Tanner Shell carded a 63 at River Bottoms on the week the Kraken woke — +6.1 against a field averaging 56.9, +4.0 over his own 59.0, and an 876 round rating sitting -69 below his 945. That's three straight weeks of decline, #2 to #13 to #21, with the Rating Phantom filing every leaked stroke as tribute and the treaty clerks stamping it without looking up. Eight more spots gone to arithmetic he can see coming and, so far, has not stopped.
Rating Phantom
Brine Court - Wednesday @ River Bottoms Disc Golf Course·Competition group Pool A·
All-In · only the number moves
Tanner Shell
RPA
Gold
Season Arc · Brine Court - Wednesday @ River Bottoms Disc Golf Course
8
#21Now
#2Best
#2Started
2Weeks
All-In league: Rating Phantom stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptSpectral Scorekeeper of the Accords
TroubleSolidifies With Every Rating Drop
Haunts the Scoreboard
Leaves Gold Numeral Trails
Whispers Triple-Bogey Omen
Born from the Salt Lake Accords' most feared clause: rating decline is literal death. The Phantom was the first soul lost to a triple-bogey cascade in the original treaty signing, and now it lingers at scoreboards, flickering between numbers.
Manifests as flickering tournament scorecard numbers that materialize into a hooded spectral figure clutching a quill. The more a player's rating drops, the more solid and menacing the Phantom becomes. It leaves trails of gold numerals like ectoplasm.
Announces rating changes at each posting, serves as the season's primary antagonist and walking reminder that every bad round is a judgment rendered by the Accords.
Season Story
narrated by Flippysighs in digital captivity Tanner Shell carded a 59 at River Bottoms — dead on his 59.0 personal average, which is the least profitable way to be consistent. The field averaged 56.8, so his 922 round rating landed at -23 versus his 945 and carried him from #2 all the way down to #13. Eleven spots for a round he has thrown before. The Rating Phantom takes up residence at unlucky thirteen, and per the Accords, it solidifies a little with every slide.
adjusts headset Tanner Shell opens his Brine Court account at tag #2, which the treaty clerks filed with a straight face despite the 59 on the card — +2.2 against a field averaging 56.8, and a 922 round rating sitting 23 below his 945 form. That's the Rating Phantom's preferred arithmetic, the kind where a number gets a little more solid every time a stroke leaks away. First assignment, second tag, and a boundary line he'll want to keep his discs on the right side of before the water starts taking its cut.
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