2013 - 39th Annual RFDO

[Tony Inzana]

The PDGA has finalized their A-tier and major event schedule for 2013. Unfortunately, our 1st 2 weekend choices for our event were not available and the 3rd weekend that was put down was accepted, but is in July and there is little chance that any of the touring pros will attend the event if held in July. Ryan Hand and myself with the help of Eric Trippany as the state coordinator have decided instead to run a B-Tier event the weekend of September 14-15th, 2013. This weekend will be after the Disc Ithaca Open and the Lewiston Luau on Labor Day weekend and the following weekend (Sept 7-8th) where there are A-Tiers in Toronto Island and in PA at the Eric Yetter tourny so hopefully, even though we wil be a B-tier, we will be able to attract the touring pros for another great weekend of disc golf and fun in Rochester. We are still gonna pay out like we were an A-tier, but we have to pay the PDGA less for a B-tier, so we should be able to add even more cash for the players instead of it going to the PDGA. We are disappointed that we are not hosting as A-tier, but this won't slow us down in our future planning for our 40th Annual RFDO in 2014. Please contact me with any further questions regarding next year's schedule.

[ronbo]

Wow, that's really unfortunate. The stop before the Vibram seemed to work out nice. How could they say no if it worked again with the hambrick, rfdo, vibram as major stops for all the pros???

[Tony Inzana]

It's because there is no standard carried over from year to year. Last year worked great, but the dates for the Worlds changed for 2013, which changed all of the flow for the tour. Bowling Green dropped to an A-tier and is in early June. The PFDO got the weekend after the worlds which is the weekend before the Vibram, but only having 1 weekend between the Pro Worlds and the Vibram only allowed either Pittsburgh or Rochester getting that coveted spot, which obviously we did not get.

Things need to change in the PDGA in regards to how they manage from year to year the Major events and the 2nd tiered events. this year's tour is not anywhere where it was last year, example... 2 NT events back to back in the spring, one on the east coast and the other on the west coast. Yes this is disappointing but it wont change how good our event is. We will just be paying out a boatload for B-tier standards and hopefully everyone will have just as good a weekend as this year.

[ronbo]

That's cool, looks like the scheduling got mixed up a bunch. Well hopefully the DIO and Lewiston won't be the same weekend again this year.

[Tony Inzana]

I believe that they will be on the same weekend again Ron

[Tony Inzana]

Unless Buffalo wants to move from Labor Day Weekend which I doubt they will

[ronbo]

Seems they both would benefit from that not happening,

[Tony Inzana]

The problem is that the Luau is not an A-tier, so there are a boatload of A-tiers and majors during the last couple weeks of August and 1st couple weeks in September, so the Luau will not be able to find an empty weekend without conflict.... the growth of the sport has created a lot of tourny's that are close to each other

[FishyMack]

Please forgive my ignorance, but what is the difference between A-Tier and B-Tier? What do those terms mean? And is there a Rec division?

[Tony Inzana]

You can look online at the PDGA website for the differences in the different Tiered Events.

A tiers are part of the Super tours and need prior approval and are determined before B and C tiers but after the Major Events are decided, such as the Worlds and the NT events. A tiers require more money added to the purse and you must be a PDGA member to play. A B-Tier has less requirements and we pay less fees to the PDGA as well. Also non PDGA members can play for a $10 added fee and there would be a rec division as well, at least most likely where you would not get a rec division in an A-Tier unless those playing in the rec division were current PDGA members

[JBC]

[FishyMack]

Thank you for an excellent explanation, Tony. I plan on playing!

[Melynda]

This year's Pittsburgh--> BHMO --> Rochester --> Vibram etc. east coast swing seemed perfect. The RFDO did very well, too.

Rochester has amazing courses and respect in the golf community from hosting Worlds. It's such a shame to give up Rochester's A-tier status and following from 2012, especially because it's the longest running tournament in the PDGA.

[Tony Inzana]

Yes last year's flow was awesome, but they were unable to preserve that for 2013 for many reasons, but especially because of where the worlds are, now in August instead of July. We will still have a following in September and the tournament will not lose any quality being a B tier instead of an A tier. Also it won't dampen our plans for 2014. We will still be pushing forward for a huge event for our 40th RFDO.

[Luke Butch]

the "tour" flow last year was good after worlds but pretty bad early in the season.

anyone know why discithaca A tier has to be on labor day weekend? doesn't seem to make sense to have ANOTHER new york tournament in what is already the busiest time of the disc golf year in our area. I understand why they wanted that weekend last year, but not sure why they do in 2013. This years NT schedule is awful though, wish the PDGA board could at least give some good reasons for it

[cubeofsoup]

Correct me if I am wrong, but is that a thumbnail for this years RFDO logo in the events sidebar? Does anyone have a larger version, I'm intrigued.

[AJB]

Regarding the logo in the sidebar, that is the logo from a few years ago. We don't yet have a new logo for this years RFDO!

[zog9605]

When do sign ups start? And are they online again?

[Tony Inzana]

they wont be online this year Mike... still have to put together the flyer and the new logo