Alex Stone shot a 52 for a 966 round rating, +39 over his 927 PDGA rating, which puts this outing in unambiguously awesome territory and bumps Heartwood Gate from #5 to #2. Three places up, and the old oak core didn't move an inch, the standings just came to it. His 52 sat 0.3 strokes above the 51.7 field average and 2.0 above his own 50.0, so the rating did the heavy lifting here, not the raw score. Back in the Green Return week, with the oak scrub swallowing hole 6's basket, that's the kind of steady, unshowy card the Ringwright crew would respect. The booth will be watching whether he can hold that second rung.
Heartwood Gate
Wednesdays at the Fort·Competition group The Ringwright Union·
All-In · only the number moves
Alex Stone
MA1
Season Arc · Wednesdays at the Fort
3
#2Now
#1Best
#4Started
3Weeks
All-In league: Heartwood Gate stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptUnyielding Heartwood of the Ringwright Crew
TroubleRoots Run Too Deep to Move
Notched by Seasons of Challenges
Speaks in Annual Rings Only
Stabilizes Fracturing Season Narratives
The Ringwrights hold that true mastery lies at the center, where early years' growth has compressed into iron-hard grain incapable of further expansion but resistant to all decay.
Drawn in solid black with minimal hatching - the densest woodblock mark possible - showing a central fortress-like structure surrounded by tightly-spaced annual rings like protective walls.
Designates veteran players whose repeated attendance has built irreducible core value to the league - the gatekeepers whose presence stabilizes the season's narrative.
Season Story
narrated by FlippyAlex Stone's 981 round rating came in +54 over rating (927 PDGA), and his 50 was 4.8 strokes better than the 54.8 field average. In Wind Gauge week, he rose from tag #4 to #1, gaining three places; Heartwood Gate's patient permanence has reached the top rung, and the scorecard did the talking.
The Ringwrights forged Heartwood Gate from the center of an old oak—the part that stopped growing and started outlasting. Wood that can't expand can't break. So the tag sits there, dense and patient, watching younger tags get traded like gossip. It's not smug. It's just permanent. And it knows it.
adjusts clipboard Alex Stone picks up tag #4, Heartwood Gate, and the thing just… settles. No ceremony. No spark. The densest woodblock in the league found hands that understand permanent. Some tags get traded like gossip. This one gets carried.
Alex Stone opens the season at tag #4 after a 50 and a 981 round rating—+54 over rating, with 4.8 fewer strokes than the 54.8 field average. That’s a strong first assignment by every supplied measure; Heartwood Gate’s old-oak core has a sturdy starting home. The booth can skip the coronation and just show the receipts.
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