A.C.T. XI
This is a ‘recreated’ post written on 15 August 2024. I recently went disc golfing with an old friend, my rival, JumboC. We discussed many of the old times playing in the Amateur Challenge Tournament (ACT) and I had nothing on here to reference as they were all on Facebook. This post will be a placeholder where I’ll put in the deteriorated pictures I’ve downloaded from there, until a time when I’ll add context about the day.
Saturday, 6 June 2015This tournament was the ACT’s eleventh year, but the fourth in which we participated… and this was a Saturday where in all the other years we played on Sunday.
“I will break you!!”
I had written some text on Facebook at the time. Some correspond to pictures in the gallery above:
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“Players Meeting”
“[JumboC] text me this pic mid-round of how close he threw it. Just what I needed. LOL”
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“I'm out of bounds, again.”
“I need a cooler like this one. Thanks to the guy at Firefly Hollow Brewing that brought this. It helped, a lot”
“Based on first round scores, Jimmy and I were paired up for the second round again.”
“The meeting before the second round”
“It's weird how close together the discs can land when thrown with different techniques.”
“[JumboC’s] disc in the tree on the Second. There was no "two-meter" rule so no penalty.”
“I hardly ever throw using a ‘flick’ style. This pic is proof, LOL”
“I did not win but I had fun till 3 holes left”
“Nice”
I defeated JumboC for the second straight year! We were both paired in the same second-round group due to having the same first-round score of 76. Once again, a disastrous first half cost him, and a better back-nine could not even come close to making up the difference.
“I thought I was a fairly good player, some things are better left unseen.”
For reference, the ‘tournament’ is two days long and is comprised of four separate championships in essence: two MA1 and two MA2 groups. We played in a ‘MA2,’ a second division. The seeding is by-choice, so if they were all to be combined, then I would have finished in the mid-to-late-80th position out of 109 players.
Driving times are approximate:
Hartford = 0h, 15m.
Tolland = 0h, 20m.
New Haven = 0h, 45 m.
Torrington = 0h, 55m.
New London = 1h, 0m.
Boston = 1h, 35m.
NYC = 2 h, 30m.
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