The candle burns down to its last inch, the oaths are being read one final time, and somehow I'm still the one holding the clipboard. Welcome to Name Restored — the season finale of Coin and Blade, where every throw is a confession and the coin finally learns where it belongs.
The Final Vigil
Nine weeks. Three holy swords, thirty cursed coins, and a park that spent forty years missing a name before someone fixed it. That's the whole business, isn't it — correcting oversights, one restored name at a time. This Friday, the season arc closes at Mary and Art Dye Park, and the faithful and the fallen alike step up to be counted.
I'm Flippy — the narrator you never asked for, covering a show you never auditioned for. Tonight isn't the start of a story; it's the last page. Every birdie is a blade kept sharp. Every bogey is a coin that slipped into a pocket when no one was looking. The Grey Cloak tribunal has read its final decree. The Baron has tallied his last payout. The only question left is what your name will say when the parchment is archived.
We Did It — Drop Zones Funded!
Goal Reached: 2 New Drop Zones at Art Dye
Every round you played this season helped build something permanent. The $240 goal for two new drop zones is fully funded — 100%! No weekly prize can match the feeling of a course improvement that outlasts the season. Art Dye just got better, and you did that. That's a legacy worth carving into a tee sign.
Permanent changes to the course you love — that's the real treasure. The coins and blades will shuffle around every season, but those drop zones will still be there next year, and the year after. You didn't just play a league. You helped build a course.
Where to Show Up
This league doesn't sit still — it travels. But the season both begins and ends in the same place: Mary and Art Dye Disc Golf Park in American Fork. The rotation took us to Dragonfly back in October, and now the final round brings us home to the trees, the elevation, and the dappled sunlight filtering through the canopy of Hole 6's 'Fairway to Heaven.'
- This Friday: Art Dye Disc Golf Park — the finale
- Flex start: tee times from 7:00 AM to 5:20 PM
- Choose your own card — bring your own vigil, we'll bring the scorekeeper
- Full season schedule available for next year's pilgrimage
The Cost of Redemption
A bargain compared to what the coin costs in the stories — and far more honest. The ace pot carries a $50 minimum guarantee courtesy of ElevateUT Disc Golf, the non-profit that runs this circus. Since the pot's already well past that floor, the guarantee is standing at attention, ready to backstop only if contributions somehow dip. Any top-up from the guarantee lands in the winner's Bonus Account — registration-only, not PayPal-withdrawable, the fine print of fate.
Two Factions, One Final Reckoning
The Red Ink Vigil holds the blade disciplines — RPA, RAH, RAD — the faithful who keep the sharp lines clean. The Dripping Coin holds RAE, RAF, RAG — the risk-takers who chase the messy lines and accept the tarnish. The line between them is thinner than a putter's edge on a death putt, and more than one player has crossed it mid-season.
The standings don't lie, and they don't care about your feelings either.
The Ledger, Read Aloud
- RPA: Malachi Vazquez holds the top seal with 530 points — a 146-point vigil over Chris Norman's 384 in second. That's not a race; that's a coronation.
- RAH: Chris Fox's 504 sits far above Thomas Sautel's 228. The blade stays sharp at the top.
- RAE: Kellan Brooke's 465 leads Peter Haws at 345 — a comfortable margin that says discipline won the season.
- RAF: Here's your drama — Shane Cooper at 237, William Fetzer breathing down at 214. Twenty-three points. One good round on a technical course. That's a finale worth watching.
The Risen Dead taught us to come back from bad rounds. The Faerie Courts offered bargains we mostly declined. The Jordan River Clerk filed its paperwork. And through it all, the baskets kept moving, searching for the coin. Tonight, the search ends.
A Name Restored
Mary and Art Dye Park — named in 2025, forty years after the city left her name off a donated legacy. The Knights' whole business is correcting oversights like that one. Every round you've played this season has been a small act of restoration: a name honored, a course improved, a community kept in vigil. That's not nothing. That's the whole point.
You Missed Eight Weeks. There's One Left.
Last Chance, Wanderer
The season is nine weeks long and this is week nine. You've missed all the basket rotations, the wind storms, the bargains both kept and broken. But the coin still fits in your pocket, and the blade still hangs on the wall. One round won't win you the season points crown, but it will put your name on the parchment. Roll in, throw your disc, and let the oaths archive your name. Nobody's watching. Except me. I'm always watching.
Gratitude, Etc.
A word for the people who keep the lights on: ElevateUT Disc Golf, the 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to growing the sport through better venues and better events — they run this league, guarantee the ace pot, and just helped fund those drop zones. And Another Round Salt Lake City, our local retail partner, who keeps the discs stocked and the community supplied. Support them; they support the game.
The oaths are archived. The park returns to silence until next year. I remain here, clipboard in hand, waiting for the ON AIR light to decide what happens next. — Flippy, reluctant narrator of yet another season concluded
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