In lieu of hosting a dedicated league night, the RDGA is proud to offer a bagtag league instead. This league is intended to encourage the continual swapping of bagtags in a competitive yet friendly at ...
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In lieu of hosting a dedicated league night, the RDGA is proud to offer a bagtag league instead. This league is intended to encourage the continual swapping of bagtags in a competitive yet friendly atmosphere. Please don’t take these rules to heart, they are meant as a structure to encourage camaraderie between disc golfers without the dedicated meeting times to build the proper atmosphere.
General Rules
1) Bagtags run from # 1 down. Bagtag # 1 is the most coveted, everyone wants it!
2) You should clip your bagtag to your bag while playing any round of disc golf. If you do not carry a bag, the tag must be visible in some manner during play.
3) The season starts when you get your bagtag (Middle of May) and ends when the baskets are removed from Douglas Park.
4) Players in the league play for tags. You play for tags by challenging each other to a round of disc golf. Challenge rounds take place at Douglas Park golf course, unless otherwise agreed upon and as long as a full 18 holes are played. You may play a nine-hole course twice to make the full 18.
5) After playing a round with another player with a bagtag, the player with the lowest score is granted the lowest number bagtag. In a tie the player with the lowest bagtag before the round retains the lower bagtag after the round. Upon changing tags, please post the scores on here AND notify the RDGA of the change so the league can keep up to date.
6) There may be more than two players competing together for tags at one time. These cases can be confusing, but always think of before and after the round. For example: Players A, B, C and D are playing for tags together. A has tag #1, B has tag #3, C has tag #6 and D has tag #8. Player D scores lowest and so takes tag #1 from Player A. Player A ties C tie but both lose to player D so they take tag 3 and 6 respectively. This leaves Player B to receive tag 8 as that player had the highest score in the round.
7) Regular disc golf rules apply when playing the round. OB add a stroke, players tee off in standard lowest score from previous hole fashion and ties in score are not broken down, they remain tied. If you are unsure where OBs are throughout the course, challenge one of the directors and find out during a round!
Challenging Players
8) Anyone with a tag can challenge another player with a bagtag. It is up to the challenged player to refuse based on further rules below.
9) You can challenge another player pretty much any way you can get in contact with them. In person or through our league website will be the two most common. If you try emailing (or other form of message) a challenge to another player and do not receive an answer, try another method. If after two methods and three days without response from the other player please contact the RDGA to sort out this conundrum.
10) Upon being challenged, the challenged player must exercise his right to refuse, if available, on the spot if in person and within three (3) days if via any messaging platform. If a player does not refuse a challenge, it is expected that he play it out as a proper challenge, exempt of rules regarding other challenges and refusals.
11) If no refusal is offered, both players agree to play a round within 8 Days of the challenge, barring acts of god and other unforeseen problems that would be debilitating to either player.
a. If no round is played in that timeframe, the lower tag player is to forfeit their tag and swap with the challenger. Again this rule is soft as there are often weeks where someone is fully unavailable.
b. If the challenger is unable to play the round after setting the challenge date, another date may be chosen given that it is within the original 8 days. If this does not occur, bagtags will not be swapped and the challenge is cancelled. Multiple instances of this infraction will be taken into consideration.
c. If the challengee is unable to play the round after setting the challenge date, another date may be chosen given that it is within the original 8 days. If this does not occur, bagtags will be swapped and the challenge is completed.
Refusing Challenges
12) Challenge Refusals are allowed under the following conditions.
a. Any player may refuse a new challenge if another player has already challenged them. When the existing challenge is completed, that player is again available to be challenged.
b. At least a week must pass before a player cannot refuse another challenge from the same player.
c. Players with bagtags 1 through 5 may refuse challenges from players beyond 4 tags of their own. That is, the player with bagtag #1 has to accept a challenge from bagtags 2, 3, 4 and 5 but may refuse a challenge from players with tags 6 or higher and likewise bagtag #5 must accept challenges by tag holders #6, 7, 8 and 9 but can refuse challenges from tag holders 10 and above.
d. Challenges can chain with more than two players to bypass refusal rule c. For example bagtag #20 can challenge bagtag #6, and 6 can in turn challenge bagtag #2 so that if the three of them are playing a round together Bagtag #2 cannot refuse. If Bagtag #20 has the lowest score in this scenario he is granted bagtag #2. This does not require Bagtag #2 to accommodate bagtag #20 when deciding a time to play against bagtag #6.
Miscellaneous
13) If you are going to be away or unavailable for an extended period of time (longer than 2 weeks), please advise the RDGA and we may ask for your tag while you are away so that it will still be in circulation. Standard rules will apply and you likely will lose the tag number you had, but that gives you a chance to challenge other players and get that rank back up.
14) Please bring up any conflicts or questions up to the RDGA. We’ll do our best to work out a solution/answer.
15) Losing your tag is a real drag. You lose your spot on the ranking and will have to pay $10 for a new tag if there is one to give.
16) There will be prizes handed out at the end of the season for multiple metrics.
