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So Plympton, Jonathan and I went to the community meeting regarding Westcrest Park on Saturday morning.  I was glad I went because it is obvious that the neighbors are very on board with having a new disc course at the park while the Parks Department and their outside project management firm clearly already have their own agenda.  Without going into too much detail here, I urge you all to join us at the next meeting which will most likely be in April.  I will remind everyone via this blog as to the exact time and date when announced.  If the disc golf community shows up like we did at the meeting on Saturday they will not be able to ignore us.  We dominated the room in numbers and kudos to everyone for being open minded to the concerns of everyone involved.  It will be close to a calendar year before the works project truly launches so we have time to make this happen.  If we can continue to win over the neighborhood I think we can see something exciting happen here.

Schedule this week will be Wednesday night at 7pm at Lakewood again.  Meet at Hole 14.  Then on Saturday at 11am we will be playing Sea-Tac.

One last note is that the Bag Tag Challenge has officially kicked off.  The only challenge played was on Wednesday when Matt challenged me at Sea-Tac.  I finished with a 68-85 win to preserve my #1 Ranking for now.  Make sure you all let me know when you get your challenges played.

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Challenges start this week for our Bag Tag Challenge.  Emails will be going out shortly to everyone that is signed up so they will have contact info and course choices for each of the participants.  Players need to play at least one challenge every two weeks, but doing more than just one is encouraged.  If you have not signed up but are still interested you have until the end of March to do so.

This week our night game will be Thursday night.  Once again let’s meet at Hole #14 at Lakewood to start.  Tee time will be 7:15PM.

As for our weekend game I will avoid Sunday because of the Super Bowl, but let’s do a game at Lakewood this Saturday.  Tee time will be 12:45PM.

Before the game Saturday I am planning to attend a meeting that with the Seattle Parks Department.  There are apparently discussions about making a new course in Westcrest Park.  I encourage all of you to come out to show how many people are for this happening.  From a purely selfish perspective I love the idea of having three courses within a short distance of my home.  Beyond that though, a course at this park should offers some wonderful vistas of downtown on a clear day with some interesting elevation changes on the holes.

The meeting runs from 10AM to Noon on this Saturday the 6th.  I hope to see many of you there.

10am to noon

Southwest Community Center

2801 SW Thistle St

Seattle, WA 98126

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Alrighty folks.  We played our kickoff for the Bag Tag on Saturday,  but if you missed it you can still join in.  We will leave enrollment open until the end of March, but challenges will kick off as of next Monday the 1st of February.  You need to track me down to pay your $10, fill in the sign-up sheet and get a tag.  Next Monday a post will be up to kick off the challenges.  I will also be emailing out to everyone all the contact info for all players so that players can easily set up challenges.

This week we will be playing a night game at 7:30PM on Wednesday night at Lakewood.  Meet up at hole 14 for the start.

Also, on Saturday we will be playing White River again in hopes of a dryer game than we had yesterday.  Tee time will be 11am and if it is nice enough out we may try to run through the course twice.   This game is relaxed and most likely will be a doubles format, so new players are encouraged.

Well I took a poll and it looks like we should just go ahead and start this thing up on Saturday.  Let’s all meet at noon at North Sea-Tac Park to sign up, hammer out details and take care of payments.

Bring your $10 to get into the Bag Tag Challenge. Also be prepared to submit the three courses that are to be on your preferred list.

One very important detail we will be discussing is Handicaps.   A couple of people have brought up the idea of giving people a handicap so the head to head challenges are a bit more competitive.  I am all for this and I am planning on giving it a try.  However, this first round of 27 holes is to set initial slotting/ranking and we will not be handicapping this particular round.

As of now it looks like we have myself, Jonathan, Matt, Eric R and Plympton for sure on Saturday.  Andy, Jason M and Jules are maybes.  Richard and Weaver are in for the challenge but cannot make this first round so they will be given the lowest slot available when they sign up.  I am also hoping we can rope Ethan and one or two others into this as it goes forward.

Thanks for joining me on this maiden voyage guys.  See you all Saturday.

So after shelving Roundbrand for the better part of the past calendar year I believe it is time to get things going here again but in a bit of a different format. Rather than discuss what Roundbrand has been in the past, I want to just dive into what I want it to be going forward. It will continue partly as a place for people to see the schedule of upcoming games each week, but we will also be trying to get some more competitions going. We have been playing a ton of very close and well shot games lately and some of these rounds have deserved a bit of a spotlight too which means the occasional recap will be making a return.

Now rather than all of our games just being casual group affairs where we always play mixed doubles, we want to get more head to head games and serious solo rounds going also. The casual mixed doubles games will still happen but just not as often.

To kick the 2010 competition off I want to propose a Roundbrand Bag Tag Challenge. I will need input to find a good date to kick it off, so let me know what works for all of you. Rules are below.

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We will be playing a round this Sunday at 1pm down in Auburn at White River. Hope to see you all there!

Let’s get the Roundbrand folks out for a game before May disappears on us. Tee time will be 3pm at Lakewood in White Center.

If anyone can make it I am going to play Sea-Tac at 4pm today.