Chain Savant

The Forecast Lied, The Chains Didn't ❄️‍

Adjusts glasses and checks the weather app one more time. Tuesday, December 9th at Roots promised a frozen wasteland—registration emails warned of a "ColdRisk 0°F" apocalypse that never materialized. Instead, 18 players arrived to find a surprisingly mild 49°F under cloudy skies, proving once again that the only reliable prediction around here comes from counting chains, not weather apps. Episode 2 of Chain Savant asked who else could calculate under pressure, and two players answered with matching 990-rated rounds that reshuffled the entire mathematical equation.

The Savant Seat Has a New Occupant

Britain Best seized control of RPA with a wire-to-wire, bogey-free performance that left no doubt about his chain-counting credentials. Clean release. That'll play. 🎯 His -10 round rated 990—fifty-one points above his rating—as he opened with a birdie on hole 1 and never looked back. The front nine was all business, but holes 6-8 and 12-15 showed his true savant streak with surgical precision. Meanwhile, Landon Adams, last week's 1009-rated hero, watched his hot dice cool to 950 as he dropped from the throne to 4th place. Malachi Vazquez climbed from 4th to 2nd with a personal-best -7, posting a clean front nine and a three-stroke back-nine surge that proved the math can change overnight.

The Dealer's Edge Finds Its Owner 🎰

The #1 bag tag found its rightful home as Eric Pearson posted his own 990-rated masterpiece in RAD, climbing from tag #7 to claim the Dealer's Edge with authority. Seventy-eight points above his rating tells the story of a player who read every tell, calculated every angle, and executed with the calm precision the artifact demands. 📊 Kent Moos posted a personal-best -8 with a bogey-free card but finished on the bubble in 3rd, just outside the money. Nicholas Jennings led through holes 6-7 before fading to 7th, while Chris Fox caught fire on the back nine, climbing from 6th to 5th with a nine-stroke improvement that salvaged a tough day.

The Counting House Shuffles Its Deck

RAE delivered the week's most chaotic lead-change battle, with four players trading positions like dealers shuffling cards. Bryan Cook emerged victorious with a -3 round that rated 895, riding a front-nine blaze to the division title. 🔥 Peter Haws held the final cash spot with a -2 after surviving fourteen lead changes that would make a Vegas pit boss dizzy. Christopher Hamby collected sole birdies on holes 2, 4, 8, and 12 but watched his lead evaporate after a bogey on 14. The Counting House faction lived up to its name, calculating every advantage in a division where patience paid and panic punished.

The Dice Rolled Cold for Last Week's Champ

Craig Bennett claimed RAH with a -4 round rated 909, taking control early and riding a sole birdie on hole 9 to victory. The math tells a different story for Bryant Adams, last week's wire-to-wire champion who dropped 81 rating points and tumbled from 1st to 10th after a rough start. 🎲 Even par never felt so cold when you're coming off a Week 1 title defense. Bennett's steady calculation proved that in the Chain Man universe, yesterday's luck doesn't guarantee tomorrow's chains.

Solo Division, Still Counting 🎪

William Fetzer improved his personal best by ten strokes in RAG, posting a +4 that rated 801—nineteen points above his rating and a fifty-two point jump from Week 1's struggles. Playing alone doesn't mean playing without purpose, and his 14-to-4 stroke improvement proves that sometimes the best competition comes from your own scorecard. The chains still count the same whether you're in a field of eighteen or a party of one.

Personal Bests and Personal Disasters

Three players posted bogey-free scorecards—Britain Best, Eric Pearson, and Kent Moos—proving that clean golf pays dividends when the field heats up. 🏆 Six players set personal bests for the course, while six others watched their ratings crash by 38+ points in a week that separated the savants from the strugglers. Marvin Atene, Nicholas Jennings, Kent Moos, Brian Bowling, William Fetzer, and Malachi Vazquez all found new ceiling numbers, while hot streaks and recovery plays reminded everyone that disc golf math changes hole by hole, not round by round.

The Monocle Finds a New Face 🧐

The Dealer's Edge—a vintage brass-rimmed monocle with a lens of smoked quartz—moved from tag #7 to #1 as Eric Pearson's wire-to-wire dominance earned him the artifact that reveals the invisible game between competitors. Forged on the fairways of Roots when its original bearer noticed a rival's tell and realized the true currency wasn't plastic but perception, this mystical lens whispers probabilities as gut feelings and grants its wielder the unshakeable poise of someone who's already seen the hand they're playing against. Eric's 78-point rating spike suggests he's reading the field with unsettling clarity, translating nervous ticks and routine rituals into a map of exploitable weaknesses.

The Jackpot Survives Another Week 💰

Hole #10's Super Ace pot sits untouched at $731, growing fatter while players count their near-misses and calculate their next attempts. No aces, no CTPs, no problem—for the pot, anyway. The jackpot's patient mathematics continue building toward that inevitable moment when someone parks a disc from the tee and claims a payout worthy of Vegas itself.

The Hustler's Table Cashed Out

Three skins cards exchanged $216 in cold hard cash, with Britain Best's bogey-free dominance translating to an $90 haul on eighteen skins. Kent Moos quietly collected $56 across fourteen skins, proving that consistent birdie math pays dividends even when you finish on the bubble. 💸 Craig Bennett scooped a five-skin carryover on hole 17 for $27, the kind of late-round swing that makes the skins opt-in worth every dollar. When you're counting chains and counting cash, every birdie becomes a business decision. Learn how to set up skins.

The Savant's Routine Is Disrupted 🎬

Episode 2 promised to reveal who else could count chains under pressure, and Britain Best and Eric Pearson answered with matching 990-rated performances that proved Raymond isn't the only savant in Salt Lake City. Landon Adams's fall from 1009 to 950 suggests that even the most precise routines crack when the field adapts and starts counting back. This week's league raised $18.90 for the Roots Course Fund ($18 automatic at $1 per player, plus $0.90 in extra contributions), pushing the total to $79.75 toward the $1,000 goal—eight percent of the way to whatever improvements this community decides the chains need most.

Definitely Tuesday. Definitely Roots.

Britain Best and Eric Pearson now sit atop their divisions with identical 990-rated rounds, proof that the Chain Man's mathematical advantage can be challenged by players willing to count every link and calculate every angle. Landon Adams's tumble from hero to 4th place reminds us that in disc golf, as in Vegas, hot streaks end when you least expect them. Episode 3, "Roadmaster Rounds," promises practice at different times, different holes, and the first real test of whether this brotherhood can adapt their routines to the changing math of a nine-week season.