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Brodie Smith on Featured Cards
Brodie Smith on Featured Cards: Analysis and Strategy Professional disc golfer Brodie Smith shares his thoughts on being selected as a feature card for the Pro Tour. With Paul Calvin and Ricky Eisenhart already featured in previous rounds, Smith speculates about the factors that led to his selection, including fan votes, sponsor support, and performance at past events. He discusses how his first appearance generated buzz, drawing attention to disc golf, and whether it was a calculated move by the Pro Tour or simply a response to public interest. In round two, Smith debates the merits of featuring him again, considering his recent improvement in endurance and ongoing learning curve. With insight from his own experiences and post-tournament interviews, Brodie Smith offers valuable commentary on the process behind selecting feature cards for the Pro Tour.
Watch pro disc golfer Brodie Smith break down his featured cards from a tournament, offering insights on strategy & technique.
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it's the feature card people are going to be nice and salty about that well i want to talk through this because i feel like we might not agree here so i got we had paul calvin ricky and then brody smith yes so you know you have paul who i think i don't remember exactly the formula for how um the pro tour decides their feature card but it's basically like a fan vote a sponsor vote and then is it like the past two champions maybe it's like i remember exactly what it is but the the performance of previous tournaments come into play a fan vote comes into play and then a sponsor vote looking at the card i would assume that brody was a sponsor boat because it could have been the fan vote they could have been i didn't actually didn't see the fanbook got a lot of fans but i just know i think paul was on it because of um maybe it's a top i wish i would look this up beforehand there's something with the performance at the last event yeah i think that's where paul got onto it um and then calvin and ricky are just from their performances recently um and then one of them was probably the fan vote and then i would imagine that brody would be the sponsor or fanbot either way let's say he was a sponsor vote do you think that the round one the first round he was on feature card i was all for it because of all the eyes it was drawing to disc golf yeah and i think that was and then they let him post it to his youtube channel after which was a great move by the pro tour and all that stuff yeah um the second round like i'm trying to look at it from the marketing perspective right you already saw the backlash for round one but round one i think made sense to a lot of people round two what what's the angle of putting brody back on it when he's just coming offline you know he his endurance is pretty much back up to normal but at the same time he's still learning a lot there's still a lot that he has to figure out within his game you know i talked to him after...
