Disc wedge

My Star FL got wedged in a disc at hole 4 Wilco during the Double R's bag tag challenge.  It probably kept it from skipping into the woods.  My second shot landed right under the basket.




The Double R had 33 people show up for two rounds, one at Wilco and one at OSP. I did fine at Wilco but my round at OSP was a disaster.

Jimmy won the #1 tag and the money.

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Tichu Mistakes

Last week I made a huge mistake trying to set up a one-two when my partner called Tichu. I played a couple of high combos that went around and then a huge straight saving one card for myself. I figured I'd just pass until my partner went out. Oops! I'd have to lead (and you can't pass on a lead). I grabbed a card off then end of my straight and put it back into my hand.

"Whoa! You can't do that. Not after showing your card to your partner." The opponent on my right made me put my card back on the table. All she'd have to do is pass and we'd have a -100 for my going out first instead of my partner.

Not realizing that, she played a higher straight that exactly covered mine. Whew! My partner made his Tichu and her partner said it was very sporting of her to play a straight covering my mistake.

Well, we still barely lost the game but had fun playing. I still love Tichu.

Early Birds Roost at Red Rocks

The Red Rocks show was great this weekend! It's the most fun I've ever had playing disc golf. 5 regular Early Birds went and we played with Tyler who used to play with us a lot. It's harder for him to understand our frequent banter since he's deaf. He's a great guy and I'm glad he got third in rec (I think).

Jason, on the left, had his first throw as an open player bang the chains and spit out. He had a great showing in his first open division.

Kyle, second to left, completely creamed our recreational division. He says he'll move up next time he plays. He didn't know he should move up because he hasn't been in a tournament in a couple of years (which he also won in rec.) and he didn't do well the last time our meetup played at Manor.

Matt and I also got to play in the final round for rec.  I think I probably got fourth out of 16 but left before the final tallies.



I don't go camping without games. We played Ticket to Ride, Crokinole, and Diamant. That was cool! Glad the guys are open to playing games and Crokinole is an easy sell because it's all about getting a disc into a target.



It's just great to wake up on a disc golf course for a full day of fun.

Games at Water to Wine

Someone contacted me through our Central Texas Boardgames Meetup about letting us play games in their wine store. I thought it was a pretty good idea so that's what we did.





We had about 23 people show up. I played Crokinole, RA, and Dominion too and I like all of those. We finished up with a game of Wasabi.



Ed and Susan came. They even played a kids game called Animal upon Animal too.

Games played:
Scrabble
Yahtzee
Crokinole
Settlers of Catan
Pandemic
My Word!
RA
Agricola (twice)
Settlers (Germany)
Boggle
Animal Upon Animal

I even got a couple of the ladies behind the bar to play My Word! They seemed to enjoy that. To show our appreciation for the space, I bought a bottle of wine and so did Ed and Susan. I think several other gamers did too.

The Tournament with the Rat

Somebody brought their capybara, a South American rodent, to Pease park. It was an interesting site during The Spontaneous Open at Pease on Sunday.

I thought this would be a good practice tournament for me. Turns out that if John Hathorn hadn't shown up, I'd probably have had to play intermediate. As it was, with him (a novice), and Kristi Gold (a woman) lumped together, we had enough to field a recreation division. That meant I won some plastic. I was leading by 13 after the first round. The good news is that I beat a couple of intermediates too so that was nice but they were having bad rounds.  There were only 11 players in this tournament and I played worse than my rating so that's not good.  Still, the $45 in plastic was cool.  I picked up a Star Max for the wind, a Star Cro as a mid-range, and a Millenium Polaris LF disc.



I liked how the first round was mixed cards so I got to see how some of the better players play the holes. 2 was a killer for me with the water OB to the right and the path OB to the left.

Troy and John Gold contributed to the audio newsletter for the Early Birds.

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Crazy Wind today

We still had 10 at 8:00 AM at Searight. That's a good number in the wind. We decided to play doubles. 3 groups tied, one group was one under us, and one group was one over us. We were all pretty well matched.

The birdie on 18 won it for Gabe and Ryan.



9 of us visited Disc Nation after the round.



And 8 of us hit SteepleChase in Kyle for a very windy round. Last time we played down south, only two of us were willing to go to Kyle so this was a huge group . Because it was so windy (gusts of up to 45 miles per hour) we played doubles there too.



There was lots of doubles going on today. The pro doubles championship, the amatuer doubles championships, we hacks messing around, etc.

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Gonzo this weekend

This weekend, Matt talked me into going to Gonzales and competing in a tournament.  It's part of HOTT, the Heart of Texas Tours.  Day 1 was recreational men and advanced.  That skipped the Intermediate division who played on Sunday but this worked out for us.



Jason tied for first in Advanced, the highest amateur division after two rounds. After the play-off, he came out 3rd and that's really good for his first sanctioned tournament. Jason already has 3 aces this year but none of them in tournament play.



Matt got second place in recreation. He'll get a trophy after it is engraved. He also got $50 in a CTP throw-off after nobody hit the ace pot.



I recorded some of Jay Reading's pro tips for our Earlybird's podcast newsletter. It sounded like a wind tunnel but the tips were good.  Jay won the Open (pro) division on Sunday.

I tied for 4th place recreational divsion. There were 17 in our division and that was the first time I played on that course so I was happy just to place. Matt tried to take a picture of me but he missed the button somehow.

It was nice having Matt pick me up at 6:00 and drive to the tournament.  It's a long way to Gonzales.  The course is nice but I wouldn't go there just to play it.  It is a nice place for a tournament though.




In the recreation division, everyone gets a players pack.  We got to choose $20 worth of items in the pro shop.  I chose a Buzz from discraft in Z plastic.  It had the stamp of the actual event on it.  I also grabbed a tie-dyed towel.

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