A monthly one-off, somewhere between a league night and a tournament. Short, cheap, and over in a morning.
Minis rotate around the region’s courses through the season. They run as a single round, entry is a few dollars, and the whole thing is done by lunchtime — which makes them the easiest event to try if you have never played anything with a scorecard before.
What actually happens
A tournament in shape, not in scale
You arrive, you are put on a card with two or three other people, and you play one round while keeping each other’s scores. That is the part a league night does not teach you: writing somebody else’s score down, calling your own lie, playing your own disc from where it landed rather than picking the better one.
Nobody is timing you, there is no players’ pack to collect and nothing rides on it. If you have played a few Wednesdays and wondered what a tournament is like before paying tournament money to find out, this is the answer.
Worth knowing
The cheap way up the standings
A mini is worth 15 season points against a league night’s 10, and members score double on both. A membership also includes free entry to one mini a season, so the first one costs a member nothing at all.
Check in the same way you would at a league night — scan the code on the sign at hole one — and the points land on the standings table before you get home.
This season
Dates, courses and entry fees go on the events calendar as each one is set, and are announced in the Fredericton Disc Golf Community group on Facebook. If you are not on Facebook, email us and we will tell you what is on.
Bring three discs and something to drink. Everything else — a scorecard, a pencil, somebody to explain the rule you are unsure about — is there when you arrive.