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Ann Arbor Area Disc Indeuced Sports Club

Website: http://www.a3disc.org
Location: Ann Arbor Area, Michigan
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Latest Activity: Nov 13

ACE RACE 2009

Ace Race 2009
Hudson Mills Metropark original course
Friday November 27th, 2009

Registration Opens at 10:30 AM
Registration Closes at 11:30 AM
Players Meeting at 11:45 AM
TEE-OFF 12:15 PM

Entry Fees single divisions is $15.00 for all players
Of which $12.00 goes into the Ace Pool Payout, $3.00 goes to A3 for profit and expenses.

Cash prizes only for Ace's!
Prizes for Dots, Dots are explained below.

The number of holes to be played are subject to change based on weather, player turnout or other outside conditions to be determined on the day of event.
We are planning on 48 holes at this moment though.

70 players in 2008 over $1300.00 paid out to ACE's.

(The day after Thanksgiving AKA Black Friday, when traditionally everybody goes out shopping) Choose instead to come play a little disc golf at Hudson Mills Metropark, A3Disc will be running its annual Ace Race.

Format of the ACE RACE is simple only ACE's count towards cash prizes.
1 shot per hole from shortened tees (on most holes) to the basket.
The maximum length of a hole will not exceed 300' but probably be less than 250' average distance.
ACE's are marked on the card as a 1. If you hit any part of the metal you get a DOT, which is marked on the card with a DOT. In case you are not aware a dot is hitting any part of the basket which includes the pole, chains, top, bottom, face of basket is all considered a dot, as well as going through the basket and not getting the ACE. The only exception here is ACE’s will not be considered a DOT. If anybody takes any extra shots or holes out they will not be allowed to play the next hole!!! It is highly recommended that every group send a spotter forward to watch for metal hits.

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Comment by William Gilbert on November 13, 2009 at 10:58am: It was the Terry Proposed entry fee of $20 with the optional $5 extra Ace Pool, in 2008, and i think 2007 my first attended ace race may have been the same.

Brad this is the original Ace Race, Discraft's version is modeled after ours or Joe's created version.

Comment by Terry "the Pirate" Calhoun on November 12, 2009 at 11:30am: Maybe so, John, I do make mistakes. But in the reporting afterwards, it was stated that the Ace Pool was $1,800 total, and with 90 players, the only way you can get that is if $20 each went into the pot. (Out of the $25 entry fee, some of which went to club and some of which went to provide some of the dot merch.) But, like I said, I have been known to occasionally be wrong about something :)

Comment by John and Kathy Hornyak on November 12, 2009 at 11:27am: I don't believe it was $25 in 08 it was $15 total $12 to the ace pool $3 for dots with an OPTIONAL/ADDITIONAL $10 pool, for sure a few years back when my bro got a piece of the pool, I'm thinking $7 or $10 in 1999 @ Brown the first one I attended

Comment by Brad Maynes on November 12, 2009 at 10:57am: Thanks for the education and info, Terry :)

Comment by Terry "the Pirate" Calhoun on November 12, 2009 at 10:56am: Brad, it's the ORIGINAL Ace Race, from which all others have derived. Typically, there are more than 100 dot prizes (discs and other stuff) and an ace pool that could approach $2,000.

Joe, in recent years donations have dwindled, relatively speaking, and the club has provided substantial dot prizes from its merch inventory.

I don't have the 2008 numbers, but in 2007 (at the $25 rate) there were 90 players who threw for a piece of an $1,800 pot, plus lots of dot prizes.

Comment by Brad Maynes on November 12, 2009 at 10:20am: Sorry to jump in the middle of the debate, but is the ace race a Discraft Ace Race, with the associated plasticware? Or just a regular, garden variety ace race?

Comment by William Gilbert on November 12, 2009 at 10:18am: Joe what was the entry fee again and such when you created the event??

Comment by Disc Golf Live on November 11, 2009 at 3:59pm: Hi, Bill. Hopefully a bunch of folks come out, I'm sure there will be plenty of folks who want to drop $25 on a shot at a big ace pot. Dots started as an aside, and shouldn't be a drain on funds. Donations are dots: no donations, no dots, simple as that. No reason to rule out critical thinking when it comes to event planning and execution, that's how things are supposed to get better. How better to DIScourage donations than having a high entry fee? Modest fees from years ago engendered a spirit of sharing and donations came out of the woodwork.

Comment by William Gilbert on November 11, 2009 at 12:56pm: Joe i am just following the event the way it has been the last couple of years. I didn't create the event just following what i was given.
i will not be moving it to a park with the large parking problems it has. if somebody else wants to move it there and run it i will let them do so next year otherwise it will be staying at hudson mills until somebody else is willing to run it there, sorry.
we could easily drop the entry fee and the A3 portion to smaller amounts but then the amount of dots given away become more dependent on people bringing them to be given away.

Comment by Disc Golf Live on November 11, 2009 at 7:17am: The Ace Race should be moved back to MBD park (Brown) since it is again available, and $25 bucks a head makes a mockery of the Ace Race concept. I conceived and started the event, I should know. We used to get well over a hundred folks, nothing close to that any longer. I'd think jacking prices way up had a lot to do with that. Just my two cents. I'll be out a Brown that day if I'm golfing.