. This is the first thing people are going to be introduced to for this. Like you don't want it to be a dud like like any type of party you're throwing. You don't want people to show up and like, what's going on in here? What is this place? Like, you know, you want people to show up and be like, oh, this is cool, you know?
700
01:00:02.635 --> 01:00:04.635
And so, like I said, like the movie,
701
01:00:05.115 --> 01:00:07.595
we we had we had so many ingredients,
702
01:00:07.675 --> 01:00:22.120
like, going on that it was like, I'm like, this can't not work out well because there's so much for people to do. Like, it's not like, hey, here's a room, here's a table full of discs set up and then maybe go grab yourself a drink like, but figure out something to do. There was so many things to do. And like,
703
01:00:22.520 --> 01:00:23.080
once
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01:00:23.400 --> 01:00:29.095
it actually went off, like, I mean, I just wanna point out too with this, like,
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01:00:29.655 --> 01:00:32.615
there was the vendors, like the the movie,
706
01:00:32.855 --> 01:00:34.295
the, you know,
707
01:00:34.615 --> 01:00:44.770
the players packs, which I watching watching some of the players come in and seeing what they were getting, like, you could just see everyone was pumped up. But I have to give a shout out because I think, like, one
708
01:00:44.770 --> 01:00:48.210
person who stole the show at the opening ceremonies
709
01:00:48.210 --> 01:00:49.650
was Creech.
710
01:00:49.730 --> 01:00:55.890
Creech. And I gotta give a shout out to Creech because, like, I gotta give a shout because there was there was, like, three points
711
01:00:56.265 --> 01:01:03.865
during this tournament where Creech came in clutch for me, like, so many times. And he was just there just you know? But,
712
01:01:04.105 --> 01:01:06.585
yeah, he he he showed up that morning.
713
01:01:07.705 --> 01:01:13.060
And what I thought he had was just a display of, like, the croquis for your sunglasses.
714
01:01:13.300 --> 01:01:22.820
And it was just like, oh my god. I'm like, what is he doing here? He's like he's like, oh, I'm vending. And he's just carrying this little, like, stand full of what I thought were croquis for sunglasses.
715
01:01:23.620 --> 01:01:25.860
And then I'm just like, oh, those are balloons.
716
01:01:26.180 --> 01:01:37.955
And then he just walked into the vending room, sat, like, in the center of the room Yeah. Next to his balloons and just started making balloon animals. And I I one, I never even knew that this was, like,
717
01:01:38.435 --> 01:01:45.570
his special talent. So I I actually asked him about that and he is self taught. Yeah. He just from YouTube University,
718
01:01:45.730 --> 01:02:03.455
know, he just looked at some videos to figure out the basic things and then he just kinda ran with it. Yeah. And it was like and then it everything just kinda like start falling into place. I met like the the two young girls selling lemonade with their father. Yeah. You know, and it was just like, I'm like, oh, this is gonna be so great. Like
719
01:02:03.935 --> 01:02:05.215
and then like I said, it was
720
01:02:06.495 --> 01:02:08.735
it just started rolling through. It was a little hot out there.
721
01:02:09.720 --> 01:02:14.200
You know, I was basically working with Noel Covey with her putter Olympics,
722
01:02:15.400 --> 01:02:22.920
you know, set up and we got that like and it was just like little things that just kinda once once all the pieces fell into place, you were just like,
723
01:02:23.240 --> 01:02:25.765
this is gonna be a fun time. Mhmm. You know?
724
01:02:26.485 --> 01:02:29.605
The the venue is situated, like, perfectly.
725
01:02:30.085 --> 01:02:36.325
And, I mean, we had a few pivots even during the day. Like, we were supposed to have players meeting out of the amphitheater.
726
01:02:36.720 --> 01:02:44.720
But knowing with the heat, it was just like, perfect, we'll bring it inside, you know. Great call. Yeah. That was that was one of the best calls of the week. Oh, absolutely. You know?
727
01:02:45.360 --> 01:02:47.120
That that could have been the,
728
01:02:47.840 --> 01:02:58.255
you know, the salt in your milk to to ruin the day if everyone had sit outside in the hot sun right before the tournament just wanting to get out of there listening to that.
729
01:02:59.935 --> 01:03:03.535
And then like it it culminated with like great speeches,
730
01:03:04.735 --> 01:03:07.190
know, from Rob, from the PDGA,
731
01:03:08.150 --> 01:03:08.950
recognizing
732
01:03:09.190 --> 01:03:15.430
Jen Allen getting into the Hall of Fame. Yeah, was With Nick's face up on the jumbotron the whole time. Nick's face just
733
01:03:15.670 --> 01:03:18.070
paused on the jumbotron the whole time.
734
01:03:18.550 --> 01:03:21.325
Yeah, so that's actually how I got introduced to Jen Allen
735
01:03:21.565 --> 01:03:24.125
was it was Thursday or Friday morning
736
01:03:24.445 --> 01:03:27.005
by the Lyft, and Scott was talking with Jen,
737
01:03:27.485 --> 01:03:34.285
and he chuckled and pointed at me. And so I I walked over and I I said, And she said she congratulated
738
01:03:34.285 --> 01:03:37.450
me on my in induction into the disc golf hall of fame.
739
01:03:37.770 --> 01:03:49.450
My face was on the screen when she got her induction. Yeah, that a whiff in that PowerPoint because they didn't have a slide for the hall of fame induction. So they did, I saw it, it was before
740
01:03:49.850 --> 01:04:01.035
the LOC introductions. Introductions. It was So it and it just kinda got breezed over and then moved straight into LOC and it never made it to the right spot. Yeah. That's right. While while we're talking about Jennifer Allen's
741
01:04:01.035 --> 01:04:02.635
Hall of Fame induction,
742
01:04:03.275 --> 01:04:06.235
let's just talk about that for a for a moment because because
743
01:04:06.780 --> 01:04:12.940
that that moment with her being inducted into the Hall of Fame, that's actually a historical moment because because
744
01:04:13.100 --> 01:04:14.220
the PDGA
745
01:04:14.220 --> 01:04:16.460
Hall of Fame has never
746
01:04:16.620 --> 01:04:17.980
done an induction
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01:04:18.220 --> 01:04:21.100
outside of their normal induction ceremony,
748
01:04:21.100 --> 01:04:22.755
which is which happens
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01:04:23.075 --> 01:04:25.235
at the IDGC in
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01:04:25.715 --> 01:04:26.835
Appling, Georgia.
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01:04:27.075 --> 01:04:34.755
And this was the first time because they wanted to start doing this at US Women's Disc Golf Championship to induct
752
01:04:36.275 --> 01:04:37.475
the women class early.
753
01:04:38.010 --> 01:04:38.650
So
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01:04:38.810 --> 01:04:47.610
that's that's how her week started, and and how it and how it finished was actually quite a tale in and of itself. She got an Albatres on
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01:04:47.690 --> 01:04:49.050
round two,
756
01:04:49.610 --> 01:04:52.625
which was wild on Hole 16, a 466
757
01:04:52.625 --> 01:04:58.465
foot shot on on Hole 16, and then and then she had a a pretty epic
758
01:04:59.105 --> 01:05:05.265
finale on the final round, which we might be able to get into a little bit later. And we can't skip over the fact that she
759
01:05:05.665 --> 01:05:06.545
toed
760
01:05:06.545 --> 01:05:07.105
hole 5.
761
01:05:08.140 --> 01:05:18.700
Yeah. Right. Two two hold five. Wait. She eagled Hole 5? Yeah. In in the same round. In the same round she aced on 16. She got an eagle and an albatross. An eagle on Hole 5. So apparently,
762
01:05:19.580 --> 01:05:26.805
one of the one of the local from the community was cadding on that card and Yeah. Our boy Brian. Mhmm. Yeah.
763
01:05:27.125 --> 01:05:28.005
And he
764
01:05:28.325 --> 01:05:32.965
said that the first day she put it to like two feet on Hole 16.
765
01:05:33.365 --> 01:05:37.285
And the second day as she's walking up to the tee, she said audibly,
766
01:05:37.605 --> 01:05:39.285
man, this would be a dream ace for me.
767
01:05:40.120 --> 01:05:40.920
Throw,
768
01:05:41.320 --> 01:05:50.760
crash. Well, you missed a part. She walked up to the tee and she said, this would be a dream ace. She threw the disc and out of the hand,
769
01:05:51.080 --> 01:05:51.960
she said, that's in.
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01:05:52.815 --> 01:05:53.455
I
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01:05:54.015 --> 01:05:56.415
love seeing the spotter reaction too
772
01:05:56.975 --> 01:05:57.775
when
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01:05:58.415 --> 01:06:03.775
it was tracking for it. Because you can see it on the video. I think it's just a cell phone video that got taken, but
774
01:06:04.415 --> 01:06:21.065
spotter is tracking the shot, and then his arms start going up, and then it hits the chains, and his arms go straight up in the air, and he, like, loses his mind. Yeah. And then she runs it down, which is pretty cool. And then and then horn blow right after that. Rain delay rain delay right after that. Right
775
01:06:21.465 --> 01:06:25.785
after that. So so the card behind her had just gotten their tee shots off,
776
01:06:26.265 --> 01:06:33.260
and and they they had to they headed down the the mountain. So she she came off the mountain and saw me within, like, ten
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01:06:33.580 --> 01:06:34.700
minutes of
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01:06:34.940 --> 01:06:42.460
of that happening and she just, you know, she kinda nudged me and was like, did you see did you see what I did? I was like, yeah Jan, I did. Holy shit.
779
01:06:43.580 --> 01:06:48.365
Wait. So question, did she find out about her hall hall of fame induction
780
01:06:48.685 --> 01:07:19.985
at opening ceremonies? Was that her finding out? Yeah. Yeah. And and and she told me that that she kind of because because she she mentioned that that slide came early. Uh-huh. And so and so she saw that early and she was just like, oh, oh, that might be me. Uh-huh. So it's pretty awesome. Cool. Because, you know, she's she's an incredible woman who has done amazing things in the sport and she absolutely deserves it and it's it's it was awesome to see her get recognized in front of all the women. And and and what a great pivot by the PDGA to to
781
01:07:20.145 --> 01:07:25.025
move up their hall of fame induction to to that event because,
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01:07:25.345 --> 01:07:35.210
you know, like, these hall of fame induction ceremonies, I went to one once, and there was, like, 30 or 40 people there. And because it's at it's it's it's in the backyard of the IDGC
783
01:07:35.210 --> 01:07:43.690
and there's not a ton of people there for it. And to have it during an opening ceremony of a of a major where all the women are there supporting each other,
784
01:07:44.010 --> 01:07:47.985
absolutely the right call and kudos to the PDGA for for for making that pivot.
785
01:07:48.225 --> 01:07:55.985
Yeah. I mean, and there was almost I mean, in comparison to having 30 people there, there was probably close to 500 people there between competitors
786
01:07:55.985 --> 01:08:03.550
and staff and caddies and the kimonos and families. Yeah. Like, there was probably 500 people in that room when she got inducted and that
787
01:08:03.870 --> 01:08:10.190
was a really cool moment. Yeah. And I just have to step back for one second and talk about
788
01:08:10.590 --> 01:08:12.510
the showing of the documentary,
789
01:08:12.990 --> 01:08:14.190
No Girls Allowed,
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01:08:14.430 --> 01:08:17.255
and then the panel after the documentary.
791
01:08:20.855 --> 01:08:24.055
From then on I was on the verge of tears all weekend.
792
01:08:24.535 --> 01:08:25.575
In a good way,
793
01:08:26.215 --> 01:08:29.900
felt like it was such a special moment to have those
794
01:08:30.060 --> 01:08:32.060
founding women of disc golf
795
01:08:32.540 --> 01:08:33.260
and
796
01:08:33.500 --> 01:08:37.100
I got to interact with Cheryl Newland several times throughout the week.
797
01:08:37.820 --> 01:08:43.295
When we were trying to get everything set up for player packs Brody and I were on stickers where
798
01:08:44.015 --> 01:08:52.095
every competitor got three individual stickers that had their name and their their PDJ number and their division that they competed in and like The US women's logo.
799
01:08:52.735 --> 01:08:58.030
And they kinda got shuffled a little bit in the truck on the way there and Cheryl
800
01:08:58.030 --> 01:09:00.030
PDGA number 76,
801
01:09:00.350 --> 01:09:04.589
right, she is waiting in line and then she steps up and she's like,
802
01:09:05.310 --> 01:09:20.730
hand me a stack of those, I'll help. And then within ten minutes she was like, she took over and sorted all of the stickers and three fifty competitors times three stickers each. Mean she sorted over a thousand stickers in alphabetical order for us.
803
01:09:21.290 --> 01:09:28.649
And just with a smile on her face and she's like, Oh yeah, I used to be a monastery school teacher and I used to have to do this all the time. So she just like
804
01:09:29.530 --> 01:09:30.330
did it.
805
01:09:30.730 --> 01:09:32.970
Then to see her on the panel was really cool. And
806
01:09:34.535 --> 01:09:36.694
it was interesting for me to
807
01:09:36.935 --> 01:09:38.214
hear Julianna
808
01:09:38.535 --> 01:09:39.575
talk about
809
01:09:39.735 --> 01:09:41.975
some of those first US women's
810
01:09:42.294 --> 01:09:42.855
and
811
01:09:43.255 --> 01:09:44.935
how she made the decision
812
01:09:45.175 --> 01:09:49.740
on the second time around to go to USW or USDGC
813
01:09:49.740 --> 01:09:51.179
and play with the men
814
01:09:51.500 --> 01:09:53.899
and how she felt guilty
815
01:09:54.060 --> 01:09:56.060
about that to this day.
816
01:09:56.459 --> 01:10:06.595
And it was really awesome to see the other women both on the panel and you could tell like in the audience everybody was like, you have no reason to feel guilty. Like what you did
817
01:10:07.155 --> 01:10:15.154
propelled the sport forward in a bigger way than if you had come and played with the women that year. And it was just a really cool,
818
01:10:16.115 --> 01:10:16.595
I don't know,
819
01:10:17.530 --> 01:10:21.530
It was special. That whole thing was really special. Yeah. And that's on YouTube.
820
01:10:21.770 --> 01:10:30.265
It was post produced by the Steady Initiative, and you can find it on their YouTube channel. So if you wanna go check out that panel and the documentary,
821
01:10:31.385 --> 01:10:35.785
we can link that in the show in the show notes. Yeah. I'll also say I heard
822
01:10:36.585 --> 01:10:40.265
dozens of compliments about those stickers, those personalized stickers,
823
01:10:40.920 --> 01:10:47.400
And going into it, I had my my own doubts like, oh, is is anybody gonna care? What what's this grand
824
01:10:49.560 --> 01:10:54.920
slam home run with those stickers? Really cool personal touch to all the players.
825
01:10:55.320 --> 01:11:09.685
Absolutely. And the volunteers. I mean, was at the sticker party. I I was cutting those stickers up. Yeah. And it was like you were just kinda running through and next thing you know, just started like, oh, wait. I recognize that. Oh, that's me. Yeah. Oh, wait. That's me. And then you were just like, I'm getting one of these.
826
01:11:10.350 --> 01:11:13.629
So But it's spelled wrong. Yeah. My name's spelled wrong. What the hell?
827
01:11:14.109 --> 01:11:20.509
Scott? But Was it really? No. No. No. It wasn't. That's that's just a running joke between me and Sean. Running joke because I always
828
01:11:20.990 --> 01:11:33.985
mess up his name. He always botches my last name. I always get confused One two three e's. Because because we have two Sean Kellys in in the disc golf community. One of them has two e's, and one of them has one one e, and I always get confused on who has the two e's.
829
01:11:37.540 --> 01:11:43.620
Sean has the two e's. Oh, the two e's. Yes. That's a very accurate statement. Two e's gross. Yeah.
830
01:11:44.580 --> 01:11:50.615
I know. See? Yeah. The Sean Kelly is Now I two e's. Right? Now everybody's confused. See? Welcome to my world.
831
01:11:52.375 --> 01:11:54.855
Okay. So opening ceremonies goes off
832
01:11:55.655 --> 01:11:57.734
from all for all counts and purposes
833
01:11:58.135 --> 01:12:03.815
phenomenally. Mhmm. Right? Yeah. No problems at all except except for except for
834
01:12:04.360 --> 01:12:11.000
the food department showed up and took the temperature of of the salad The salad. And it was, like, five degrees too warm.
835
01:12:11.400 --> 01:12:14.279
So that was a chaotic moment in the kitchen.
836
01:12:15.080 --> 01:12:22.145
But see, it's like nobody knows about that because it doesn't matter because because they're just, you know, showing up and doing their job. So
837
01:12:22.625 --> 01:12:26.625
Yeah. And it was fun to see the Wallace's there, Wilbur and mom.
838
01:12:26.625 --> 01:12:41.399
Mhmm. When I introduced myself to her, I asked, you know, what her name was and she's like, oh, everybody just calls me mom. I'm just mom. And so the rest of the time I just I would come in and check on her and say, mom, are you doing alright? Hey, mom. And she got to hang out with Brian Bowling and do like check-in
839
01:12:41.640 --> 01:12:42.280
for And
840
01:12:43.400 --> 01:12:45.160
that was just a really cool
841
01:12:46.515 --> 01:12:50.035
circle moment for US women's I feel like to have them here.
842
01:12:51.314 --> 01:12:54.995
So opening ceremonies goes off mostly without a hitch.
843
01:12:56.515 --> 01:12:58.274
Thursday morning gets there.
844
01:12:58.915 --> 01:13:01.959
We have competition at three of the four courses,
845
01:13:02.200 --> 01:13:04.439
Brighton, Creekside, and Roots.
846
01:13:05.880 --> 01:13:07.399
We get up to Brighton
847
01:13:08.600 --> 01:13:09.399
and
848
01:13:12.175 --> 01:13:22.254
what was the energy like on the mountain that morning? Well, it was kind of first of all, our tee times were an hour later than we thought they were going to be.
849
01:13:22.895 --> 01:13:24.495
Tee times were posted
850
01:13:24.910 --> 01:13:26.670
during the player ceremonies,
851
01:13:26.670 --> 01:13:28.910
I think that we must have got our wires crossed
852
01:13:29.710 --> 01:13:31.390
with the PDGA.
853
01:13:31.390 --> 01:13:34.910
And so tee time started at 08:30, and then we had
854
01:13:35.710 --> 01:13:40.485
almost like an hour and twenty minutes of tee time breaks throughout the day.
855
01:13:41.685 --> 01:13:46.245
So that had our lead card going off at 03:30. So already, I I was a little bit stressed out because
856
01:13:46.965 --> 01:13:51.925
03:30 was a late is kind of a late start for Brighton with a with a production crew up there. So,
857
01:13:53.530 --> 01:14:05.450
yeah, I was a little stressed out about that. I was a little bit stressed about about players not getting to their tee times on time. There's there's there's always construction up up Little Cottonwood Canyon or sorry, Big Cottonwood Canyon. And
858
01:14:07.564 --> 01:14:19.165
but I think I think leading up to it, I was stressed enough over the over the month leading up to it that I was able to communicate effectively to the players that, you know, they need to give themselves ample time.
859
01:14:20.200 --> 01:14:29.639
But, yeah, the logistics of of of starting it, getting you know, making sure that that that the volunteer coordinators were set and ready, the merch tents went up.
860
01:14:30.280 --> 01:14:33.319
There was definitely an an energy there that that,
861
01:14:35.115 --> 01:14:37.915
you know, we got we got all those tents set up on Thursday
862
01:14:38.315 --> 01:14:46.235
at the base, and we got merch set up on Thursday at the base. And and we didn't we didn't we didn't know what we didn't know until
863
01:14:46.810 --> 01:15:00.810
we knew it, which was, okay, we can stage some stuff in Molly's Green. You know, we can so we don't have to huff stuff up and down every day. Right? Because those first you know, Thursday was all about moving stuff from the parking lot up and getting everything staged
864
01:15:00.810 --> 01:15:01.130
there.
865
01:15:02.525 --> 01:15:11.325
So yeah, I think and then we also had to get all the tents up. We hadn't put up any tents because we didn't want the liability of those tents being up on non competition days.
866
01:15:11.805 --> 01:15:24.189
And then we had to get the VIP thing set up. So there was a lot of frenetic energy Thursday morning getting that going because there was still some ops that had to be done. And that that's at the crack of dawn. Right? Oh, yeah. That was, like, 06:30AM.
867
01:15:24.189 --> 01:15:25.870
Yeah. It was yeah. It was early.
868
01:15:26.109 --> 01:15:30.029
Yeah. I mean, it was to a point where I think, like, every morning we saw a moose,
869
01:15:30.510 --> 01:15:43.205
like, out in the parking lot or just like grazing off in one of like the little marsh areas by the parking lot. Yep. Getting their day started. Just like Every morning you were just like, where's the moose? Oh, there they are. Right over there. Like, mean, like, it's early. Moose is still out.
870
01:15:43.930 --> 01:15:53.049
It's fresh after that Yosemite clip going viral. In my mind, I'm thinking, my god. Of the guy getting tossed? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man.
871
01:15:53.529 --> 01:15:54.410
Thankfully,
872
01:15:54.410 --> 01:15:55.849
nothing like that happened.
873
01:15:56.330 --> 01:16:00.315
Although there was maybe a little scare that we'll get to on
874
01:16:00.315 --> 01:16:12.890
day three, I believe. Or yeah. I think it was day three that I had. It was day three. Yeah. So yeah. Yeah. Competition went off pretty pretty good for the morning. We were able to get f p f p 40 off the course and I think Jen had a pretty good round there.
875
01:16:14.330 --> 01:16:14.810
And
876
01:16:15.610 --> 01:16:16.890
FPO had
877
01:16:19.050 --> 01:16:21.450
just teed off at 03:30 when
878
01:16:21.770 --> 01:16:29.544
the 03:30 storms hit. Well well, they hadn't quite teed off No. When when it hit. Yeah. Lead Chase card
879
01:16:29.865 --> 01:16:31.145
had teed off,
880
01:16:32.265 --> 01:16:33.784
and that was it.
881
01:16:34.105 --> 01:16:40.100
And then lead lead card didn't even didn't even get to the t pad. Yeah. Because I remember it was
882
01:16:40.500 --> 01:16:42.020
Owen had just thrown,
883
01:16:42.180 --> 01:16:50.855
and then they decided not to walk because I think Phil was right there being like, I'm gonna blow the horn. Yeah. So they just kinda grabbed their stuff and, you know, like, we're not walking anywhere.
884
01:16:53.015 --> 01:16:54.694
But, yeah, I mean, that was kinda like
885
01:16:55.495 --> 01:16:57.415
that was the first kinda like
886
01:16:57.814 --> 01:16:59.415
small punch to the gut
887
01:16:59.734 --> 01:17:04.270
where it was like, I'm showing up. We got, you know, like
888
01:17:05.390 --> 01:17:34.070
it was just like all all the crowd control guys were up there, everyone's just like a little bit nervous. Be like, alright. This is what we're gonna do. We're just keep talking plans. We're talking about holes. You know, like, this is what we're gonna do for this. You remember with this, do you know where you're going after this? Like, and it was just kinda like, let's just make sure it runs smoothly the first time. So like Like that little bit of anticipation. Yeah. Yeah. It was just kinda like, it wasn't necessarily like being scared or anything. It was just like, I just wanted to start. So like, we're in the flow. We're doing it. We're moving.
889
01:17:34.310 --> 01:17:37.030
And it was just kinda like that, like, because
890
01:17:38.070 --> 01:17:40.790
like, you know, Derek and his crew,
891
01:17:41.590 --> 01:17:46.285
like, they were all staged ready to start going and then it was just like, like,
892
01:17:47.485 --> 01:17:48.605
was just like, alright.
893
01:17:48.925 --> 01:18:05.660
So then it was just like, alright, cool. Here we go. And that's when and everyone did respond pretty well. Like, will say, like, as frustrating as it was with those first three days of just like rain delays and people at the top of the mountain and, you know, tell them they gotta go down to Snake Creek or actually goes down all the way to the bottom,
894
01:18:06.860 --> 01:18:09.180
you know, it's
895
01:18:08.865 --> 01:18:12.225
not an easy thing to say to somebody like, hey, you gotta walk down.
896
01:18:12.465 --> 01:18:18.305
And then when we're ready, we'll tell you to walk back up. Like, you can't get down the lift. You can't get this. Like, and so,
897
01:18:18.625 --> 01:18:29.570
you know, and then there wasn't a lot of pushback, you know, people who wanted to stay out, like, it didn't actually rain that hard. It was just more of the lightning in the area for the first time. And then they came back out
898
01:18:29.970 --> 01:18:31.410
and, I mean,
899
01:18:31.810 --> 01:18:34.370
and then they were off and lead card made it to
900
01:18:34.770 --> 01:18:35.730
literally hole four.
901
01:18:36.925 --> 01:18:40.605
And they had thrown their upshots on the hole four and then,
902
01:18:41.245 --> 01:18:55.110
yeah, a horn blows again. Mhmm. They marked their lies and then it was, know, alright back into this and you're just kinda like, oh man, this is, you know, this is the taste I didn't want in my mouth like round one. Yeah. And that was like, like 05:00.
903
01:18:55.110 --> 01:18:58.150
Yeah. And it was late already and it had been pushed.
904
01:18:58.630 --> 01:19:04.790
And so then at that point was a big system rolling through too. Yeah. Then it rained, then it started raining and it became something.
905
01:19:05.565 --> 01:19:06.605
And so then
906
01:19:07.005 --> 01:19:10.205
basically it was just kinda like that, like, you know, sad,
907
01:19:10.445 --> 01:19:14.845
depressing feeling like walking down the mountain. Oh, yeah. In the rain,
908
01:19:15.165 --> 01:19:44.645
no less. Yeah. Yeah. And we're walking down the road and it's like all the players are being brought down in trucks and camera crew people being brought down in trucks and you're just kinda doing this lonely wet walk down a muddy road. Right. And you're just kinda like, man, like, just day one, you kinda wanted to like you just wanted to see it. Like, it's it was more just sad because you're like, I wanted to like watch this, you know? Right. Like, I wanted I wanted to just you've been planning for so long and you just wanted to be a part of it. You wanted it to like just fulfill itself.
909
01:19:44.965 --> 01:19:49.709
And so like that was kind of just a sad moment like that first night. Yeah, and the, when
910
01:19:50.430 --> 01:19:59.710
the lift got spinning back up at the top, was on the first chair out of there because I had a feeling that they were gonna, I had a feeling that this was gonna go again, and I just wanted to be down. Yeah.
911
01:20:00.825 --> 01:20:10.345
I got stuff to do. Like, I have logistics to do, and I can't just be up here waiting around in a yurt. Yeah. So when they called it, I was already
912
01:20:11.145 --> 01:20:11.705
down
913
01:20:12.425 --> 01:20:20.799
in the Alpine Rows with my laptop up, already looking at communications, already starting to think about tomorrow, and I was in there with Alan Risley and
914
01:20:21.200 --> 01:20:24.399
from the PDGA, who was our event support
915
01:20:24.640 --> 01:20:25.439
manager, who
916
01:20:26.160 --> 01:20:28.480
if you don't know Alan, you should. He's
917
01:20:28.480 --> 01:20:29.200
a wonderful human,
918
01:20:30.095 --> 01:20:31.935
full of full of life and love.
919
01:20:33.055 --> 01:20:56.520
And I was down there with him and and he, you know, he came up and, you know, said, hey, how's it going? And in that moment, it's just like all these emotions of of just the the build up of this event and doing opening ceremonies and moving everything and getting everything set up only to have lead card be pushed to tomorrow. It just it just crushed me. I was very emotional. Yeah. Tearing up with him, you know, just having a having a moment,
920
01:20:57.695 --> 01:20:58.895
you know, and he
921
01:21:00.335 --> 01:21:02.255
assured me, you know, it's
922
01:21:02.255 --> 01:21:07.375
fine, you know, we're just gonna we're gonna have him tee off in the morning, we're gonna have some lunch,
923
01:21:07.695 --> 01:21:10.254
and we're gonna have him tee off in the afternoon,
924
01:21:10.575 --> 01:21:11.679
and everything
925
01:21:12.160 --> 01:21:15.919
will be fine. We're gonna get four rounds done. Just relax and
926
01:21:16.399 --> 01:21:17.759
appreciate the process.
927
01:21:19.040 --> 01:21:19.919
He
928
01:21:21.600 --> 01:21:26.080
definitely laid it on thick that
929
01:21:24.555 --> 01:21:30.794
I'm doing a great job and we're doing a great job of controlling everything that we can, and we cannot control mother nature.
930
01:21:31.995 --> 01:21:32.634
Yeah.
931
01:21:34.475 --> 01:21:36.955
Before all of the the weather delays,
932
01:21:38.155 --> 01:21:42.339
I had the opportunity so Scott had reached out to LLC
933
01:21:42.899 --> 01:21:44.819
the week before and said,
934
01:21:45.299 --> 01:22:00.994
hey we need stack keepers for every FPO card. We need if you know anybody who wants to stack keep, like let me know. And so because Dragonfly wasn't being used Thursday, Friday, I was like, yeah, put me on, I'll take the first one out, and then if you need me again in the afternoon, I'll take a second one as well.
935
01:22:01.475 --> 01:22:04.994
And so I had, you know, volunteered for the first card not knowing
936
01:22:05.155 --> 01:22:07.475
who was gonna be on the card or whatever,
937
01:22:08.115 --> 01:22:13.359
and I had such a fun time stat keeping because it was it was Paige Pierce,
938
01:22:13.840 --> 01:22:17.040
Kona Montgomery and Kat Murch. And it was just a three top.
939
01:22:17.680 --> 01:22:22.239
And tell tell you what, some of the stuff that comes out of Kat Murch's mouth is
940
01:22:22.560 --> 01:22:23.839
wild in
941
01:22:23.840 --> 01:22:24.705
the best way.
942
01:22:25.105 --> 01:22:29.584
Paige's caddy had a nasty sunburn on the front of his legs and
943
01:22:30.785 --> 01:22:33.024
he showed everybody on hole three.
944
01:22:33.265 --> 01:22:35.185
And she turns and she says,
945
01:22:35.584 --> 01:22:38.880
Well, damn, dude. You got straight barbecued.
946
01:22:39.920 --> 01:22:42.480
And that just set the tone for for that whole round.
947
01:22:43.040 --> 01:22:47.120
And and we were able to get finished before the lightning delays.
948
01:22:47.440 --> 01:22:53.035
And so I I made it back to the top while Ohn was teeing off horn sounds,
949
01:22:53.435 --> 01:22:55.115
walked down to Snake Creek,
950
01:22:56.235 --> 01:22:58.794
and then I made the unfortunate decision
951
01:22:58.795 --> 01:23:00.235
to walk back up
952
01:23:00.555 --> 01:23:07.669
to Hole 1 after the delay. That was a hike. Oh man, that thing is, that is a steep hill.
953
01:23:07.910 --> 01:23:15.270
And I went back the same way that we went down, which was just straight down off the left side of Hole 1 that is, it is very steep.
954
01:23:19.174 --> 01:23:20.455
At But Snake Creek,
955
01:23:21.095 --> 01:23:24.694
it was kind of a vibe. The vibe was high. I was there too.
956
01:23:25.495 --> 01:23:34.149
Mason Ford and Valerie Mondohano were telling stories at their table. I think Raven was there. She's funny. And everybody's laughing.
957
01:23:34.390 --> 01:23:38.870
People are playing catch disc. Yeah. Sam Ward is is hucking
958
01:23:39.110 --> 01:23:42.709
discs up to the tree and target practice and I mean
959
01:23:43.190 --> 01:23:46.710
Yeah. We had a distance comp with a Franklin
960
01:23:47.425 --> 01:23:48.225
frisbee.
961
01:23:48.225 --> 01:23:58.465
Like a disc golf disc that was super flippy that Aaron Lael had brought. The vibe could have turned at that point and there you know you're used to hearing people start to complain,
962
01:23:59.025 --> 01:24:01.105
people kind of bitching and moaning and
963
01:24:01.265 --> 01:24:05.870
there was none of that. No. None. No. Yeah. And it was just,
964
01:24:06.430 --> 01:24:09.870
you know, it yeah. It sucks that the weather delay happened,
965
01:24:10.189 --> 01:24:19.084
but there was not a more beautiful place maybe on the planet to have weather delay. Oh. Nice nice and quiet and and and private.
966
01:24:19.405 --> 01:24:21.244
Scenic. Yeah. Yeah.
967
01:24:21.484 --> 01:24:23.804
And then I will say on that hike back up,
968
01:24:24.524 --> 01:24:29.564
my fiance and I were starting to hike up and we were at the back of the pack. We were some of the last people hiking up.
969
01:24:30.630 --> 01:24:40.710
Out of nowhere comes Rob Bolin in his car, in his SUV. With a bucket hat. With a bucket hat and he's picking people up and we got we ended up getting a ride but I think that was part of the,
970
01:24:42.564 --> 01:24:56.885
you know kudos to staying nimble and pivoting and and problem solving on you know on your feet and that became part of the action plan I believe the the next couple of days. They kind of knew, oh this is very helpful
971
01:24:57.660 --> 01:25:01.740
to get people up in cars instead of having to walk that
972
01:25:02.140 --> 01:25:06.780
straight up. The death hike. Yeah. And so just kudos to the team for
973
01:25:07.500 --> 01:25:15.325
adjusting and figuring out and problem solving along the way. Yeah. And pivoting like I think that that that word has been used a lot,
974
01:25:15.885 --> 01:25:20.685
and it makes me think of friends where Pivot. Yeah. Pivot. Pivot. When it came to the the
975
01:25:21.005 --> 01:25:26.045
couch or whatever. But Well, yeah. I think the real pivot moment of the whole tournament
976
01:25:26.365 --> 01:25:29.850
was when Rob Boland took off the USW
977
01:25:29.850 --> 01:25:35.370
GGC staff shirt after the first day. And then every other day, he was in a party shirt.
978
01:25:36.570 --> 01:25:38.970
Like, the moment he was in a party shirt, like,
979
01:25:39.370 --> 01:25:56.265
I equated it to, like, have you guys ever been on a vacation in like an all inclusive resort or like at a hotel where you just kinda see another patron that's staying in, like, there's that guy again. You know, and you know, you look at him, you're like, he's having the funnest time. Look at this guy, like, you just because you're you're kind of in that same week of vacation or something.
980
01:25:57.020 --> 01:26:00.140
But it was one of those moments where, like, the first day
981
01:26:00.540 --> 01:26:16.105
you saw Rob and he was in, like, go go go mode and then, you know, then you'd see him and, like, next thing you know, once he was in a party shirt, like, he was still running everything, but he just was in this lighter mood. He had a bucket hat on. But you just run into him random parts and he's just like, hey, man. How's it going? Like,
982
01:26:16.265 --> 01:26:20.745
I you'd you'd be bringing lead car down, you know. At one point, both
983
01:26:21.145 --> 01:26:23.705
Rob and Ben were sitting in the chairs.
984
01:26:24.600 --> 01:26:38.360
The Adirondack chairs. Yeah. The party shirt. And they just say, hey, Sean. And I turn around and both of them are like legs crossed, drinking their hand, and both in party shirts and bucket hats. And I'm like, these two guys are enjoying themselves way too much. Did did you see did you see that did you see that that
985
01:26:38.985 --> 01:26:41.385
Instagram video that that Ben posted
986
01:26:41.625 --> 01:26:42.265
with
987
01:26:42.585 --> 01:26:46.825
it was is that that moment It was that moment. Where where they're they're watching
988
01:26:47.305 --> 01:26:53.625
they're watching OWN throw a forehand down that hole, and then and then it pans to then he pans to Rob,
989
01:26:54.340 --> 01:26:57.540
and Ben says Ben says, hey, Rob, what do you think about that?
990
01:26:57.860 --> 01:26:58.339
And
991
01:26:59.380 --> 01:27:00.259
and Rob says,
992
01:27:00.980 --> 01:27:02.259
I think that's nice.
993
01:27:03.780 --> 01:27:07.300
Think that's nice. With like a with like a head nod and just like, I
994
01:27:08.385 --> 01:27:15.825
there's yeah. I didn't I didn't realize it was possible for me to love another man like like like I like I love Rob. I think there's
995
01:27:15.905 --> 01:27:19.265
he's he's found his way into the inner part of my heart.
996
01:27:19.745 --> 01:27:27.100
And I I just adore I adore that man. Yeah. He's he's he's wholesome. He's honest.
997
01:27:27.260 --> 01:27:29.020
He he's integris.
998
01:27:29.980 --> 01:27:32.459
Passionate. He's passionate. He works his ass off.
999
01:27:32.860 --> 01:27:33.740
He's
1000
01:27:33.740 --> 01:27:34.860
he's transparent.
1001
01:27:36.195 --> 01:27:37.155
He's very compliment
1002
01:27:37.555 --> 01:27:38.755
mentative too.
1003
01:27:38.835 --> 01:27:41.475
Like, def like, shows appreciation,
1004
01:27:41.795 --> 01:27:44.435
you know, for someone to be, like, at the top where, like,
1005
01:27:44.915 --> 01:28:04.915
with with all the chaos and stuff that was, you know, happening and everything running around where, like, he'd always have a moment to, like, sit there and just be like, I just wanna say, like, thank you. Like, I really appreciate appreciate what you're doing. He's like, yeah. Well, like, have I ever told you, like, like, love you? Like, you know, he just had those moments, like, so many times and just kinda like,
1006
01:28:05.955 --> 01:28:08.675
you know. He's a he's a cool cucumber
1007
01:28:08.995 --> 01:28:13.475
Yeah. In those high pressure moments. And he loves disc golf so much.
1008
01:28:13.955 --> 01:28:33.879
Well, yeah, I'm glad I'm glad you got to see, like, the cool the coolness because because because I don't I I didn't see that as much because because because we're on the same level on with this event, you know, peers. And so he'd call me, and I'd have to level him out. You know? Like like, I I there was many times where
1009
01:28:34.005 --> 01:28:37.925
during the week where where he would call me just, like,
1010
01:28:38.725 --> 01:28:41.925
really upset about something or really
1011
01:28:41.925 --> 01:29:11.805
nervous about something or really, you know, like, needed to needing to figure something out or upset upset with with some staff or upset with things and, you know, I had to I had to level them out and that's not really something that I typically do because I'm usually the one that needs to be leveled out. So it was it was good to be it was good to be in the position where I could just, you know, take a breath and just be like, okay. Alright. Let's go. And then, know, he'd level me out too. You know? So we we were a really good team. I think the I think that the support system between
1012
01:29:12.205 --> 01:29:13.645
you, Ben, and Rob,
1013
01:29:14.840 --> 01:29:33.284
Like, you guy you guys meshed really well. Oh, yeah. You you could one part, like, you could see I I feel like all three you could kinda see, like, in those moments you're talking about where, like, alright. I need to jump in and do this, and I need to fill in this, and this and this. Like, all the weights on Scott now, or all the weights on Rob, or all the weight's on Ben. And it was just like, alright.
1014
01:29:34.004 --> 01:29:43.605
You guys, like, consciously saw that. Oh, Our three minds melded. Yeah. And you guys became one. We became one. Where it was like, alright. Here we are. You know,
1015
01:29:45.020 --> 01:29:55.259
you know, like there was moments where it was just like, alright, Scott's calling the shots. Now Rob's calling the shots. Now Ben's calling the shots. Yeah. We were the three headed dragon. Yeah. And What's that called? What's that?
1016
01:29:56.314 --> 01:29:59.114
What's the three headed dragon called? Fantasy.
1017
01:30:02.314 --> 01:30:03.834
There's a Hydra?
1018
01:30:03.834 --> 01:30:06.234
Yeah. I think it's a I think it's a Hydra. Yeah.
1019
01:30:06.635 --> 01:30:07.194
Yeah.
1020
01:30:07.754 --> 01:30:10.750
Yeah. There's a mythological mythological three headed dragon.
1021
01:30:11.709 --> 01:30:14.509
Yeah. Yeah. That's what we are. Powerful.
1022
01:30:14.590 --> 01:30:26.185
Powerful. Yes. No. It was it was recognizable and it was it was something you you observed and you could see. And like I said, it's just, you know, it's a recipe for success where like, you know, three people can
1023
01:30:27.305 --> 01:30:30.744
rather rather than, you know, shutting down and and and
1024
01:30:31.064 --> 01:30:37.010
pushing responsibility onto another person, the other person would pick up the slack and fill in where like, you know,
1025
01:30:37.650 --> 01:30:41.010
where it needed to be. And it just like I said, I think that was kind of a
1026
01:30:41.650 --> 01:30:47.010
an easy recipe for success Yeah. With you three at the helm. Yeah. So Thursday
1027
01:30:47.170 --> 01:30:56.304
Yeah. Brain delay. Yeah. We had to call it at about, I think at about 06:00 we decided to call it because there was just no way that we're gonna get back on the mountain.
1028
01:30:56.625 --> 01:31:05.569
So we left we left the players with the idea that that we're gonna move up tee times tomorrow, so we moved up tee times to 07:30. We we we corrected that day one mistake,
1029
01:31:06.370 --> 01:31:11.889
and we also removed some of the some of the blank tee times that we had for pace of play.
1030
01:31:12.450 --> 01:31:18.005
We removed those, so that lead card would tee off around 02:00.
1031
01:31:18.965 --> 01:31:21.365
Chase would be off at about 02:00.
1032
01:31:21.445 --> 01:31:30.245
So that was a pivot from from day one. So that was our that was our big pivot for for Friday was move up the tee times, let's try to get as much done as we could,
1033
01:31:31.045 --> 01:31:35.100
and we didn't have enough time to be able to shuffle.
1034
01:31:35.660 --> 01:31:36.220
So
1035
01:31:36.540 --> 01:31:37.580
that morning,
1036
01:31:37.660 --> 01:31:40.140
Friday morning came and
1037
01:31:43.580 --> 01:31:46.700
lead card had to play, I think it was 34 holes. Right?
1038
01:31:47.254 --> 01:31:49.254
They had to play 34 holes that day.
1039
01:31:49.575 --> 01:32:07.459
And Owen went off on on that first round, shooting a 10 down. Course record 11 the first day. 11? First day? Or first round. First round. And then and then she she went to the parking lot and had a sandwich and a beer, and then went back and shot two strokes better for round two with the same card.
1040
01:32:08.340 --> 01:32:16.020
So that was just freaking epic. And that set the tone, because she was going into round three with an eight stroke lead.
1041
01:32:16.935 --> 01:32:17.495
And,
1042
01:32:17.895 --> 01:32:25.814
there was lots of storylines that came out of that Friday, but really there wasn't enough time to really digest them because it was so busy and frenetic.
1043
01:32:26.615 --> 01:32:30.135
And I was a little bit disappointed in the no shuffle because
1044
01:32:30.215 --> 01:32:31.255
we've
1045
01:32:31.255 --> 01:32:34.609
been working this this whole time to get some really good
1046
01:32:35.010 --> 01:32:46.935
coverage of the mountain. And so having round two have to be the same card was a little bit unfortunate, but that card would go on to be on, like, lead and chase card all weekend. So it was kind of like a
1047
01:32:47.735 --> 01:32:48.775
happy surprise.
1048
01:32:50.855 --> 01:32:53.255
And Kylie Cohut, you know, who's in our hearts,
1049
01:32:53.975 --> 01:32:57.095
was on chase cards, she got some really good coverage on that one too. And,
1050
01:32:58.880 --> 01:33:03.919
you know, like, it was awesome to see her in that position too. You know, they were staying here in this room
1051
01:33:04.320 --> 01:33:05.439
that we're recording,
1052
01:33:05.760 --> 01:33:08.720
and it was so awesome to see
1053
01:33:09.280 --> 01:33:16.105
her in that position. And she was, originally she was chosen by our LOC to be our featured local,
1054
01:33:16.425 --> 01:33:32.770
but we were told that we could only have one featured local, so we put Emily Yale up there. And so Kylie was actually an MVP pick because she is the second highest rated FPO player in the field. So she did not get there by a favorite pick. She got there on her own merit and her own right.
1055
01:33:33.649 --> 01:33:35.969
So that's that's a cool inside
1056
01:33:36.050 --> 01:33:38.850
piece of info. Yeah. I did not know that.
1057
01:33:40.209 --> 01:33:41.665
So yeah. So Friday,
1058
01:33:41.985 --> 01:33:49.505
the the first round finishes, I believe, without any delay. Right? Yep. Because it's the morning. Mhmm. Yep. We we had them
1059
01:33:50.305 --> 01:33:55.239
tee off before f p 40 would go off, so we kept f p forty's t times right.
1060
01:33:55.480 --> 01:33:59.720
We shotgun started it. We got them all to their holes and and just got it going.
1061
01:34:00.040 --> 01:34:01.799
We started the lift at at
1062
01:34:02.200 --> 01:34:07.640
we made that decision that that that night that we were going to start the lift at 06:15 every morning
1063
01:34:07.880 --> 01:34:14.425
just to get players up there at their leisure in the morning and everybody really liked it I think. I think people liked having that
1064
01:34:14.825 --> 01:34:21.545
lift running early in the morning. Yeah I think that was a good call. I know I got there around 06:00
1065
01:34:22.425 --> 01:34:23.385
and then
1066
01:34:24.390 --> 01:34:32.310
because of the pivot of all the storms and having vehicles up at the top was a good thing, I ended up leading a trail of trucks
1067
01:34:32.630 --> 01:34:36.950
in my little Subaru Outback. I think it was the smallest car that made it up that hill
1068
01:34:37.270 --> 01:34:37.910
all weekend.
1069
01:34:39.645 --> 01:34:41.324
Went up the hill,
1070
01:34:41.725 --> 01:34:43.804
parked by the VIP area,
1071
01:34:44.125 --> 01:34:45.804
walked to Hole 17,
1072
01:34:46.044 --> 01:34:48.605
stack kept for Katie Chachere's
1073
01:34:48.605 --> 01:34:50.685
card for the last couple holes.
1074
01:34:51.004 --> 01:34:57.600
Got to the bottom. John Ward was like, hey, can you take my truck up there too? So I drove John's truck up to the top,
1075
01:34:58.000 --> 01:34:59.679
stack kept on the way down,
1076
01:35:00.160 --> 01:35:06.320
and I didn't take the lift. I I took the lift one time out of the four times I made it up to the top of the mountain that day
1077
01:35:07.044 --> 01:35:10.804
and then was able to help shuttle people down during the lightning delays
1078
01:35:11.285 --> 01:35:13.844
that second day and then shuttle people back up.
1079
01:35:14.325 --> 01:35:15.685
And if you look closely,
1080
01:35:15.765 --> 01:35:19.764
if you look really closely when they mob golfed it on Hole 18
1081
01:35:20.245 --> 01:35:21.444
and they're putting out,
1082
01:35:22.120 --> 01:35:24.600
I think it's when Katrina Allen is putting.
1083
01:35:24.840 --> 01:35:30.280
You can see me in my Subaru because we had stopped there like to let them finish.
1084
01:35:30.680 --> 01:35:38.194
Like I was also wearing one of The US women's bucket hats cause those things rocked. And that's one my new favorite hats.
1085
01:35:38.595 --> 01:35:44.674
But I'm hanging out my window with my arm out just watching the action from my Subaru
1086
01:35:45.475 --> 01:35:47.395
on the final hole at like
1087
01:35:47.635 --> 01:35:51.560
08:00 at night or was like 06:30 I think at that point when that went off.
1088
01:35:52.120 --> 01:35:55.640
The mob golf thing was pretty exciting because there was
1089
01:35:58.360 --> 01:35:59.560
Friday was kind of
1090
01:35:59.960 --> 01:36:01.320
a hectic and energetic day.
1091
01:36:02.745 --> 01:36:03.625
We had
1092
01:36:04.665 --> 01:36:06.584
several delays that day and
1093
01:36:07.785 --> 01:36:09.864
it was a long day on the mountain
1094
01:36:10.905 --> 01:36:11.625
because
1095
01:36:13.945 --> 01:36:14.745
the way
1096
01:36:15.705 --> 01:36:20.870
that the energy works in monsoon season is is the humidity the humidity rises.
1097
01:36:21.030 --> 01:36:33.504
There's a lot of there's a lot of of moisture being pushed in from the gulf, and it fills up the valley, and then it gets really hot down the Valley. And so it kind of bakes the moisture off and up into the atmosphere.
1098
01:36:33.665 --> 01:36:37.504
And then these peaks up top, these 10,000 foot peaks,
1099
01:36:37.825 --> 01:36:44.305
they act as a giant heat sink, and they pull all this moisture towards them. And when that happens, it creates,
1100
01:36:44.785 --> 01:36:45.265
energy.
1101
01:36:45.750 --> 01:36:52.550
And so every day around 03:30 during monsoon season you can expect thunderstorms
1102
01:36:52.550 --> 01:36:53.830
around these peaks.
1103
01:36:54.230 --> 01:36:54.790
So
1104
01:36:55.110 --> 01:36:57.590
it was pretty frustrating for us and we had,
1105
01:36:58.205 --> 01:37:02.044
you know, we had the PDGA the PDGA here who uses
1106
01:37:02.285 --> 01:37:04.044
the My Lightning app
1107
01:37:04.365 --> 01:37:06.044
app to determine
1108
01:37:06.445 --> 01:37:10.925
safety, and then they've got a pretty hard and fast rule on on
1109
01:37:11.245 --> 01:37:12.925
lightning within a 15 mile radius.
1110
01:37:13.600 --> 01:37:15.200
And initially,
1111
01:37:15.440 --> 01:37:18.400
weeks ago, I thought this is gonna be a problem because,
1112
01:37:19.840 --> 01:37:29.520
a, it's monsoon season, and b, their 15 mile radius from the top of of a mountain is basically a 50 mile radius because it it it covers
1113
01:37:29.895 --> 01:37:34.375
basically all of Heber Valley, and then all the way into Midvale from the top of that mountain.
1114
01:37:34.615 --> 01:37:37.494
So meaning if there's if there's valley thunderstorms,
1115
01:37:37.495 --> 01:37:38.774
we're gonna have to pause,
1116
01:37:39.015 --> 01:37:43.174
you know? And so that was already kind of a point of contention between us because
1117
01:37:44.629 --> 01:37:47.989
their their rules are written specifically for
1118
01:37:48.230 --> 01:37:51.029
to cover to cover their ass in every situation.
1119
01:37:51.430 --> 01:37:56.550
And most of the places that that they play when thunderstorms roll through, they're giant thunderstorms
1120
01:37:56.550 --> 01:38:02.045
that they come in and like like a Midwestern thunderstorm is totally different than a High Desert thunderstorm.
1121
01:38:02.045 --> 01:38:05.005
Right? High Desert thunderstorm is quick, it moves fast,
1122
01:38:05.405 --> 01:38:07.325
and it gets out of the way.
1123
01:38:07.645 --> 01:38:13.449
But a Midwestern thunderstorm in the middle of July can blanket a 200 mile radius. They're giant.
1124
01:38:13.689 --> 01:38:17.129
So I kinda I kinda already knew that this was gonna be an issue,
1125
01:38:17.530 --> 01:38:20.089
and it it certainly was. And
1126
01:38:20.810 --> 01:38:27.370
you could absolutely feel the the the pressure that existed on on PDGA staff during this time because
1127
01:38:27.725 --> 01:38:34.285
they're caught in a rock between a rock and a hard place. They need to be able to make a safety call for their players and and staff
1128
01:38:34.445 --> 01:38:35.165
and
1129
01:38:35.565 --> 01:38:37.805
volunteers and spectators,
1130
01:38:38.045 --> 01:38:39.725
but at the same time, they need to execute
1131
01:38:40.170 --> 01:38:41.530
the play of a major.
1132
01:38:41.930 --> 01:38:44.890
And they are bound by the rules of
1133
01:38:45.610 --> 01:38:47.850
that govern them for their insurance policy.
1134
01:38:48.490 --> 01:38:55.455
And their insurance policy is this huge multimillion dollar thing that that involves all of the sanctioned events across the world.
1135
01:38:55.695 --> 01:38:56.254
So
1136
01:38:57.455 --> 01:39:01.695
that was tricky. That that was a really tricky thing to navigate, the interpersonal
1137
01:39:01.695 --> 01:39:02.975
relationships
1138
01:39:03.615 --> 01:39:05.294
between PDGA staff,
1139
01:39:05.615 --> 01:39:12.640
between Brighton Ski Resort, between ourselves and the players and staff and spectators. It was very tricky.
1140
01:39:13.440 --> 01:39:15.760
Friday Friday especially was hard because
1141
01:39:15.920 --> 01:39:16.959
we were doing
1142
01:39:17.280 --> 01:39:25.395
we were getting ready for a Fly Mart down down low. While everybody was sheltering up top, we had we had the band getting ready for a party.
1143
01:39:25.795 --> 01:39:40.140
And, you know, we we, at at one point, had to tell the band, hey. Can you guys take a break? Because, you know, we're getting told up top, you know, players are asking the PDGA why are why are we partying down here when they're when they're not allowed to play?
1144
01:39:40.460 --> 01:39:51.180
If they can party, we can play. Right? So so there was there was some pretty high energy on Friday and some friction between us because because we were trying to provide a party that was promised.
1145
01:39:51.705 --> 01:39:56.024
Meanwhile the lightning wasn't wasn't working, and quite honestly,
1146
01:39:56.265 --> 01:39:57.384
like between
1147
01:39:57.464 --> 01:39:58.824
being up top
1148
01:39:59.225 --> 01:40:01.145
at 9,500 feet,
1149
01:40:01.385 --> 01:40:03.705
it's different than being down
1150
01:40:04.100 --> 01:40:05.220
at 8,500
1151
01:40:05.220 --> 01:40:08.020
feet. Like that thousand feet of difference makes
1152
01:40:08.100 --> 01:40:13.219
makes a it it it's almost a different lightning, it's like situation.
1153
01:40:13.379 --> 01:40:14.099
Yeah.
1154
01:40:15.140 --> 01:40:17.779
So that was definitely a
1155
01:40:18.185 --> 01:40:20.105
I would say if
1156
01:40:20.665 --> 01:40:25.464
I would say that that was one of the more stressful things that we've been through is was that Friday.
1157
01:40:25.865 --> 01:40:31.305
And the the energy this this is all to put into perspective the the energy that existed
1158
01:40:31.625 --> 01:40:35.120
when when when we had 150
1159
01:40:35.120 --> 01:40:37.760
people down at the base watching the Jumbotron and
1160
01:40:39.600 --> 01:40:48.080
getting ready for this party and seeing these women come off the mountain after a twelve hour day and watching in real time the PDGA
1161
01:40:48.615 --> 01:40:51.814
doing something that has never been done before, and that's party barging a
1162
01:40:53.095 --> 01:40:55.734
lead and chase card at a Major, right?
1163
01:40:55.975 --> 01:40:57.574
Like, being like, alright,
1164
01:40:57.975 --> 01:40:59.254
screw it. We're putting
1165
01:40:59.575 --> 01:41:03.620
it all together, we're doing an eight top, let's go, we're finishing this round. And
1166
01:41:04.180 --> 01:41:08.340
when we all realized that that was happening down there, there was like this primal
1167
01:41:09.860 --> 01:41:10.980
energy that
1168
01:41:11.460 --> 01:41:14.500
we felt and there was so much cheering and
1169
01:41:15.140 --> 01:41:15.939
I
1170
01:41:16.820 --> 01:41:17.700
heard afterwards
1171
01:41:18.435 --> 01:41:25.234
that the vibe coming down was so amazing because because they could hear us cheering from so far away.
1172
01:41:25.555 --> 01:41:31.074
Right? And we never really got that experience outside of that Friday night because Saturday,
1173
01:41:31.234 --> 01:41:32.915
we didn't really get very many spectators
1174
01:41:33.290 --> 01:41:35.450
up. And on on Sunday,
1175
01:41:35.450 --> 01:41:38.410
all the spectators weren't at the base. They were up top. So
1176
01:41:38.730 --> 01:41:41.690
Friday night was our was our night to really enjoy
1177
01:41:42.010 --> 01:41:44.090
that big screen that we rented.
1178
01:41:44.970 --> 01:41:47.050
Now it was a funny moment because at that point,
1179
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I was leading crowd down for lead card,
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and Chase and lead card were on Hole 18.
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And they were waiting for the card for them to putt out in front, and that's where, you
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know, Phil had made the announcement.
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He's just like, we're doing an a top.
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He's just like, all all eight of you are just gonna, like, tee off. And then, like, a couple of them turned around. They're like, wait. Wait. Wait. What are we doing though? Why are we doing that? That's the thing. And he he just, like, looks at, like, all of them. He's like, you guys wanna be back here at 05:30 in the morning to finish this hole? He's like, we are finishing this round. He's like, we got one hole left. And at that point, it was like,
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you could it was just that point in the mountains where you're like, any second it's just gonna like, you're gonna blink and it's gonna go dark. It's just that moment Mhmm. Where like the sun's down behind the mountains.
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And so everyone tees off,
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you know, we get down there. I remember you guys like coming because we're walking everyone down and I'm like, what are these cars coming down behind us? It was it was you and Sean and everyone else. Well, had shuttled players up to their Yeah. Yeah. So they could restart. Yeah. And so we get
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we get down down to the they finish it off and I I swear to God it was one of those moments like just from the walk from Eighteen's Green
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down to, you know, basically the base necessarily.
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And it's a it's a six minute walk, seven minute walk if anything.
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And you get down to the bottom and there was just it was it was dark. And you were like, wow. Like,
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not a, you know, five minutes to spare if that. And if you had waited
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probably for those two cars to tee off separately,
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like, lead card would have been putting in the dark. And it was it was like this the perfect call,
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you know, like it was the kind of that sigh of like, alright, we did it. We're back on track. Like, we're back on track for round three, back on, you know, because again, I it was after day one, you were just kinda that's
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not how we wanted to start it. But, I mean, Friday
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was just such a fun day. Like, those two rounds of golf, like, even though I was working crowd control, like, just being front and center to watch that whole lead card, like, there was points where you would just kinda, like, you know, you'd forget to put the sign up because you were just so involved. Like, oh, yeah. Wait. I gotta put this quiet sign up. Yeah. I'm not a spectator. Yeah. But you just and you would just kinda, like
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I mean, it was a thrill. You got you got two rounds of it, and it was you know, I felt bad. It was only it was I
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felt bad for Chandler Ray because
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it would have been her first time in her career making
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Chase card. And
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she made it, but they never switched cards. And so she was up up top and she was kinda like sad. She was like, oh, my first time. And so I was just like, ah, you know, it would have been a great a great tournament for her to have coverage on and But stuff like
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all in all, like I said, two rounds of golf, a quiet round in the morning. Like, was very like
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just a nice serene round of golf, like in the morning. Then like we still had spectators show up. Yeah. We still had I mean, props to the spectators after after it all, like every every single round, we still had people showing up early to to come watch.
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And kudos to them for, you know, going up and down that mountain twice in one day and following the cards. But, yeah, it was
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that was a that was a fun day. Will say like
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that morning around, like I still had my coffee. It was like just a peaceful morning of disc golf. And then like the afternoon you you kinda you kinda felt things like start to ramp up and and and, you know,
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the crowds were bigger, that type of thing and it was, like I said, it was just kinda it it was a long day, but definitely a day where I was just kinda like, you know,
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this is what this is what I wanted, like the excitement's in the air. And then Like And then just top it off with with the with the Fly Mart. Yeah. And Fly Mart and Brody's band playing. Band. Yeah. Brody crushed it. I'll just say that Friday
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was like an all time high
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type of day
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for me personally
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because
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not only following the I I was following Kat Murch and Paige Pearson Kona's card and getting some footage and just just kind of the banter on the tee pads was hilarious. So much fun. And the vibe was fun and and seeing all that.
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And then the snowboard trophy got leaked on purpose to and and displayed and on socials
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and
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that was that was special. Yeah. Because everyone was just goobering themselves over it. Right.
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And then at the Fly Mart,
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Fly Design, we had a booth and my kids were vending for me because I was gonna be in the band playing.
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And so I've got my family up there kinda seeing what dad does like, oh dad's a disc golfer. Oh dad loves disc golf. Oh dad wants to go play.
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And they're they're getting to see this firsthand.
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And so that was
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I think it finally clicked for them on Friday like, oh,
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this isn't just, oh, this is
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this is like the epicenter of disc golf right now and dad's right in there. Yep. And then
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the band is sound checking. Supposed to go on at 6PM.
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Obviously, all this chaos with the lightning delays and
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know Rob's
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stressing out like, the band's starting to sound check so that we're ready by 6PM.
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Obviously things are changing.
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Rob's like, we're gonna shut this down if you guys don't stop sound checking.
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I'm like, I'm just the bass player,
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but I'm in there with the sound guy like, hey. That was a bad call, by the way. We should have pushed back on that hard and been like, you know what? We're safe. We're fine. We're right now under a concrete structure. This is national forest land. There's nothing we can do about about
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it. Sorry.
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Yeah. You know? But And we eventually did. Yeah. We eventually just stopped stopped, like, looking at our phones for a little bit. Yeah.
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So there's that stress of you know getting about to get the party started and having to pause the party and having you know, so I'm now I'm standing on stage with my bass guitar and my band and our instructions were
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as soon as that last putt hits the chains,
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the downbeat of the music starts, party starts, game on.
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And so I'm on the stage
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watching the Jumbotron
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action happen and watching it in real time right behind the Jumbotron because Hole Eighteen's right there,
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and
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it's a surreal moment.
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And there's this there's this buzz and excitement that the round is gonna finish
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and this relief.
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And then there's all these other things going on for me and
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it it was kind of a magical time
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for me.
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And I just wanna say that the next day was even better.
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And so we'll
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get into that here in a sec, but Yeah. Yeah.
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I we've talked about a lot of different things.
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A couple of totally random things that happened throughout the day.
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I saw somebody I went to high school with that was just randomly up there with his kids and his name was also Nick and
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we used to do this thing, we were in band and choir together, yes I was a band geek,
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proud to be,
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and we used to do this thing where before every concert
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we were both tall, I'm six'four, he's like six'five or six'six and
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we would get a running start
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and high five.
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And just like the loudest
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smack of high five. And so I go up and talk to him
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and then I go back and I was having lunch with Paige Pierce
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at the Alpine Rose and he calls out to me and he's like, Hey Jennings,
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remember what we used to do in high school?
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I was like, Oh yeah. And so we did one of those high fives right in front of the stage at the Alpine Rose with like, there was probably 50 people down there watching
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and that was kind of cool.
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And then
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I
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head into the the Alpine Rose to go pee before starting to shuttle people back up before like the 06:00, 06:30 whatever
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restart.
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And I walk into the bathroom
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and I see a guy that I used to play in a cover band with. I see Dallas and he
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played in the band after Brody's band
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and we just kind of like reminisced for a second. It was kind of a fun little connection. But then I go up the hill
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to Hole 17
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and
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Phil is there and I
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overheard part of a very heated conversation.
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And he ended up like hiking up the mountain to get away from everybody to like have the conversation which I think was the
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01:50:39.785 --> 01:50:40.584
right call.
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So tensions were definitely high at that point and it was on Hole 17 when
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lead card was
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waiting on
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Hole Seventeen's T pad that the decision of the mega top,
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were the eight top. The party barge? The party barge.
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And somebody asked like, is that even legal? He like very quickly, he's like, yep, we've done it here, here and here. Like we're doing it, we're finishing this round, like come hell or high water type And of a
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then
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Sean Bagley
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came up and was shuttling people too.
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And he was following
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01:51:17.880 --> 01:51:19.560
a local, Zach Lowe,
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01:51:19.800 --> 01:51:21.480
who was also shuttling people.
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And they took a wrong turn.
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01:51:25.805 --> 01:51:26.765
Oh boy.
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And he ended up tearing off like part of the aluminum on I
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01:51:31.965 --> 01:51:34.524
his didn't know that. And it was like
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01:51:35.885 --> 01:51:44.399
thirty minutes after he had told me, oh, I really have been wanting to to off road in my vehicle and see how it does. He's got a blazer.
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And I turned to him and said, bet you wish you hadn't said that now. It was just kind of a fun a fun little thing.
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But then we get down to the Fly Mart and the party is hopping.
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01:51:54.045 --> 01:52:12.629
There was so many people there. It was a vibe. It was such a vibe. There was a very, very amazing energy there that night, and Yeah. And there was a lot of there was a lot of spectators who didn't come back on Friday because because of their experience on Thursday that missed out on an entire amazing day. It was so good. It's just too bad.
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01:52:13.110 --> 01:52:17.030
Yeah. Yeah. But, I mean, lots of players vending and,
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01:52:18.255 --> 01:52:22.175
I mean, lots of players from the the valley courses too,
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01:52:22.495 --> 01:52:35.740
who, for all intents and purposes, everything went super smoothly down in the valley. Yeah. It's like we don't even have to talk about it because it was just like it was just every everybody down there was just having the time of their lives, having a great time everywhere they went because our staff was so amazing,
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and our courses were set up perfectly that everyone could just relax and have a great time. Yeah. Like, I know It was the mount it's the mountain that we need to be be discussing because the mountain is its own character in the story. It was true.
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Yeah. Well, shout out to
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01:52:51.995 --> 01:52:53.594
Brody's band for playing
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01:52:53.834 --> 01:52:57.194
Mythic Valley, right? And to Drama Lama
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01:52:58.380 --> 01:53:02.779
for helping entertain the Fly Mart on Friday night and what a special night that was.
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But I think that's gonna do it for this episode of the Elevate Utah Podcast.
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We are gonna be back shortly with
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wrapping up how the tournament went.
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Day three on Saturday, day four championship Sunday
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and then a couple of things post event that have been really cool. So please make sure to tune in to the two of The US Women's Recap from Elevate Utah Disc Golf Podcast.
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Thanks for listening and we'll see you shortly.