The Sweep Wasn't So Final After All 🧹
adjusts headset Per the file I'm legally required to read aloud... the Final Sweep didn't come with a fresh roll call so much as a stampede: after two straight weeks of empty ledgers — Week 7 and Week 8 logged zero signatures — ten agents reported for duty at Urban Forest on Monday, August 24. Temperatures ran from 80.6°F up to a sweltering 93.9°F, gusts touched 16.8 mph through the cottonwoods, and for the first time in weeks there was actually a perimeter worth securing. The directive for the night: lower-ranking agents get reassigned to desk duty while the elite hold the line. The elite, apparently, came in a group of ten.
The Least Redacted File of the Night 🕵️
Chris Fox earned round-of-the-day honors in RPA with a personal-best -5 (938-rated), surviving a six-lead-change tug-of-war with David Wetzel. Fox led through hole 3; Wetzel answered through 6; Fox pulled even through 7, reclaimed the lead through 10, watched Wetzel tie it again through 11, then sealed control through 12. His cleanest file of the year was powered by two 39-foot Circle 2 putts — on holes 10 and 14 — and solo birdies on 3, 7, 10, and 14. John Ashworth finished one back at -4 (926-rated), matching the clean front nine and closing with back-to-back unique birdies on 17 and 18 to lock second. All three RPA agents posted clean front nines. All three also bogeyed the Super Ace hole 13. This bureau has a sense of humor.
A Double Bogey Didn't Stop the Audit 📊
Russell Watters took RAE at -2 with a 901-rated round — 34 points above his 867 rating — and he did it the hard way. After a double bogey on hole 3, he birdied hole 4 immediately, rode a three-hole hot streak through 7–9, pulled even with Jon Atwater through 13, took the lead through 14, and closed the file with a five-hole par train from 14–18. Atwater finished at even (877-rated), sharing the early lead with Ene Betham through 3 before grabbing it outright through 5, adding solo birdies on 2 and 10 — but a double on the Super Ace hole 13 cost him the lead through 14. He still locked the final cash spot in 2nd. Betham carded a clean front nine and a nine-hole par train (1–9), yet finished one spot outside the money in 3rd. Kieran Buhler found OB on holes 13 and 14 and finished +9, 116 points below his rating — a file best left in the shredder.
Desk Duty? Not at These Ratings 📈
Clint Atwater led RAF through hole 4, Jacob Vehar took over through 6, and Josh Aram grabbed the lead through 7. Then the carousel spun: Vehar led again through 9, Aram pulled even through 10 and 14, and Aram finally took the lead for good through 17, finishing -1 with an 889-rated round — 48 points above his 841 rating. Vehar was the pool's rating story, though: +1 (864-rated) while shooting 60 points above his 804 rating, powered by solo birdies on 6 and 12. Atwater finished +4 in 3rd, one spot short of cash. Somewhere, a desk-duty reassignment form was filed in error.
The Super Ace Hole Filed Complaints 🎯
Hole 13 played the day's shared villain: bogeys across RPA, a double for Jon Atwater, and over-par grievances filed from every pool. Russell Watters did find the lone birdie on Pool B's other tough test, hole 11 (+0.6 average). The rating ledger was the real headline — Jacob Vehar (+60), Josh Aram (+48), and Russell Watters (+34) all soared above their ratings while Kieran Buhler fell 116 points below his. Chris Fox's -5 was a personal best on the layout, and round-of-the-day honors went to Fox in RPA (938), Watters in RAE (901), and Aram in RAF (889). All that throw-by-throw detail — the C2 putts, the scrambles, the evidence — comes from agents logging rounds on PDGA Live. Feed the evidence locker, people. Empty stat fields make for very boring files.
Super Ace Pot: Still Unsolved, Still Growing 💰
The Super Ace Pot grew from $2,142.00 to $2,156.00, with seven contributors keeping the split-pot alive for the season's biggest payday — and nobody claimed it. Hole 13 handed bogeys to Chris Fox, John Ashworth, David Wetzel, Russell Watters, Ene Betham, and Kieran Buhler, plus a double to Jon Atwater. The pot rolls into the Week 10 finale, compounding like a cold case nobody can close.
Pool A's #1 tag, "Pending Review," is still pinned to Chris Fox — but this was no routine defense. His 938-rated round (13 strokes over rating, 1.3 below the field average) finally convinced Protocol 17-C to stamp the amber limbo file upward: the tag moved to The Directorate's #1, gaining three positions without losing any. The flickering badge's ever-resetting countdown timer can haunt someone else's file now. In Pool B, Russell Watters kept the #1 "Cover Sheet" tag by winning RAE outright at -2 (901-rated). Under AllIn reshuffle rules, absence is demotion — anyone who skipped the Final Sweep got buried at the bottom of the stack, and the bureau has the paperwork to prove it. 
Survive the Audit or Become Ink ⏳
The Final Sweep is logged, the files are nearly sealed, and Week 10 looms as the season's final Audit. The directive is explicit: those who survive get promoted; the rest become redacted ink on a forgotten page. Show up, play clean, log your throws on PDGA Live, and make sure your file is worth reading — because next week, everything gets redacted.
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