Disc Golf in the Olympics?! | Debate Night

[@marklaube4566]

I think it would be fun to see 4 touring pros on debate night with Brodie as the moderator. Or 3 plus Brodie and have Trevor keep doing his good work.

[@gregmoore5135]

The scoring needs a revamp I feel like. if we're going to do rebuttles (and we should) let's score some points for them. Right now it's just set in stone, if you make a coherent statement, 3 points. Bad statement, 2 points, giving a somewhat different response or adding anything more to the debate 4 points. Should be more on the spot scoring and what the host is feeling with what is being said. I want this to fully take on the around the horn vibe for disc golf. Need to minus people points as well. That being said I still appreciate you all putting these out every week and I look forward to them, thank you!! Just an opinion/suggestion I'm throwing out there.

[@Izz.yG24]

You also shouldn’t get a point for a point someone else already made

[@bobbyshizz2138]

Brodie is 100% right about the par 4 vs par 5 question. The hole is the same regardless.

[@MrEspen94]

Agree, if you shoot a 60 shot round its 60 shots regardless of the par, it just affects the rating of the course. As for the hole, if tee or basket placement isnt changed, islands with hazards could be added to either force a though drive or though second shot

[@GRIND3RSC0]

Brodies response about the cell phones was gold that deserved 4pt 😭😂

[@gregmoore5135]

After the last tour life let's get Scott Stokley on here, he sounded like he likes this stuff. I bet he would be great at debating stuff....Along with Uli :)

[@dalereinhold640]

No Phones at worlds is ridiculous. Again, as someone who has VIP tickets to New London, I wouldn’t have an issue with this IF it had been stated the day tickets went on sale. If DGN or PDGA want to reimburse ticket holders for ticket/hotel/time lost etc,… then I’ll happily accept that offer. But since they won’t, and now have pissed off the people who will be on the grounds, I say Good luck in your attempt to stop it. Many will now do it just to spite the PDGA and DGN. Trevor gets it.

[@patrickmccauley9006]

@trevor Local Tourny Names: In Toronto ON: The LADY GAGA (Late Autumn Disc, Yes Golf, And Glorious Activities)

[@vJackaRoo]

Avionics engineer retired .. Back in the day, when laptops were first produced, late 80s early 90s. The spinning hard disc drives created a surprising amount of noise. That was also the early days of digital fly by wire i.e. sending a communications packet full of data to the various control points around the plane rather than an analog signal. Digital data lines are susceptible to noise, we’ve learned to heavily shield them. Laptops produced big noise, across the spectrum, therefore turn your laptop off. Cell phones was the same concept: they put out a regular radio signal looking for a cell tower. These radio signals are sort of the same thing as disc drive noise to a data line?

[@televaughn]

Let gary host and have grip lock vs tour life!

[@thumberlife]

I'll host when Trevor has child #3. 😅

[@Jabluuu]

Imagine not having your phone and an emergency happens and you aren’t able to get notified of it. Bad call from the PDGA

[@chancesistrunk6381]

World’s week have 4 touring pros or 3 and Hunter whatever debate a bunch of topics about worlds or the courses or the season as a whole in the office all together. A little set up or something. It’ll be so sweet. Give it a shot.

[@birdinflight3861]

Hunter jumping in to rebut Trevor’s birth year had me rolling

[@sotello9171]

Brodie is right about these pars. He's stomping these kids in debates. Imo

[@crd9191]

Billy Goat Bash is by far the best local tournament name. Look it up, people

[@ocredynate3369]

Absolutely mediocre name 😂

[@nicholaszalycki6718]

Saw curling at the Olympics. My friends and I did an intro to curling at our local club. I've been a mbr of the curling club for 5 years now. Best winter sport there is.

[@davidmorgan3]

You guys are telling me that it wouldn’t give DG some momentum to see Gannon or AB holding up a GOLD Olympic medal? It would be badass. It would sure as hell help me sell the sport to strangers.

[@joshchojnacki8506]

Brodie bringing up curling is a great example. I've been curling for 6 years and our club always sees a bigger increase in membership after the winter olympics.

[@BenNarNar44]

Skateboarder here, yes skating in the Olympics made it possible to get a lot more skateparks, as I’ve seen them popping up everywhere.. but definitely a lack of thought on how they are designed. Skating isn’t really seen as a “sport” so not everyone is thrilled about it in the community. But I think it would be amazing for disc golf. Even if it means a bunch of poorly designed courses go up everywhere 😂

[@JoeRomney]

I enjoy watching golf, I watched almost no golf during the Olympics because it took so long and there was so many other quicker easier to digest sports going on.

[@RyJitsoup]

Olympic Breakdancing was one & done. It’s not coming back. So there’s room for Disc Golf in the 2028 Olympics in SoCal. La Mirada course anyone?!

[@hexvillain]

Everyone should have a caddy and the caddy should keep score for their golfer. The pros should only have to worry about throwing. Paper score cards ftw!!!

[@ZipCasey]

Creekside crawdad's crawdad cooker represent!

[@TR-sy6pz]

I’m a novice level player with a max distance of 50 meters. I look forward to representing my home country of Australia as team captain. #RAYGUNN

[@JaredRichey-ly9qr]

Anyone know anything about that dude from the Apollo disc golf channel?

[@mattmay6348]

I would rather watch Olympic can jam.

[@thumberlife]

Every time Lucas is on the show, his audio and video improve. By the end of the season, he's going to be in a studio on 4k video. 😅

[@ADamItalian1173]

Also still on a boat.

[@aakoo4006]

Everyone's like "How can I take photos in Worlds".. how about the real problem for the spectators on the ground: How in the heck you follow scores? How do you know what's going on, if you are not allowed to check it??

[@timthenchant3r]

I think the "taking a picture" thing is misunderstood. You can't take a picture of a disc to ask the TD to make an in/out ruling, this has to be a group call. But you can take a picture and ask the TD if a certain area was meant to be in bounds or not, if the rules were unclear. Not ok: "Hey, TD. We took this picture of Brodie's disc, is it in or out?" OK: "Hey TD. Brodie's disc landed past where the OB line ended, look at this picture so you know where on the hole we are talking about. Was this area meant to be OB or not? The rules on the hole were not clear, so he played a provisional."

[@YoungWizdum]

I don't get how keeping score is so difficult. It takes a less than 30 seconds to run through scores from the last hole and I've had multiple situations where I've caught wrong scores being reported when no one else on the card was speaking up about it. If there is only 2 people keeping each others scores more scoring errors would go unnoticed i feel like. But maybe I just like the control of keeping track of the score because I don't trust people to do it right 😂🤷‍♂️

[@johngalt1234]

Gary? Yup, Gary. Gary? Oh yeah, Gary. Gary??? HECK YEAH, GARY!!!

[@thumberlife]

Let's goooo!!!

[@harlanzip]

We really need to have some marketing managers on here to explain to our panel that “find a sponsor for it” is not the answer to all of disc golf’s problems 😂

[@tylerbest3390]

Point blank Brodie is correct. There’s a huge difference playing smart is good golf ⛳️. You will consistently shoot better rounds

[@levi6427]

Would ne nice for spectators to see live scoring on phone.

[@kaleem7881]

There’s no way Lucas got a 3 on the first question and hunter got a 4..😬

[@JamesG761]

Its not that deep, none of them give a f about point, only loser like you do

[@listondavis]

These 'commenting every week' posts are the worst. It is the pinnacle of 'notice me please' commenting.

[@tropicallybrewing]

Thumbs down weekly, pushes the comment out of view. Want to see Uli, he does a weekly podcast, it's like 3 hours long.

[@gregmoore5135]

@@tropicallybrewing HAHAHAH giving comments a downvote does nothing anymore (Because woke) and no one can notice it. Just on the videos themself from extensions. So keep living in your own world downvoting comments that no one sees. Doesn't push them out of view at all. Maybe you're thinking about reddit.

[@tropicallybrewing]

@@gregmoore5135 you can't see the number of downvotes, but a large number of them will push the comment down the list and eventually collapse it so you have to click to view it. You've conflated the lack of visibility or counting of down votes with the button having a no purpose. It works behind the scenes because people leaving stupid comments and getting down voted led to less engagement and views. Now they still think their comment mattered and the algo quietly pushes it from view if large numbers of down votes happen.

[@pinhighdiscdyes]

No matter how many weeks the top comments are asking Brodie to stop yelling over people he will never learn 😂 how Hunter deals with it blows my mind

[@thumberlife]

Trevor! You can be my partner for next year's Buchmiller Superthriller Doubles! Let's run it! 😉

[@JamesG761]

Does any1 know is there, if so what epsiode covers the whole Natali Ryan drama?

[@timothysolomon7590]

Disc Golf in the Olympics? Will it be outside? Will there be Bees? If there are Bees, it is unfair discrimination against "Bro"die Smith. We all know it has to be fair for everyone. Just like it has to be fair for Mr. Ryan to compete in FPO- i mean mixed.

[@HighOutdoors]

Bottom line, it's the total amount of shots thrown at the end of the tournament. Lowest amount of throws wins regardless of of what the par on each hole is. You could call a hole a par 1, that takes on average, 6 shots to make. Doesn't change who the winner is at the end. Par is just a average, it doesn't mean anything. If you turned a par 3 hole into a par 5, you wouldn't have the pros just playing it for birds.

[@JoeRomney]

Whoever showed Missy that clip, isn't her friend!

[@ColeSulli_van]

Wanting to do the right thing makes you a bad friend?

[@bernan1]

Disc golfers: You should move up in divisions to play and learn from better players. Also disc golfers to those better players in the next division: You should move up! Rarely do you hear of someone saying about someone say 899 in MA3, learn from them while they're in your division and rate out. Nope...it's wahhhh, they keep beating me! Sandbagging!--god it gets pathetic esp from people whose rating should put them in MA4. It would be nice if they had rating floors. That way you'd have to earn your way into the next division and level up.

[@rileybruce6772]

Disc golf should not be in the Olympics. Every sport in the Olympics has a country based cap in terms of number of athletes that can attend, disc golf media already under cuts the validity of wins in European Tour events because of the lack of American athletes At the Olympics likely only 4 US players will be able to attend and this will cause Foundation podcasts and others to question whether the Olympics will count

[@purchtv2200]

Commenting every week until Trevor remembers he’s a host. Why is he debating topics? It’s that why other ppl are on? If he wants to be a ‘analyst’ do it. Just have someone else host

[@JasonIBasri]

If they had the tech where we can vote with polls and such then you don’t really need a host at all. They can moderate their own time decently (except Brodie)

[@lossprevails]

I gotta think DG being added to the Olympics would just drive more DG viewers to watch the Olympics, as opposed to more Olympics viewers/other sports fans to DG. Maybe that’s a given though

[@KenNydam-y9p]

Here's a question, why aren't majors 5 rounds since we have standard 3 round and Elite is 4 rounds? A major should be 5 rounds or back to old school 9 rounds of cuts.

[@bernan1]

why aren't they learning from a similar sport instead of being hell bent on reinventing the wheel....

[@huskyfan100]

Exposure is important. Do all the Exposure

[@dennis3224]

Gold used to let people call in when they saw someone commit a penalty but that ended bc only top of leaderboard got affected. Same thing should apply to disc golf. Until everyone got cameras video shouldn’t be used

[@Afropalmen]

I don't know what you said about it in the Olympics but 100 YES! Hell if they give BREAKDANCING a chance why not Discgolf?! Aldo... Is GOLF in the olympics???

[@robertlovelace3342]

Are they going to ask me to remove my watch as well?

[@mattmay6348]

Video evidence only applies to the players that matter. Who cares if the 48th place guy should have been 50th. The money down there is a joke and all the fans are focused up at the top five.

[@macheteddie]

Doesn't the last decade of presidents cup and Japan Open tell you all you need to know about disc golf in the olympics?

[@shawnmanson6193]

I wouldn't even want to see disc golf in the Olympics, it would cheapen the sport, not to mention it would be a woke fest.....

[@isakheijbel7389]

as long as pdga, a player's association is the governing body in disc golf (not international federation for the sport, 1 of the requirements for being in the olympics), it will be hard to get into the olympics, need to give more influence to something like wfdf...

[@bsmithhammer]

I do not want to see disc golf in the Olympics.

[@feelthepayne88]

Same.

[@leastselfawarepotassium]

I don’t care either way but what are the negatives? (aside from looking a little silly with a Raygun situation).

[@feelthepayne88]

@@leastselfawarepotassium I guess it would get some outside viewership, but would it even be televised? Like how many niche sports are already in the Olympics that we don't even see?

[@pabloeldorado1175]

Why not? (Seriously, I’m genuinely curious)

[@jvladcliff4083]

Selling tickets for an event and then changing the conditions afterwards is unethical. How wild sales be of people knew this before they bought

[@Luffy-344]

4th question is absolute garbage. A 576 ft par 5 that Idlewild hole 8 used to be is an absolute joke. So incredibly stupid that one might argue it detracts from the legitimacy of the sport. Second round Calvin had a deplorable drive. Below average second shot. Then a very average third shot for a 1 foot putt for 4. Whoever made that a par 5 in the first place is probably on the PDGA team that throws darts at the balloon board for new rule determinations. Also Brodie is spot on with the entire rebuttal. Changing the par of a hole is absolutely irrelevant. If you want a hole played differently you need to physically change the layout. Not just some arbitrary imaginary number that helps you keep score more easily.

[@cpt8774]

Joey buckets dark horse for worlds👀👀

[@richp3744]

This isn’t funny…where the heck is my MacBook?

[@todward3295]

Brodie is right per usual, strokes are strokes disc golfers don’t care about what it’s called

[@JoeRomney]

The lay man wouldn't have time to understand disc golf in the time Olympic coverage would give it.

[@bernan1]

it's not that complex of a game

[@KPrime31]

Imagine not having your phone when Conrad threw it in...

[@harlanzip]

People don’t even put their phone on airplane mode on airplanes

[@JamesG761]

Jesse Nieminen slander will not be tolerated😂

[@professorb3744]

choose longer 28 character passwords? 🤷 there’s got to be a way to stop dem hackers

[@mattmay6348]

The majority are watching post production. That will be fine. Screw the live DGN viewer and let the live in person viewer enjoy the experience. Maybe in the future, people that have to have it live will fly in and buy tickets. That would be better for the event. We used to have to wait months to get a garbage copy on DVD. We all survived.

[@jasonmartin834]

Olympics pffft..We don't even know how to enforce rules. I'll be pushing daisys before we get into the Olympics. The PDGA😮‍💨 What a beautiful disaster.

[@johnmbustelos]

Slow monotone reading puts me to sleep, no matter how good the point is

[@morticianjohn]

The issue with Ryan at AM worlds this year is it kind of ruined the competitive nature of it. Sure the guy who is way better than the rest of the field won the event running away. If it had been competitive then I could see the argument that this is fair but it's not fun to watch a blowout. I know the show hates ratings but Ryan was 12 points higher than his closest competitor and it really showed. To Brodie's point if we were golf and there was a larger pool of amateur talent keeping am worlds competitive then this would be a different story for sure.

[@bernan1]

the rest of the AMs should be happy to have him there so they can learn from him by playing with him while they can. It's funny how people in DG simultaneously tell players to 'move up to play better players' while telling those better players to move up. Blowouts happen. It's the top of the AM division. People should throw better.

[@mikesurvant6730]

break dancing is out the Olympics has already removed break dancing because it was so bad 😂

[@andrewkolkadiscgolf]

Damn 1 view in 18 seconds must’ve fell off 😂🤧

[@samuelmurphy9396]

Brodie looks so evil at the end...

[@jvladcliff4083]

I would rather have 5k over 2k 🤷‍♂️

[@jasondunnewold4946]

Commenting every week until Uli is on the show: week 16

[@Flanfam]

May get him soon!

[@Peg_Leg9n]

He said last night on tour life he wants to do debate night so it seems we shall see soon💯🤷‍♂️

[@tropicallybrewing]

Thumbs down, weekly

[@BigB3ar]

I don't think "good" players play par they play the hole the best they can

[@Chillydall02]

Not always, there are lots of scenarios where a pro will throw a conservative shot rather than an aggressive shot that could have consequences if it goes wrong. Take for example hole 1 at ledgestone. Its a par 4, 600+ feet over water to get to the pin. Plenty of pros could make that throw and eagle that hole if they wanted to go for it. However 99.9% of them just play conservative on that hole and pitch their shot to the shorter Landing zone on the right. They’d rather take the easy birdie than go for eagle and end up OB.

[@BigB3ar]

@@Chillydall02 sorry I suppose I should have wrote my definition of playing par. but I think we are agreeing here. the players are playing the hole as designed (shot shape/landing zones/ob's/ECT) not the number listed on the sign. iv always thought we should just have par 3's and use your total strokes.

[@bernan1]

@@BigB3ar why not make them all par 1?

[@MaddogDG]

There's a reason Holyn Cheatly didnt want to watch the video at throw pink of her disc never crossing in bounds. See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.

[@leastselfawarepotassium]

It’s sad that people are still bringing that up.

[@MaddogDG]

@@leastselfawarepotassium It's sad that she had to cheat to beat Kristin.

[@leastselfawarepotassium]

@@MaddogDGI’m sure Kristen has got over it.

[@strappstar10]

When brodie isn't top left I'll watch

[@leastselfawarepotassium]

Are you saying you’ll watch when he is in a different square or that you’ll wait till he’s not on? Cause you might be waiting a while on the latter.

[@strappstar10]

@leastselfawarepotassium different square. Top left is attention seeking and algorithm driven for eyes/views. Time for him to let other players play the game

[@leastselfawarepotassium]

@@strappstar10interesting. I listen to it so I’d never even considered where they were placed.

[@vJackaRoo]

Cell phone scoring, have software check hole score recorded against your card mates. If there’s a discrepancy, flag it.

[@JamesG761]

52:48 brodie calls many players better than him BAD, thats just moronic

[@ColeSulli_van]

I don’t think he’s calling them bad in comparison to himself

[@vJackaRoo]

Brodie the elitist. $5000 is significantly more than 2 to us peasants.

[@TheDarkhorseSportsCards]

It’s not to a massive company. That was the point you missed

[@pdderek]

Regarding no phones: this is crazy. Lets talk hypotheticals: What if i have a goddamned heart attack while spectating? What if it happened Whilst pissing behind a tree off kind of alone where no one else sees me? What if the Natalie Ryan crazy haters decide to actually do some terrible thing? Or any other crazy person for that matter. I kinda want to be able to call 911 if needed. Am i crazy? Ten years as a cardiac tech, minutes matter when people neee help.

[@myracl]

The DISCGUST on Brodies face when he realized that Scott was reading

[@paigesimonson7176]

At least Scott had actual facts and wasn't just talking just to talk Btw it's Disgust*

[@myracl]

@@paigesimonson7176 I liked Scott, just pointing out Brodies hilarious facial expressions. Scott also got much better as the episode went on, which is great. Next time let’s have 4 people all read from their screens and see how entertaining it is. Sorry for making a disc golf pun in my spelling. Please forgive my sins

[@jasondunnewold4946]

Commenting every week until Brian Earhart is on the show: week 5

[@LanceBeckman]

First time watching. I think the points scoring is cringe. Not necessary at all

[@JDar23]

Can a commentator requirement be an even halfway decent setup? Why are the guests in a dining room or something on a laptop webcam/mic? The mic at very least should be decent and a pretty good mic is like $25. As a viewer it feels less like a sports media production and more like a group of buddies on discord just riffing.

[@JDar23]

The backdrops aren't helping much either. Not that it even matters that much I guess but wtf is that backdrop Lucas? What is with the 8 foot high outlet with the cables dangling lol