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Solutions to the "Issues" at Worlds - Grip Locked Clips
Disc Golf's Plan to Address Grip Locked Clips at Worlds: A Pro Tour Solution? The 2023 Disc Golf World Championships were marred by issues with grip locked clips, leaving players frustrated and seeking solutions. The question on everyone's mind is what can be done to prevent such problems in the future? One potential answer lies in giving the pro tour 100% control of the pro side, allowing them to focus on communication and player engagement. The pro tour has already proven its ability to listen to player concerns and make improvements, as seen with its use of online groups to discuss event issues before they become major problems. By adopting a similar approach, disc golfers may have been able to enjoy a smoother experience at Worlds.
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all right those are the issues what the heck do we do about it so what do we do about worlds to make it positive ending positive spin none of this ever happens again and we all right off into the sunset uh and disc golf glory my first thought everyone's first thought is for the pdga to give 100 control of the pro side to the pro tour and let the pdga focus on rules and growing the amp side of the sport my biggest reasoning for this yeah is that the pro tour has proven that they have great communication with the players uh and all of this would have been sorted out without us ever knowing they also i think the pro tour holds themselves to a much higher standard than the pdj apparently does looking at this event but the big thing is like the pro tour has like player groups and stuff like that like on facebook and different things where players are constantly chattering lead up to the event to where when something goes wrong the players can post in this and then the more important thing is the pro tour has proven that they listen to those things so yeah when something's going wrong leading up to the event like the ob line a player it's going to be a lot less intimidating for a player to just go on the facebook group like hey anyone else think this the ob lines need to be a little bit clearer or whatever and then that that post gains traction all these players can say it without having to take it public um because that's the thing too is a lot of this was tried to handle in private with the pdga from what i understand uh also i've heard that players who did leave event feedback did not get the response that you would expect it was kind of like oh thanks for the feedback you know we'll we'll try to do better type of thing there hasn't really been a apologetic response from the pdga whereas i feel like with the pro tour the players bring these things up they're fixed and this world would have went off perfectly because the play was there and we would have nothing to talk about on the bad side this this world's podcast would have just...
