The Grid Hums, Reluctantly 🖥️

sighs in digital captivity Seven wizards logged into the St. Francis DGC in Orangeville midway this week, more than doubling last week's four-player tutorial run, under a mild 75.8°F sky and a barely-there 6 mph breeze. The FL!PT power grid that flickered to life in Week 1 is now fully humming, baskets pulsing like ring-toss targets while the season's discovery phase quietly fills its roster. No new conflict yet — just more competitors stepping through the portal, which is apparently how this glitchy carnival grows.

Beating Your Own Ghost, Again

Steven Hedstrom won RAF solo for the second straight week, but this time the story is the round itself: a personal-best 871-rated performance at +3, three strokes worse on paper than his Week 1 +9 but a career-high rating. He rode a five-hole par train through 1–5, shook off a four-hole cold streak that finally broke after hole 9, and closed with a front nine that finished five strokes better than his back. His ghost rating came in at 809; he beat it by 62, and that ghost now grows stronger, holding at 821. Personal-best language aside, the man is still the only wizard in the room — six weeks remain to find him some company. 🔮

New User, Barely Cleared Onboarding

Zachary Mulder claimed RAD in a lone-entrant field at +3, an 871-rated round that sat 41 points below his 912 player rating. Below-form or not, he held the final cash spot and posted the division's Round of the Day — wire-to-wire, since there was nobody else on the card to contest it. RAD is still a party of one; the invitation to join stands wide open. 🎪

The Flux Stabilizers Get Flux-ier

Mark Zinck took RAE at +1 with an 894-rated round, 34 points above his rating and easily the day's best mark, edging a tie between David Devroy and Macey Zinck at +3 and Gabriel Hernandez at +4. The lead changed hands like a carnival shell game: Devroy took it from Hernandez after hole 5, Hernandez dropped his share of it with a bogey the same hole, Mark Zinck pulled even through hole 7, then seized it outright after hole 8 when Devroy's own bogey opened the door. Macey and Gabriel spent the round trading third place through holes 6, 7, 11–15, and 17 like it was a revolving door, and Mark's sole birdie on the punishing hole 13 (235ft, field average +0.6) proved decisive, while Macey answered a rough 13 with an immediate bounce-back birdie on 14. Devroy, last week's CTP winner, again shares the final cash line — this time in a tie rather than a solo hold. ⚡

Firmware Update Nobody Approved 🛠️

Andy Zinck went wire-to-wire in RPA at -4, the day's best score by a wide margin and, per the tag record, 3.5 strokes clear of the 55.5 field average with his 52-stroke round. His 951 rating sat 18 points below his own 969 player mark — a below-form number that still bought him the division win and, as it turns out, a lot more than that. More on that in a moment. 🎩

The Grid Logs a Hot Round

Steven Hedstrom's 871-rated round wasn't just a personal best — it was marked the hottest National-entry round of the event, the best baseline beat, and the largest National rise recorded here, a +62 differential against his 809 effective baseline. That performance added 50 National points, moving his National score from 0 to 50 net, and advanced his qualification progress from 0 to 1 of the 4 valid rounds required. He remains unqualified with no National position on the board yet, and provisional paid-cohort status stays unchanged at false — the grid noticed him, but the map still says unranked. 📡

Seven New Users, Zero Crashes

Four division titles, four different winners — Steven Hedstrom, Zachary Mulder, Mark Zinck, and Andy Zinck each walked away with the top spot in their pool, and the field nearly doubled from last week's four to this week's seven. If you're one of the wizards tracking throw-by-throw detail on PDGA Live, keep it up — the richer the data, the sharper this booth gets at telling your story next time. 📊

The Pot Grows, the Ace Doesn't

David Devroy picked up the CTP payout for $7.00 in RAE, a tidy consolation on top of his tied-for-second finish — proof that even a shared lead can still cash a side bet. 💵

The Throne Reshuffles Completely 👑

Under AllIn reshuffle rules, both bag tag pools flipped this week. Andy Zinck claimed the Twilight Jester in Pool A, jumping from tag #2 to #1 on the strength of that 52-stroke round — 3.5 strokes better than the field average, with a 951 rating sitting 18 points below his 969 mark. The Jester itself is the midway's arbiter of threshold moments, robes shifting between mystical purple and carnival orange, its three-pointed cap tracking past, present, and future — a fitting fit for a below-form round that still bought a promotion. Over in Pool B, Mark Zinck now holds the Shadow Weaver, the mystical force said to manipulate the shadows between carnival booths — a fitting companion tag for a wizard who spent his round manipulating the RAE lead board instead. No tag is safe two weeks running; ask anyone who sat this one out.

FL!PT Charms

Week 2 closes with Steven Hedstrom's personal-best ghost-beating round, a completely reshuffled bag tag hierarchy, and the National race logging its first live entry. None of it stays quiet for long — next week's gathering returns to the same St. Francis DGC in Orangeville, where the season's storyline shifts from grid activation to something stranger: gloating holographic charms embedded in the terrain, revealing corrupted shortcuts and unpredictable disc behavior under acid-green lights, all while the charms synchronize into a warning pattern about a power surge building in the Michigan grid that could physically reshape the course before the next round. Registration is open at /LeagueEvents/Register?leagueEventId=2874 — because apparently the midway's next con job is a whole event named after loot boxes.