Midwest Championships??

[smitty]

I have been informed that the Midwest Championships are in the early planning stage. It is going to roughly be based on the Southern Nationals with a few changes.
-Basically you have to qualify to play.
-The payout should be A-tier quality or better.


It is funded by the players. TD's can choose to make their event a qualifier. They would then send $2/person to the Midwest Championships Director. This money from all the events would then be put towards the payout at the Championships.

Southern Nationals has a huge following and a great reputation for being Awesome.

"Midwest States" would include: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, S. Dakota, ???? there may have been more, if I didn't delete the info I could tell you.


The questions that were asked of me:
1-How far would you travel to play the championships?
2-How many of tourneys in your state would want to be qualifiers?


Comments?

[mrsenortyler]

Questions I would have:
What is the Total amount of competitors that would be allowed? Would it always be held in the same spot? I assume anyone could qualify, no matter where from, correct? I would think that the qualifier tournaments would only be from those midwest states too?


Answers for questions asked of you:
I would think a couple states away wouldn't be too far to travel, but Kansas being in the middle of the US makes it close to lots of stuff.

I think the number of qualifying tournaments depends of the number of competitors desired.

These are the midwest states according to wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States

[smitty]

I will check the answer to those questions. Does anybody have other questions?

[ronconversjr]

What time of the year would this be played? Would this event be PDGA sanctioned(even if the qualifiers are not).How much would the "pay-in"to the final be /event. Sounds cool, I just hope it fits in an ever tighter calender of events without stepping on any of the better tourneys.

[smitty]

I am sure it would be late summer/early fall. The hope is to get a USDGC qualifier.


At least B-tier is what the e-mail said.

[durtydoggy]

What about just including states around Kansas? Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma? I would include Arkansas, but it doesn't look like they have many courses right now. You could always add states later on.

[rlangton]

Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Iowa, and Illinois.
Alternate the tournament between KC and St. Louis, 2 awesome disc golf towns.