Plastic Hoard

The Hoard Nobody Wanted 🦖

sighs in gills that were not built for cave acoustics Six mercenaries showed up to Buckhorn under warm, calm skies — 79.1°F average, wind barely bothering to exist at 1.5 mph — for an episode called Plastic Hoard, and the name checks out. Forget last week's shadow-the-leader surveillance stunt; this chapter opens with a nest of Discarded Plastic discovered near Hole 12, hard proof that the Raptors aren't just judging your form, they're collecting your worst throws as trophies. New mystery, same feathered contempt. Let's see who fed the nest tonight.

Four Raiders, One Coronation 🥚

Cameron Collar opened with an ace on hole 1 (Par 3, 286ft) and never looked back, taking the lead after hole 3 and riding it wire-to-wire to a career-best -5 at a 990 rating — 85 points above his own number, and the only red ink anyone found on the Super Ace hole (10). A clean, bogey-free back nine capped by a clutch birdie on 18 sealed it. Behind him, Marc Crotta made his debut count, climbing to 2nd by hole 4, absorbing a one-over stumble on that same Super Ace hole, then reclaiming 3rd by hole 11 to lock down the final cash line at +6/887. James Albright rode a five-hole par train (holes 6-10) into 3rd before fading to +8/868, while Chase Richards answered with his own five-hole par train (14-18) to snatch 3rd late — only to land squarely on the cash bubble at +7/877, one spot from the money.

The Lonely Defense 👻

Ruth Hudson was the entirety of RAE, and she still had to earn it — a wire-to-wire win at +8, 868-rated, 23 points below her own 891 mark and a step down from last week's +6/893. She snapped a six-hole cold streak spanning holes 10 through 15, and like the rest of the field, the Super Ace hole (10) refused to cooperate, costing her a shot at the big pot by a single stroke. Rough card or not, the win locked her first successful defense of the RAE crown this season — proof that in the Underdark, showing up and surviving the round matters as much as the scorecard.

Same Raider, Deeper Void 🌀

Bradley Bushman was, once again, the whole of RPA — and once again, that was more than enough. He closed at -7, a 1009-rated round that topped last week's -5/995 by 14 rating points and sat 22 above his own 987. PDGA Live tracked the carnage: sole birdies on holes 4, 5, 9, 14, 15, and 16, two separate hot streaks (4-6, then 13-16) that flared and cooled, and a bounce-back birdie on 18 answering a two-over stumble on 17. Encouraging stat-tracking here isn't just a plug — it's the only reason we know exactly how thoroughly he hunted red numbers across the card.

Numbers That Made Raptors Blink 📊

The night's headline moment is Cameron Collar's hole-1 ace kicking off an 85-points-above-rating masterpiece, arguably the single best story the scorecard told all evening. Bushman's fully-tracked six-sole-birdie round is the kind of detail that only exists because he logged it on PDGA Live — more players doing the same means more of these stories get told right. On the flip side, Chase Richards (34 points below rating) and James Albright (24 points below) both had nights that Buckhorn's tree lanes and water carries chewed up, a reminder this course doesn't hand out mercy to anyone, debut or veteran.

The Super Ace That Wasn't 🎯

Cameron Collar's ace on hole 1 (286ft, Par 3) claimed the Ace Pot for a $154.00 payout, easily the signature flash of the night. The Super Ace hole (10) stayed the villain of the story, with Marc Crotta and Ruth Hudson both landing one-over instead of the jackpot swing — the split pot ticks up to $194.00, building suspense for whoever finally solves that hole.

Relics Reshuffled, Same Hands Win 🔮

Under the AllIn system, every tag gets fully reshuffled based on standings — and both Pool #1 relics still landed right back where they started. Bradley Bushman defended the Void Echo in Pool A, his -7 domination adding another layer of violet lightning to the tag's lore — a relic born from three successful defenses in a season, and Bushman is stacking them like firewood. In Pool B, Ruth Hudson successfully defended the Phantom Threshold for the first time this season, proving that a rougher +8 round can still hold a throne if nobody else shows up to contest it. That's the AllIn mechanic in a nutshell: absence buries you at the bottom, and presence — even an imperfect one — keeps the relic in your hands.

Rain Coming, Raptors Staying ⛈️

Four weeks remain, and this one reset the board — Collar's ace-fueled career round, Bushman's continued Void Echo reign, and Hudson's gritty title defense all carry forward into the back stretch. Next week a storm rolls into the New Hill woods, but word from the nest is the Judges aren't taking cover — every raid continues under torrential scrutiny. And that Discarded Plastic pile near Hole 12? Still unexplained. drops dungeon voice The relic demands a sacrifice... of your stroke count, and apparently your dry socks too.