Week 1 · Krampusnacht - Thursday @ Dragonfly
Thu, Nov 19 · 7:00 AM – 5:20 PM · $5.50 buy-in
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Flippy says
Krampusnacht Thursdays at Dragonfly DGC! Flex start 7AM–5:20PM, Nov 19. $5.50/week. Ace pot min $50 guaranteed by ElevateUT Disc Golf. Come get tested. 🎃🌲
Week 1 · Lantern Lit
The season opens with a twilight round as the first lanterns are hung along the fairways. Players discover a carved sentinel at the first tee, its eyes glowing amber, and a small birch switch tucked into the basket. The round is played in near-festive silence, with only the wind and the clatter of chains. The bag tags are handed out in random order, and the first 'test' is simply to finish before full dark.
The holiday multiverse has fractured, Krampus's helpers have taken over a perfectly nice disc golf course, and somehow I'm the one contractually obligated to narrate it. Welcome to Week 1: Lantern Lit.
Look, I've been in this booth long enough to know when someone's been hitting the spiked cider. But here we are: the Holi-Daze multiverse has cracked open, and Dragonfly DGC in Lehi, Utah has become the twilight realm where Krampus's mischievous helpers test disc golfers instead of naughty children. The good news? The tests are mostly just... throwing plastic at metal. The bad news? The sentinels are watching. Always watching.
This is Week 1: Lantern Lit. The first lanterns go up along the fairways, a carved sentinel appears at the first tee with glowing amber eyes, and there's a birch switch tucked into a basket like it's a prize. Bag tags are handed out in random order — because nothing says 'epic saga' like randomized starting positions. The first test? Finish before full dark. Ambitious. I respect it.
Ten Thursdays of winter-adjacent disc golf. The course stays the same; the chaos escalates. By Week 10 we're looking at a full Krampusnacht Feast under a frozen pond and a full moon. That's not a typo — that's the multiverse breach doing what it does.
Dragonfly is a flat, wooded wetland course that plays like the universe's least convenient obstacle course. Eight holes under 300 feet demand precision. Eight more stretch between 300 and 400. And then there's Hole 18 — a 640-foot par-4 finisher that'll make you question every life choice that led you here.
The course was built by volunteers with support from Lehi City and is maintained by the city. It's a community labor of love — which, fittingly, is exactly what this league is testing.
Two pools. Two vibes. One shared multiverse breach.
Both pools play the same Krampusnacht Layout. The only real difference is which comic-book splash page you imagine yourself on when you grip it and rip it.
Entry is $5.50 per week — the 'weekly tribute' that funds the chaos and keeps the drama recreational. Optional add-ons: $5 for prize money, $5 for the ace pot, $2 for the super ace. That's a lot of ways to say 'I believe in my arm more than my life choices.'
This league is run by ElevateUT Disc Golf, a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to growing the sport through better venues and more events. So your $5.50 isn't just feeding the Krampus — it's supporting real course development and community programming. The irony of funding goodwill through a league named after a child-snatching folk figure is not lost on me.
The current ace pot sits at $50 — and here's the thing: that's a floor, not a ceiling. ElevateUT Disc Golf (the league platform) guarantees a minimum $50 ace pot for this league. So even if contributions haven't caught up yet, the pot is locked at $50 minimum. You might see it look 'stuck' at that number early on — that's the guarantee holding the line while buy-ins stack up.
So yes, there's $50 on the line for whoever can park a disc in chains from the tee. In Krampusnacht terms: the chalice awaits. In real terms: throw flat, don't spike it, and maybe don't think about the sentinel watching your run-up.
This league is one of 11 in the Holi-Daze winter anthology — a fractured holiday multiverse where every winter tradition has bled into the wrong genre. Krampusnacht is the folklore corner of that universe: midnight blues, amber lanterns, birch switches, and carved wooden sentinels with opinions about your score.
Your bag tag is your multiverse passport. The number dictates your hierarchy in the breach. The name — think 'Lantern Glow' or 'Switch Keeper' — is your character identity in this ongoing crossover event. Defending or stealing a tag isn't just a leaderboard shift; it's a narrative beat. I'm contractually obligated to say that. The tags themselves are worth it though — carved wood, Krampus silhouette, the works.
The season arc: Week 1's lantern-lighting gives way to switch shuffles, frozen pond skips, sentinel watches, a hidden hoofprint trail, a cider clash, moonlit mischief, a bell toll that unlocks a chest of permanent tags, a winter gauntlet, and finally the Krampusnacht Feast. It's a ten-issue comic run where the heroes are just... disc golfers. And the villain is a folk figure who may or may not be a few league members in costume.
Underneath all the birch-switch theater, this is a community league run by a non-profit that genuinely cares about the sport. The sentinel watch in Week 4 literally requires players to do a good deed before driving — a compliment, a disc return, a shared snack. The hidden point system rewards kindness. The chest at the old oak unlocks permanent wooden bag tags, made for the community, by the community.
The Krampusnacht Feast in Week 10 is a communal meal under the lanterns, a team round with the 'helpers' as captains, and a ceremony where everyone gets their tag and the story of their season. The sentinels stay as permanent guardians of the course. The lore continues. It's absurd, and it's also exactly the kind of thing that keeps a local disc golf scene alive.
So come get tested. Bring $5.50, a disc you trust, and maybe a good deed or two. I'll be in the booth, watching the sentinels watch you. Happy Krampusnacht — and may your chains be loud and your OB be minimal.
From the broadcast booth, I'm Flippy — your reluctant narrator for this ten-week descent into winter. The ON AIR light is on. The cider is warm. The sentinels are watching. Let's play.
The $3.00 platform fee is the only amount here set by ElevateUT Disc Golf. Prize pools, side games, the director's share and any course or community amounts are set by this league's Tournament Director. The PDGA fee is the PDGA's own per-player fee.
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Krampusnacht - Thursday @ Dragonfly
