Welcome to the 2024 Whistlers Bend Doubles Shootout! This is no doubt the biggest doubles event on this side of the Rockies (I don't know if this is actually true, but it's one huge disc golf weekend)
This event is three days, one round per day with Shotgun starts for all players at beautiful Whistlers Bend Park just outside Roseburg, OR.
Teams will compete in the following format. (Format subject to change as we get closer to the registration date). This is the 2023 format
Friday- Best Shot Doubles
Saturday- MPO/MP40- Worst Shot Doubles, All Other Divisions 9 holes best shot, 9 holes worst shot, 9 holes alternate shot doubles.
Sunday-Best Shot Doubles.
AM divisions have voted and will be playing a trophy only event with large players packs!
Pro Divisions will pay for paypal payouts.
Early Registration for tee sign sponsors opens February 23rd at 6:00pm. These tee signs are on sale for $50/team. Tee sign payment and registration are due at the time of sign up. There are 27 tee sign sponsorships available.
General Registration opens March 1st at 6:00pm.
Space is limited to 50 AM Teams and 60 Pro Teams. Tournament Staff Reserves the right to change these numbers as we project tee times.
There are no caps for individual divisions, just AM/PRO total numbers. Please be on top of sign ups if you want to play.
This is an incredibly exciting day for the Whistlers Bend Doubles Shootout!
This event will be the FIRST ever trial (well in a long time) PDGA D Tier event. This gives our event access to PDGA live scoring, insurance (which is a huge deal) and all the other perks that come along with running a sanctioned event in terms of organization and tools for a tournament staff.
Here is what this means and hopefully can answer a few questions.
1. This is a PDGA event now, but no ratings since it is doubles.
2. As a "D Tier" drinking IS ALLOWED during tournament play! Obviously within reason to not have a negative impact on the other people you are playing with.
3. We get to use PDGA Live Scoring so no more paper scorecards!!! The park also now has WIFI in the campgrounds so all players can get their scoring started regardless of cell service out there.
4. We get PDGA insurance which is huge to not have to seek outside insurance quotes
5. We will pay the PDGA $2/player but all non-member fees are being waved by the PDGA for us since we are a trial event for this to see if it works.
6. You will be able to access the PDGA page to see your starting holes, tee times and scores so no more waiting for us to hang up a scoreboard or pieces of paper to see how you stack up.
7. I am going to add some more teams to fill out divisions, all rounds will be shotgun start this year since live scoring make it way easier to do that without having tons of paper cards some in to add up all at once. The schedule will be updated on discgolfscene soon.
This is very exciting for us as a tournament staff for the PDGA to give us this opportunity. We made sure Dubs will have the same fun feel without taking away the ability to have a beer during the round while we get to use the tools that make tournaments run smoothly and everyone is used to!
I was able to have some Zoom calls with some high up people at the PDGA to talk about how this would work and a huge thank you to Dion Arlyn who is now working for the PDGA to help make this happen!
If you have questions, shoot them my way and I'll do my best to answer them.
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Fri-Sun, June 21-23, 2024 at Whistler's Bend in Roseburg, Oregon
Scott Withers February 22 at 11:02pm
Billy Gaskill February 22 at 3:48pm
You DO NOT need a paid UDisc account. Just a free one works fine.
That's cool to hear. I did not even realize there was such a thing as free uDisc any more. It seemed to me that one day it simply would not work any more without paying. I guess I just could not figure it out. Thanks!