anybody want to be my mixed doubles partner for worlds?

anybody want to be my mixed doubles partner for worlds?



You could pick me, but you'd have to carry me...and my game.

:D

yeah me too :D

I think I'm going...I wanna go...so I'll throw my name in the hat.

Dont know if im going but if someone wants me as a partner i will sure try and get work off so i can go :D

Pick Me Pick Me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D

Hell yeah!
I've you'd just like to mail my plane tickets to the UK, I'll see you at the airport... :D

Are you referring to Worlds Doubles in Texas? If so my name is in the hat also.

I don't know but if I don't play with Deatra I'll be up for it. /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

I don't know but if I don't play with Deatra I'll be up for it. /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif



Take Scooter...he needs a lady friend. :D:o

anybody want to be my mixed doubles partner for worlds?



Sure, that would be fun.

As long as your dad is ok with it, not sure where I stand with him right now, it's always up and down :)

What do you mean I have my own groupies that follow me around. /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

I thought those were Robbie Bratten's groupies?

No I have imaginary ones :D:D

good call kid! :D

No I have imaginary ones :D:D



do you keep them next to your g.i. joes!!??

Yeah and my power rangers :confused: :confused:

It's almost guaranteed that I am going...

I would love to be your partner, you play in advanced right? Or are you going to play in the junior division? I am still unsure myself...

i am going to play adv women

Nice, meeting new juniors is always great, With so many adults it's nice to have someone your age every once in a while. The ratio is like 20:1 :D.

Yeah and my power rangers :confused: :confused:



as long as there not barbies and care bears!!haha!!

True. :D:D

i am going to play adv women


I'm pretty sure you are still officially undecided. :)

With the new rules change I can still play 16 and under. /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif :D/msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

That was a butchered explanation of the rule change, and it will cause confusion. :(

The division is not "16 and under". This is why not: if you are sixteen and turn 17 in September, you cannot play the divsion even though you are 16 years old.

The change makes it difficult to give the Junior divisions meaningful names.

So if I turn 16 next month could I play at worlds? Sorry if I messed the rule up. :confused: :confused:

no !! you must play open!! bummer huh!!

I turn 17 in October...
I can still play 16 and under right?

Nope.


From http://www.pdga.com/documents/td/05PlayerDivisionsGridFinal.pdf

Age 19 & Under MJ1 FJ1 Born 1986 or later
Age 16 & Under MJ2 FJ2 Born 1989 or later
Age 13 & Under MJ3 FJ3 Born 1992 or later
Age 10 & Under MJ4 FJ4 Born 1995 or later


The divsision names are wrong, as all players 19 and under cannot play on MJ1 or FJ1.

The reality is that the divisions are "Under 19" and "Under 16" etc., except that you can still play the division for the rest of the year after you turn the age of 19/16/13/10.

I think it makes it very difficult to explain what is going on in these divisions, and it will lead to kids playing in divisions that they are not, by rule, allowed to.

Megan is in the same boat. She is 16 right now, but she cannot play in the "16 and Under" division because she was born in 1988, and the rule says "born 1989 or later". So the name of division is wrong, because the division name is "16 and under" and Megan is 16 yet she is ineligible to play in that division.

So let her play advanced wimmin's division.

Jon, you are a BOD member. Does it make any sense that a 16 year old cannot play in the "16 and under" division?

I think the rule change with the name change is bad because of the confusion factor. I would say leave it as it was: Under-10, under-13, under-16, under-19. If your birthday happens to fall in the middle of Worlds, deal with it.

So my birthday is 7-12-86. Am I elgible to play Juniors?

Does it make any sense that a 16 year old cannot play in the "16 and under" division?



No more or less sense than the fact that a 39 year old can play in Masters. Our older age divisions use that "birth year" logic, so why would the kids be different?

The decision was made to align the age categories with WFDF.

As for me, I'm just trying to make it to Seniors.

Because Masters isn't sub-titled "39 and Over...except some 39 year olds aren't allowed." :eek:

No, it's subtitled, "if you turn 40 at anytime during this year, you are 40 all year long."

And NOW for juniors, it's "if you turn (insert age here), you are that age all year long."

Just aligning things at the top and bottom.

I know Megan got bit by the old rule at World's last year, and she's getting bit again this year. If the change had happened last year or next year, things would be different for her, but any other number of kids would have been affected. The change was made for conformity, and for a year will have a ripple effect.

Please don't make it sound like I have something against this rule because of how it affected my family! That's not it at all, so let's just leave Megan out of this whole thing. She wanted to play in the Advanced division in Iowa, so that fact that her birthday was the Friday before Worlds made no difference. We went to Miami in '02 to give her a shot at the under-16 title, and that was fine. And she isn't getting "bit" this year, either.

What I really don't like, and I wish you would address this please, is that right here on this PDGA web-site the junior divisions have "word name" that say "19 and under", "16 and under", "13 and under", and "10 and under".

Those word-names are wrong.

Those wrong word-names are going to have people like Megan playing in the wrong division, because the word-name says "16 and under" so the player and the TDs will read it as such and say "You're 16, you're good to go."

I don't know what the fix is. Maybe keep the "Under-xx" word-name and then allow people to continue to play "under" division for the rest of the year after their birthday? It takes awkward language because it an awkward thing to implement.

I don't know that it's necessary, because I've got a daughter who has a birthday right around the time Words every year and we have never felt like we got "bit" or "screwed" by the old rule. It was just the way it was.

Even though she hasn't yet reached her 17th birthday, the definition is that you take the age you turn anytime during the calendar year.

So, Megan is now 17 for competition purposes. She doesn't qualify for the 16 and under division even if by actual birthdate she is still 16. She is now in the 19 and under division.

I don't see why those division names don't work.

TD's just need to be educated about the "whole-year" issue. Maybe it's a database thing that can be done.

Like I said in another post, the other WFDF sports do it this way, so we are trying to conform.

is that everyone b/c i am picking really soon :D

I have picked my partner and the winner is Chris Boro :D :D

I have picked my partner and the winner is Chris Boro :D :D



I'd like to thank my parents, w/o them this wouldn't be possible. :D
Thanks Megan

Oh snizzap. Well I quess you and Chris want to get schooled by a group of Texans. /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif :D/msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Oh snizzap. Well I quess you and Chris want to get schooled by a group of Texans. /msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif :D/msgboard/images/graemlins/smirk.gif



:eek: :eek:

I have picked my partner and the winner is Chris Boro



Maybe you and I can whoop up on EVERYONE in 06 :D

Good luck this year.

I'm just playing good luck to Mr. Gateway and the Crusher. :D:D

I'm just playing good luck to Mr. Gateway and the Crusher. :D:D



Thanks...and good luck to you too.

But you guys are still going down. :D:D

Thanks Megan


Plan to know exactly who I am, because you will. :eek:

Rhett are you guys going to Scottsdale this year???

Unfortunately not.

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plan to know exactly who i am, because you will. :eek:



that is my dad for ya :D

Matt all i ask is that you Bring It at worlds :D:D

Ya, i'm going to bring my best game

Matt all i ask is that you Bring It at worlds :D:D



Word.

All of it or just a little? :D:D

Does it matter? :D:D

The answer ten years years later is YES. :D:D