Once again, Stumptown Disc Golf is partnering with KEEN Footwear, Next Adventure and Innova Champion Discs to bring you the 2015 Beaver State Fling on the weekend of June 12th - 14th, 2015. This PDGA National Tour Elite Series event will take place at Milo McIver State Park in Estacada, Oregon, where two spectacular 18 hole courses play along the banks of the Clackamas River. Due to its longstanding tradition of excellence, the Beaver State Fling draws the best disc golfers in the world back to the beautiful Pacific Northwest year after year. Once again, tournament directors Jeff Mittl #25015 and Jeff Hagerty #24724 have joined forces to carry on the tradition.

In addition to the NT and the A-Tier, we will also have plenty of side events and activities to entertain the masses before, during, and after the rounds, including our epic 18 hole mini disc golf course. As with years past, we will again be using both the East and West courses which are played as par 61 with lengths in excess of 8000 feet.

160 professional spots will be available for the NT event and 144 amateur for the A-Tier event. As always, we are pushing for more women to make the trip this year to compete for the crown, helping to round out the field of competitors. Professional divisions will be playing two rounds on Friday, competing for the choice mid-day tee times on Saturday. Their final round will be held on Sunday to wrap up the weekend of competition.

The amateur divisions will be playing two rounds on Saturday with tee times. The first round will be in the morning with the second round following in the later part of the day after a lunch break. The third and final round for the amateur divisions will be with tee times on Sunday morning.

Ratings Based Professional Registration

Due to the overwhelming popularity of this event and our own desire to attract the very best players the sport has to offer, we will once again be instituting a tiered, ratings-based registration system for the NT event. Here’s a breakdown of the tiered registration system.

• Phase 1: March 9th, 2015 @ 6:00pm PDT
  Registration opens for all 1000+ rated professional players, plus all women that wish to play in the Open Women’s division.
• Phase 2: March 23rd, 2015 @ 6:00pm PDT
  Registration opens for all 980+ rated professional players, plus all age-based professional divisions.
• Phase 3: April 6th, 2015 @ 6:00pm PDT
  Registration opens for all remaining professional players.

Important Notes:

• Do not ignore your registration window. This event will fill quickly.
• We will have division size caps in place to ensure non-MPO divisions remain viable.
• Any player attempting to register before their tier is open will have their registration rejected.
• We require at least four players to create a division.

Professional Division Sizes:

• Open - 80
• Open Women - 20
• Open Masters - 32

This leaves 28 spots available for all other professional divisions provided they meet the four players per division requirement.

Amateur Registration

Registration for the amateur side of this event has proven to be quite the undertaking in the past. Historically, the event has filled so quickly that registration felt more like a case of who has the best internet connection, or who can race home to get registered in time. In an attempt to make this as fair as possible for everyone, and with the support of our sponsors, we will again be holding a lottery for amateur registration. You must be a current PDGA member in order to enter the lottery.

We will open the Beaver State Fling lottery pre-registration at 6:00PM PDT on March 16th, 2015. It will remain open until March 30th. During that time period anyone who would like to play in the event can pre-register for the lottery at no cost. At the end of the pre-registration window we will sort all prospective players by division and begin randomly pulling names.

We will then send an email to the randomly selected lottery picks containing a link where they can formally register for the event. Players who are selected will have two weeks to register for the event, after which their slot is forfeited and it goes back into the pool.

Once the event has filled, all remaining names from the initial two week pre-registration window will be randomly sorted and placed on the waiting list. If a spot opens, we will pull names from the waiting list in order.

Important Notes:

• We will have division size caps in place to ensure non-MA1 divisions remain viable.
• We require at least 4 players to create a division.

Amateur Division Sizes:

• Advanced Men – 72
• Advanced Women - 16
• Advanced Masters - 32

Note: These division sizes may change slightly based on registration trends.

This leaves 24 spots available for all other amateur divisions provided the division meets the four players per division requirement.

We understand some people may not approve of our lottery system, but after much deliberation we decided this method of registration was as fair as we could possibly make it. We hope people understand the dilemma we face when putting on an event with far greater demand than available spots.

All 2015 Beaver State Fling registration will take place on 4discgolf.com.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact the tournament staff through the 2015 Beaver State Fling website.