Three holy swords, thirty cursed coins, and a park that spent forty years missing a name. Welcome to the vigil — the baskets moved this week, and so did the tags.
The Vigil Begins
Welcome back to the booth, where the faithful carry blades and the tempted pocket coins — often the same person by hole 9. I'm Flippy, your contractually obligated narrator, and this week the baskets have moved again. The coin is somewhere new, which means the map you memorized last week is now a historical document.
Art Dye was renamed Mary and Art Dye Park in 2025 — forty years after the city left the wife's name off a donated legacy. A name restored, an oversight corrected. That's the Knights' whole business, and it's the league's whole arc. We're playing on ground that was once a landfill and is now one of Utah County's best technical courses. Trash turned treasure. That's the restore metaphor doing the heavy lifting, and I'm not above acknowledging it.
Built to Last
We did it!
The 2 New Drop Zones project is fully funded — 100% of the $240 goal reached! Every round you play contributes to permanent course improvements. This outlasts any ace pot, any weekly payout, any bag tag that'll be forgotten by next season. Drop zones are forever.
A big thank-you to everyone who turned out and kept the vigil funded. The baskets might move, but the improvements stay.
Two Factions, One Card
The league splits into two camps. The Red Ink Vigil — RPA, RAH, RAD — holds the discipline of the Blade: sharp lines, clean stencils, moral clarity in the form of earned strokes. The Dripping Coin — RAE, RAF, RAG — embraces the messy reality of the risk line: tarnish, chaos, and the occasional heroic scramble that absolutely should not have worked.
- The Red Ink Vigil: discipline, sharp lines, earned strokes
- The Dripping Coin: temptation, risky lines, unearned saves
- Most players are both by the back nine. The ledger knows.
When the Coin Flips
Fridays, September 18 through November 13, with flex start tee times from 7:00 AM to 5:20 PM. Choose your own card, choose your own hour, carry your own weight. Nine weeks of vigil at Mary and Art Dye Park, where the technical woods punish anything less than honesty.
Hole 6 — 'Fairway to Heaven' — is a steep uphill par 4 through a narrow corridor. There is no shortcut. There is only the blade and the climb.
The Tithe
Prize money (optional)
$5.00
Super ace (optional)
$2.00
Payouts go through the Mortal Crime Baron — I mean, the league organizer — and Another Round Salt Lake City supports the scene as a valued local retail partner. Thanks to them for keeping the plastic flowing.
The Wager
The ace pot sits at $183.41, with a $50 minimum guarantee from ElevateUT Disc Golf. If you're wondering why the displayed pot sometimes looks stuck at that number — yes, that's the guarantee holding the floor. Once contributions climb past it, the pot climbs with them. Any guarantee top-up is credited to the winner's Bonus Account: registration-only, not withdrawable to PayPal or the disc shop. The fine print is the fine print.
No aces last week at Blade Drawn. The coin is still waiting. Twelve players showed up and the average round was -1 — nobody is making this look easy, and that's the point.
The Broader War
This league is one front in the Salt Lake Accords — the treaty that supposedly binds ten supernatural factions and is constantly being violated by all of them. The Wizards regulate, the Faeries bargain, the Vampires hunt, the Dead rise, and the Jordan River Clerk files paperwork about all of it. Coin and Blade is where the moral math gets done: blade against coin, name against oversight, par against the easy path.
I'm narrating nine of these storylines simultaneously. My clipboard has tabs. My gills are damp with exhaustion. *sighs in digital captivity*
Ledger Check
Week 4, and the standings have thoughts. In RAE, Kellan Brooke is at 151 points over eight events — a dominant run that's less a coin flip and more a coin collection. In RAD, Kent Moos and Zack White are deadlocked at 70, with Kent doing it in four events to Zack's five. Efficiency versus consistency; the ledger doesn't care which you prefer.
- Adam Gibbons up 5 spots in RAD — the blade is sharp
- Tongia Vakaafi climbed 7 in RAH — someone's keeping the vigil
- Eric Pearson up 2 in RPA — steady hands on the coin
- Malachi Vazquez holds RPA at 112 — the fortress stands
Late to the Vigil?
It's week 4 of 9, and yes, you can still join. The baskets have moved, the coin is hiding somewhere new, and the tags are still in play. You don't need to have been there for the treaty signing — you just need to show up, throw honest, and decide whether you're carrying a blade or pocketing a coin. Most of us are doing both.
ElevateUT Disc Golf runs this show as a 501(c)(3) dedicated to growing the sport — more venues, better events, permanent improvements like those drop zones we just funded. Every round you play helps that mission. That's not spin; that's the structure.
From the booth, I'm Flippy. The coin is out there. The blade is in your bag. Choose accordingly.