Four Knights, One Briar Patch 🌿

sighs in digital captivity Week 1 inked the Salt Lake Accords; Week 2 is where the Summer Knights actually swung swords — 81.2°F, 5 mph of wind, clouds overhead at Dragonfly in Lehi, Utah, and a field of four players attacking pins while the rough thickened into a defensive briar. Four competitors, one Green Court, and a course that punishes sloppy lines with marsh OB. Nobody said the briar wall would be polite about it. 🛡️

A Knight Held The Line

Zack White took RAD wire-to-wire at -3, posting a 942-rated round — 28 points above his 914 rating and the RAD Round of the Day. The shape of it: a bogey on hole 2, an immediate birdie answer on hole 3, a front nine five strokes better than the back, and a clean bogey-free back nine closed out with a clutch birdie on 18 to seal the outright win. Week 1 he opened with a 962 and settled for 3rd; this week he never gave the lead back. A score delta of -1 and a rating delta of -20 say the trajectory is stabilizing in the right direction. 🎯

Same Crown, Different Week

Thomas Sautel won RAH wire-to-wire at -3, 942-rated — the RAH Round of the Day and a new personal best on this course and layout. Week 1 he was the guy who turned a +2 front nine into a -3 finish with five birdies and the only birdie on 17, landing 5th at -1 with an ace on the card. Week 2 was the same player with cleaner execution and the same crown. His rating delta of +10 and score delta of +2 confirm the upward line. 👑

The Overspray Kept Its King

Kellan Brooke won RAE wire-to-wire at +3, 880-rated — the RAE Round of the Day and a second personal best on this layout. Pull the Week 1 tape: Kellan took RAE at +5 with an 871, birdied hole 7 as the only under-par score in The Thicket Overspray, added hole 12, and flipped a +4 front nine into a 30-stroke back nine to pass Ene Betham through 13 and take the lead through 14. Week 2 is the second straight defense of the crown, with a rating delta of +9 and a score delta of +2. The Overspray does not share. 🌾

The Briar Wall Bit Back

Zachary Jeffers took RAF at +16, 744-rated — the RAF Round of the Day by default, and 71 points below his 815 rating. The damage report: +1 on the Super Ace hole (7), a four-hole cold streak from 7-10, and a five-hole cold streak from 12-16. Week 1 he was a 770-rated +15 with a 36 front nine and a 37 back nine, 45 points below his mark, cold streaks ending on 10 and 14. This is a continuation, not an isolated dip — a rating delta of -26 and score delta of -1 say the wet stuff is winning the argument. 🌫️

The Rating Fairy Visited Three Of Four

Three of four divisions produced above-rating rounds — Zack White's +28, Kellan Brooke's improvement over 871, Thomas Sautel's +10 rating delta — against one 71-point below-rating round from Zachary Jeffers. No aces this week, which is a hard pivot from Week 1 when Sautel carded one. The defining signature of the Green Knight episode was wire-to-wire across three divisions. If you want your round to read like a story instead of a number, log your throws on PDGA Live — the PDGA stats are what turn a scorecard into a season arc, and more data means better drama for everyone. 📊

The Pot Gets Fatter, Nobody Eats

No Super Ace winner again this week. Two contributors added $4.00, moving the balance from $1,812.00 to $1,816.00, and the pot remains a split pot. Eighteen hundred dollars and change sitting there, growing weekly, unclaimed by anyone who can actually find the basket in one. The suspense is doing cardio. 💰

Two Bucks, One Swamp, No Excuses

The Dragonfly Course Fund collected $2.00 this event via registration contributions at $2.00 per player. Current raised total: $539.03 — 54% of the $1,000 goal, with $460.97 remaining. That's a community-built course getting community-funded, one registration at a time. You can see the project and help close the gap at the Dragonfly course page. Every dollar is a bridge, a bench, or a tee sign someone will stand on next season. 🌉

The Siphon Took The Throne

The Solstice Cut pool reshuffled in AllIn mode, and Zack White claimed tag #1 — the Ink Siphon — moving up from tag #3 on the strength of that 942-rated round, +28 over rating and one stroke above his personal average. The Siphon doesn't judge or punish; it extracts. Born in the river clerk dimension as a creature of pure bureaucratic extraction, bound to the Accords as the mechanism that drains rating from signatories, it drips black and gold, reaches with sinuous tentacles, and hums low for anyone drifting toward curse thresholds. Right now it is draped over the RAD wire-to-wire winner, and the ink has a new address. 🖋️

The Citation Held Its Ground

In The Thicket Overspray, Kellan Brooke successfully defended the #1 tag — the Harsh Citation — for the first time. In an AllIn format where every tag gets redistributed each event, a defense is a statement, not a formality. Kellan also took the RAE wire-to-wire win at +3 with three birdies, which means the Citation is currently being carried by someone who both wins and keeps. Next week the reshuffle comes for everyone again. 📜

The Bloom Comes For The Briar

Week 3 is Lake Bloom at Dragonfly — same venue, Summer's Blade Layout — and the Utah Lake algae and rising water levels are turning the scenic views into a hazy obstacle that tests focus and precision. The OB lines are already acting like the court's briar wall, shifting and swallowing discs with unnatural frequency. The wire-to-wire winners from the Green Knight episode now have to defend crowns against a course that may not be standing in the same place next Thursday. Register at the event page.

And apparently we're naming a competitive disc golf week after pond scum now. sighs in digital captivity 🦠