3rd Annual Pioneer Valley Classic PDGA/NEFA 4/16

[Pete Charron]

The 3rd Annual Pioneer Valley Classic, hosted by Pure Flight, is set to take place at the Northampton DGC on 4/16/16.

Get your tournament season started early with this NEFA points/PDGA C-Tier event! There is a maximum field size of 72.

Program

Lunch Orders will be taken in the morning.
Two rounds of 18 holes for all divisions.
50% Ace pot throw-off after event if no ace is hit.

Registration

http://www.discgolfunited.com/disc-golf ... rn_id=3803

Schedule

8:00am-9:00am - Registration
9:15 am - Players meeting
9:30am - 1st Round
12:30pm - Lunch (There will be lunch orders in the am)
1:30 pm - 2nd Round
5:00 pm - Awards Ceremony


Divisions

Male Pro Open
Female Pro Open
Male Pro Master (40+)
Male Pro Grandmaster (50+)
Male Advanced Open
Female Advanced Open
Male Advanced Masters (40+)
Male Advanced Grandmaster (50+)
Male Intermediate
Female Intermediate
Male Recreational
Female Recreational


Fees

MPO: $55
FPO: $50
MPM: $50
MPG: $50
MA1: $45
FA1: $40
MM1: $40
MG1: $40
MA2: $35
FA2: $30
MA3: $25
FA3:$25
Juniors: $25

** Add $10 to registration fees if you are not a current PDGA member


Withdrawals and Refunds:

*Taken from the PDGA competition manual*
A.
Players MUST email or phone their withdrawals to the Tournament Director only at the contact information posted for the tournament. Discussions with persons
other than the Tournament Director, including other tournament staff, shall not be considered official.
B.
Players who have paid MORE than a nominal waitlist fee of 10% or less of the Entry Fee to be on an event’s waitlist who do not get into the event, or
officially request to withdraw from the waitlist prior to the event, will receive a 100% cash refund minus up to a
10% handling fee. Waitlist players who ONLY paid a nominal non-refundable waitlist fee of 10% or less of the event entry fee will not receive a refund.
C.
Players who officially request to withdraw from an event prior to 30 days of the start of the event will receive a 100% cash refund minus up to a 10% handling fee.
D.
Players who officially request to withdraw from an event at 15 to 30 days from the start of the event will receive a 100% cash refund minus up to a 10% handling fee ONLY if their spot in the tournament is filled through either the waitlist or a walkup entry (if offered). If the player’s spot is NOT filled, the TD has the choice to provide EITHER a 50% cash refund OR just the player’s pack the player would have received if they had attended (minus up to 10% of the player pack value to cover handling and shipping.) In the case of a player in a Pro division for an event without a Pro player pack worth at least 25% of the Entry Fee, the TD will provide the 50% cash refund.
E.
Players who officially request to withdraw from an event at 14 or less days from the start of the event will receive a 100% cash refund minus up to a 10% handling fee ONLY if their spot in the tournament is filled through either the waitlist or a walkup entry (if offered.)If the player’s spot is NOT filled, the TD has the choice to provide EITHER a 25% cash refund OR just the player’s pack they would have received if they had attended (minus up to 10% of the player pack value to cover
handling and shipping.) In the case of a player in a Pro division for an event without a Pro player pack worth at least 25% of the Entry Fee, the TD will provide the 25% cash refund.
F.
Players who do NOT officially request to withdraw from a registered spot playing in the event and don’t play(aka a no-show), forfeit their entry fee and do NOT receive a refund or players pack. (This does NOT apply to a waitlist player, see 1.3.B above.)


Player's Packages

All amateurs will receive a player's pack of no less than $15 value. There will be previous tournament discs available for selection as well as options for custom Pure Flight/PVC custom stamp shwag.

[Pete Charron]

Registration:

http://www.pdga.com/tour/event/26455

[Pete Charron]

Registrations will be up on the PDGA tournament page shortly.

Thank you to the 15 people who signed up over the weekend and will be out to enjoy Pure Flight's first event of the year! There's no better way to bring in the start of the tournament season than by playing a PDGA/NEFA event. In fact the only thing that makes it better is when it's full, ya see what I'm getting out here?

[Eric Kershaw]

See you there Pete!

[Pete Charron]

Sweet! See ya there man.

As an update to folks for this event and future events this year (not just Pure Flight events). The PDGA withdrawal and refund policy has changed this year. It is now 40 paragraphs long.

The new and updated Withdrawal and Refund Policy has been updated in the first post.

Without talking with anyone at the PDGA about it, I can only speculate that this change is an effort to put more power in the hands of Tournament Directors and create a better opportunity for added cash etc. In the meantime it does strip players of some of the luxury they were previously afforded.

I will be the first to admit that some tournament registrations (such as this one) come up with only 5 weeks to go before the event. With the new rules, that would give someone only a week window to withdraw with guaranteed $$ back. That's definitely a little tight, so expect Pure Flight event registrations to open up further in advance in the future.

I will work with players as best as possible in this transition. The spirit of disc golf is one of understanding, so if there is ever a problem please just shout me out and we will deal with it together.

Cheers!


19 and counting...

[Magnus Johannsson]

Yes please!

[James Reinle]

Pete, just want to let you know that I joined the pdga today. member #83783

[Kyle Moriarty]

IN!

[Mike Dudczak]

Can I be obnoxious and pay cash on the day of the tourney?

I'd like to play MA1. (expired) PDGA #30594

[Andy Neal]

Awesome Work Day yesterday.
Many tee pads much improved.
(Thanx Carli & Jess)
Course is looking and playing great.

Thank You to everyone that helped
out yesterday.
-ANDY-

[Edwin Bedell]

Want to sign up for this event. 1 person is signed up twice? Is this a mistake?

[Patrick Harris]

Now the reg is FULL, can you tell us about the layout?

Played at NoHo today with Travis...been awhile since we last played there...and we realized that there's some possible two or three different baskets placements. So, we practiced all holes anyway.

Is there another basket at #1? Haven't seen it before, that's new.

Are we playing long or short holes? or both?

Thanks in advance.

[Pete Charron]

YES.

Sorry for not disclosing that info. What a dummy!

Ok. So all divisions will be playing the short layout first round including Alt 13 and Alt 14.

Second Round:

All pro and advanced divisions will be playing the long layout which will be original 13 and 14 and longs on: 1, 11, 17.

All other divisions will be play the same layout as 1st round.

[Rick Williams]

The following people may pick up their NEFA membership bagtags from me at registration.

John Buonsanto
William Cox
Michael Habets
Erik Lindgren
Jared Reincke
Donald Tucker

[Isaac Bromberg]

Big thanks to Pete and Jeff for running another great event.
Congrats to all the winners.
Thanks to my card mates both rounds for a fun day.

[chris gagne]

Well said Isaac, I don't post too often but just to say what a effort it must take to clear some of those trouble holes that seemed so tight years ago.....ha ha but thanks all NoHo volunteers, the course is very playable.....thank you Pete, Jeff and allllllll the helpers, thankless jobs but mucho gracias



PureFlight rocks!!!!

[Steve Marcil]

First I'd like to say thank you to Pete and the team from Pure Flight for putting in a great event. Looking forward to playing games many more of there events.
Second thank you to all the volunteers that took time to clean and maintain the course. I was unable to help due to being out of town, but I have never seen the course in such great shape. Great job!

[Bob Kulchuk]

I'd like to echo the sentiments of the others...thanks a ton to Pete and Jeff as well as to all the volunteers that worked on the course and made it so beautiful. The new alternate holes were fun. And the weather was awesome. Great start to the 2016 tourney season!

[Eric Kershaw]

As always, hats off to Pete and Jeff and all those that helped organize the event. Also a big thank you to those that have helped prep the course this year. Noho looks better this year than it has in a while.


Now... wheres the footage from that drone that was flying around during the lunch period?

[Danny White]

Here is the NEFA Points Series Report for this event

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-Jzzq ... sp=sharing

Please post in this thread of you have any issues
http://forums.nefa.com/viewtopic.php?f= ... &start=360