Ringin' RakiChains is a tournament that will be played on Saturday, June 15, 2024, in Murska Sobota (Slovenia) as the second of three rounds of the Triple Bogey Tour 2024 at Park Rakičan. The competition will consist of three rounds of 13 holes each.
The tournament is organized by Lagoda Disc Golf with the assistance of the local organizer, Disc Golf Club Pomurje. This year's tournament will be the third edition of Ringin' RakiChains, which was first played in 2022 with the participation of 71 players from Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, and Serbia. In the second tournament in 2023, 52 competitors participated.
All three rounds of the Triple Bogey Tour 2024 are played in PDGA color categories open to both genders: Purple (rating up to 800), Green (rating up to 850), Red (rating up to 900), and the Gold category (for all other players).
For more information about the tour and scoring for the overall standings, visit the Triple Bogey Tour website. The current standings table can also be downloaded in PDF format from this page.
A player who was eligible to participate in a certain category in the first round of the tour (e.g., someone with a rating of 846 sufficient for Green) can participate in that same category in all three rounds of the tour, even if their rating exceeds the category limit in the meantime.
Also, each player can play in a higher rating category if they choose to do so (e.g., someone with a rating of 730 can play Purple, but also any other category, whereas a player with a rating of 870 cannot play Purple or Green).
Players who are not PDGA members and do not have a rating can only play in the Purple category if they have not played PDGA tournaments before or if their average rating for the last 6 rounds played is not more than 800. If their rounds are worth more than 800, they can play in the Green, Red, or MPO/FPO category. A player who has no rating and whose last 6 rounds are worth more than 850 rating points cannot play in the Green category but can play in the Red or MPO/FPO category.
The tournament schedule will be available later.
Registrations
To register for the competition, open a separate registration page. The field is limited to 65 players (13-hole course is played)
Competition results will be published on the PDGA website.
The tournament fee for Green, Red, and Gold categories is €20, while the fee for the Purple category is €10 and must be paid to the account of Lagoda j.d.o.o. before the event, including tournament organization, facility usage fee, tour prize fund fee, smaller trophy for the best players in each category, and prizes for the tombola.
The participation fee must be paid to the bank account before or after the tournament:
Lagoda j.d.o.o., Varaždin, HR6323400091110550349
If you do not pay the fee in advance, payment will be possible in cash at the tournament venue.
For the Green, Red, and Gold categories, €5 of each registration fee is allocated to the category prize fund, and after the last round, the top 25% of players in each category will receive cash prizes (or merchandise equivalent) according to the distribution table.
In the Purple category (where a lower registration fee is paid), there will be no distribution of prizes for the top 25% of players; instead, only the top 5 participants in the overall standings will receive prizes.
Game
The competition will be conducted in the following format:
Round 1 - groups will be formed with mixed categories and strength groups determined by PDGA rating. We will try to ensure that players from the same clubs/countries are not placed in the same groups in the first round, so they can socialize with players they do not regularly see through the game.
Rounds 2 and 3 - groups formed by result, without mixing categories
Course
The tournament will be played on the course of the permanent disc golf terrain Park Rakičan Disc Golf with some additional baskets and specific changes.
The baskets to be used on all tracks are Prodigy T2.
The tees will mostly be made of artificial turf carpet, while a smaller number of tees may be marked only on the ground (details will be available later).
The course plan in PDF format will be available on this page in early April.
Weather
You can follow the weather forecast for Murska Sobota on the Yr.no website.
In case of bad weather, you can also monitor lightning radar or rainfall radar.
Accommodation
Only two 4* rooms are currently available in the castle during the tournament period, each for a maximum of 3 persons. The price for 1 or 2 persons is €100 per night, and the price for 3 persons is €130 per night, plus a tourist tax of €2 per person per night.
For participants, we will offer the option of shared accommodation near the venue, where multiple people can stay.
Food
Participants will be offered the option to pre-order lunch on Saturday, dinner on Saturday, and lunch on Sunday. Options will be available later.
Parking
If you are arriving by car, you can park along the edge of the park (google maps location).
Toilets
There is a café inside the castle where you can use the restroom. The café's opening hours are Friday and Saturday from 9:00 to 21:00, and Sunday from 9:00 to 20:00.
Photos
All photos taken during the tournament will be added to a Google Photos Album at the end of each day, which you can download and use for social media. When posting on Instagram, please use #triplebogeytour #ringinrakichains #discgolfrakican #murskasobota @lagoda_disc_golf @visitmurskasobota @parkrakicandiscgolf.
Ace Pool
All players who wish can pay €1 in cash, which will be placed in a special box. From previous Lagoda tournaments, the Ace Pool already contains €83 as of March 21st.
A player who scores an ace during the tournament becomes the winner of the entire Ace Pool prize fund. If two or more players hit an ace at the same tournament, they share the ace pool. If no player hits an ace, the ace pool is carried over to the next Lagoda tournament, and so on until the ace pool is awarded at a tournament. The ace pool will not be transferred to the Euro Tour Pro Forester.
A player who wants to participate in the Ace Pool must pay €1 before the start of the first round. If a player hits an ace but did not pay into the ace pool before the start of the first round, they are not eligible for the prize.
CTP – Closest to the pin
On one hole, we will organize an additional competition to determine who threw the disc closest to the basket, which will take place during the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd rounds. There will be a meter next to the basket, and the player whose disc comes to a stop closest to the basket can measure the distance from the pole to the disc. The player whose disc, after the end of the second round of competition, has the shortest distance from the basket wins the prize.
To be valid, the disc must be within 5m of the basket, and you need to send a photo from the meter distance shown to the official tournament WhatsApp group.
Overachiever
The award is given to the player who has played the tournament on average the most above their rating (according to current ratings on the PDGA website). All tournament participants who have a PDGA number and active membership and have at least 20 played rounds included in their rating are eligible for this competition.
Awards and Tournament respect tombola
At the tournaments we organize, trophies and possible smaller prizes are awarded to the top three players in the MPO, FPO, Red, and Green categories paying the full registration fee, and a prize is awarded to the winner of the Purple category (paying the reduced registration fee), while additionally rewarding through the tombola all players who have earned it by respecting the tournament rules. The tombola takes place at the end of the tournament, after announcing the winners in all categories. The usual main prize in the tombola is a disc golf backpack.
In order for a player to claim a prize in the tombola, they must:
1. Be present at the player meeting (when we read your name at the beginning of the meeting, you need to be present)
2. Pay the tournament registration fee in advance or during the tournament (no later than the start of the winner announcement)
3. Play all tournament rounds
4. Check in on time (mandatory check-in) if indicated in the tournament schedule
5. Be present at the winner announcement.
If a player is drawn in the tombola and has not fulfilled all four criteria, they cannot claim the prize, and the next player is drawn. The same player cannot win a tombola prize at two consecutive tournaments.
Gallery photos and on this page:
Borut Bencak, Blaž Weindorfer and Lagoda Disc Golf
