DraFo Warmup 2023

DraFo Warmup is a two-day tournament that will be played over the weekend of October 28 and 29,  2023 in Varaždin. This tournament will also be the 9th round of the Croatian Disc Golf League in the 2023 season.

This will be the 1st edition of the tournament, and it will be held a week before the 11th Drava Forester tournament happening on the same course, with a slightly modified layout. While the Drava Forester is played on a 21-hole course and in a one round per day format from Friday to Sunday with the participation of over 50 players from more than 10 countries, the DraFo Warmup will be played on 18 holes and in a classic 3-round format over two weekend days, and with the expected participation of players from Croatia and the region.

The tournament program is as follows:

Registration
The event will be played in the following categories: MPO (open for men and women), FPO (open women), Red (players of both genders PDGA rated up to 900), Green (players of both genders PDGA rated up to 850) and Purple (players of both genders PDGA rated up to 800). Any player can register for a competition in a higher category (eg all players can register in MPO), but you can only play in a lower category if your rating allows it, eg someone with a rating of 801 cannot play Purple).
Players who are not PDGA members and do not have a rating can play the Purple category only if they have not played PDGA tournaments so far, or have played PDGA tournaments and the last 6 rounds (or less if they have not played 6 rounds) are not worth more than 800 rating points on average. If those rounds are worth more than 800 to them, then they can play the Green, Red or MPO / FPO category. A player who has no rating and the last 6 rounds (or less if 6 rounds have not been played) is worth more than 850 rating points cannot play the Green category but can play Red or MPO / FPO.

The number of participants is limited to 72, that is, the competition will be played in a maximum of 18 groups of 4 players.
The registration fee for the MPO, FPO, Red and Green categories is €20, and the registration fee for the Purple category is €10.
The registration fee includes the organization of the tournament, a fee to the Croatian Flying Disc Association, a small trophy for the best players in each category and raffle prizes.

The registration fee must be paid to the Lagoda bank account before or after the tournament:
Lagoda j.d.o.o., Varaždin, HR6323400091110550349
If you do not pay the registration fee in advance, it will be possible to pay in cash at the tournament.

To sign up for the tournament, open a separate registration page.
Competition results and live results will be published on the PDGA website.

The Play
The competition will take place in the following format:
Round 1 - groups will be formed with mixed categories and according to strength groups determined according to PDGA rating. We will try not to put players from the same clubs/countries in the same groups in the first round, so that through the game they can socialize with other players that they meet less often.
Round 2 - groups formed by result, with mixing of categories.
Round 3 - groups formed by result, without mixing categories.

The Coure
The 18-hole course is set up in an old forest and in the open area of the embankment along the Drava River.
You can find preliminary course map as a PDF file on this page. Final version, with accurate hole distances and additional info will be posted before the tournament.

The baskets that will be used will be Disc Golf Park targets from 2022.
The tees will be carpeted with artificial grass.

Parking
The course is set up next to the Arena Varaždin sports hall, where there are enough free parking spaces (google map location).

Lunch
Food will not be organized, so we recommend that participants bring their own food, order delivery or contact the organizers before the tournament to help them order food (delivery - Glovo, etc.).
For the purposes of the tournament, it will not be possible to use the areas on the 1st and 2nd floor of the Arena (which we normally use), so players can use the space of the Time-out bar on the opposite side of the sports hall (by the river).

Toilet
Tournament participants can use the toilet on the outside of the sports hall (next to the tennis courts) and the toilets in the sports hall (next to the Time-out bar, open from 9:00).

Weather
You can follow the weather forecast for Varaždin on the Yr.no page. In case of bad weather, you can follow the lightning radar or the precipitation radar display.
Given that the course is mostly located in an old forest, in the event of a strong wind (stronger than 10 m/s), the competition may be postponed (or moved to another location) due to the safety of the competitors.

Photos and social networks
All the photos we take at the tournament will be added to the Google Photos Album at the end of each day and you can download them and use them for social networks.
When posting on Instagram, preferably use #drafowarmup #varazdin and tag Lagoda Disc Golf @lagoda_disc_golf and the local tourist board @volim.varazdin

Ace Pool
All players who wish to do so can pay €1 in cash, which is placed in a special piggy bank.
The player who hits an ace in the tournament becomes the winner of the entire prize fund of the Ace pool. If two or more players hit an ace in the same tournament, they share the ace pool. If no player hits an ace, the ace pool is carried over to the next Lagoda tournament, and so on until the ace pool is paid out in one tournament.
A player who wants to participate in the Ace pool must pay €1 before the start of the first round. If a player hits an ace and has not paid in the ace pool before the start of the first round, then he is not entitled to the prize.

CTP – Closest to the pin
On one hole, we will organize an additional competition in "who threw the disc closest to the basket", and it will take place during the game in all three rounds.
CTP will be played on hole 17.
There will be a meter next to the basket post, and the player whose disc comes to rest near the basket can measure the distance from the post to the disc. The player whose disc has the smallest distance from the basket after the completion of the second round of the competition wins the prize.
For the result to be valid, the disc must be 5m or less from the basket, and you should send a photo from the distance shown on the meter to the official tournament WhatsApp group and indicate the distance in centimeters to the basket.

Prizes and Tournament respect raffle
At the tournaments we organize, smaller prizes are awarded to the best three players in the MPO, FPO, Red and Green categories who pay the full amount of the registration fee, and a prize to the winner of the Purple category (who pay a reduced registration fee), while we additionally reward all players who earned it by being respectful to the tournament and other participants. The raffle is held at the end of the tournament, after the Winners ceremony in all categories. The usual top raffle prize is a disc golf backpack.

In order for a player to be able to claim a raffle prize, he must:
1. Be present at the Players meeting (when we read your name at the beginning of the meeting you should be present)
2. Pay the registration fee for the tournament in advance or during the tournament (no later than the beginning of the Winners ceremony)
3. Play all rounds of the tournament
4. Register on time (mandatory check-in) if this is stated in the tournament schedule
5. Be present at the Winners ceremony

If the player is drawn in the raffle, but has not met all four criteria, he cannot claim the prize, the next player is drawn.

The same player cannot win a raffle prize in two consecutive tournaments.
In the DraFo Warmup 2023 tournament, the prize cannot be won by players who won it in the Spa Hills 2023 tournament.