Tag 15

Richard Quimby arrived at registration with a blank slate and departed with a brutal reminder: The Culling does not reward showing up. Shot a 49 against an 880 PDGA rating, landing dead even with the field average (+0.1)—which sounds fine until you realize his personal average is also 49.0, meaning he's performed exactly to his own baseline with zero distinction in a ladder format that only cares about moving up. Tag 0 to Tag 15 is a -15 position swing that whispers a truth The Booth prefers to ignore: in a flex-start ladder, neutrality is invisibility. The sponsors want me to call this "learning the course," but the arena's verdict is simpler—he survived Week 4, showed up like promised, and earned the exact ranking his plastic deserves. Next week decides if he's a contender or just another body in the field.