NEW PHOTO AND CAPTION We are back with an all-new series of articles based on the data collected in our annual Fandom Survey. In 2022, we conducted our first Fandom Survey, exploring what about a player draws us in as a fan. What is it about some competitors that cause us to cheer for them while other players – often equally skilled – push us away? This year, we added new sections to the survey to learn what fans think of disc manufacturers, DGN/Jomez Commentators, and several other new lines of inquiry. This series of articles aims to provide insights into disc golf fandom. These insights wil ..read more

The purpose of this article is to explain the rationale behind the questions we asked in the Ultiworld Disc Golf/StatMando Fandom Survey and the demographics of our survey respondents. This article is part of a series that will be released throughout the offseason. Our survey, linked here, was broken down into several sections: Rating Pros: We selected 37 MPO and 20 FPO players and asked the survey respondents, on a ten-point scale, are you rooting against or for them? The professionals included were chosen primarily based on their UDisc World Ranking or place on the DGPT Tour Points Leaderbo ..read more

Read on for GEEO’s suggestions on books to read before you travel to Italy. Our book club is a way for teachers and other participants to learn through literature about the places they will be traveling. Reading about Italy is the next best thing to being there! Reading fiction or nonfiction based on a country gives travelers the context needed to have deeper, richer experiences abroad. It is completely up to the participant whether they choose to read them, as the GEEO book club is not a required element of our programs. We hope our participants will enjoy the books we have sel ..read more

Read on for GEEO’s suggestions on books to read before you travel to Norway. Our book club is a way for teachers and other participants to learn through literature about the places they will be traveling. Reading about Norway is the next best thing to being there! Reading fiction or nonfiction based on a country gives travelers the context needed to have deeper, richer experiences abroad. It is completely up to the participant whether they choose to read them, as the GEEO book club is not a required element of our programs. We hope our participants will enjoy the books we have s ..read more

Read on for GEEO’s suggestions on books to read before you travel to Kenya. Our book club is a way for teachers and other participants to learn through literature about the places they will be traveling. Reading about Kenya is the next best thing to being there! Reading fiction or nonfiction based on a country gives travelers the context needed to have deeper, richer experiences abroad. It is completely up to the participant whether they choose to read them, as the GEEO book club is not a required element of our programs. We hope our participants will enjoy the books we have selected and they ..read more

Read on for GEEO’s suggestions on books to read before you travel to Nepal. Our book club is a way for teachers and other participants to learn through literature about the places they will be traveling. Reading about Nepal is the next best thing to being there! Reading fiction or nonfiction based on a country gives travelers the context needed to have deeper, richer experiences abroad. It is completely up to the participant whether they choose to read them, as the GEEO book club is not a required element of our programs. We hope our participants will enjoy the books we have selected and they ..read more

Read on for GEEO’s suggestions on books to read before you travel on our Canary Islands program. Our book club is a way for teachers and other participants to learn through literature about the places they will be traveling. Reading books about the Canary Islands is the next best thing to being there! Reading fiction or nonfiction based on a country gives travelers the context needed to have deeper, richer experiences abroad. It is completely up to the participant whether they choose to read them, as the GEEO book club is not a required element of our programs. We hope our participants wi ..read more

Read on for GEEO’s suggestions on books to read before you travel to South Korea. Our book club is a way for teachers and other participants to learn through literature about the places they will be traveling. Reading fiction or nonfiction based on a country gives travelers the context needed to have deeper, richer experiences abroad. It is completely up to the participant whether they choose to read them, as the GEEO book club is not a required element of our programs. We hope our participants will enjoy the books we have selected and they will enhance their experience. You should b ..read more

Written by Jesse Weisz This article is part of a series intended to provide insights into disc golf fandom. These insights will come through analyzing a rich data set produced by the first-ever Ultiworld/StatMando fandom survey. Here are the other articles in this series: The Survey Itself And Who Took It Which Pros Do We Root For and Against How Fans See Disc Golf Part 1 How Fans See Disc Golf Part 2 How Gender Affects Who We Root For How Height, Introversion/Extroversion, and Age Correlate With Who Fans Root For Paul McBeth vs. Ricky Wysocki Nikko Locastro Fans Back in October when we were i ..read more

Read on for GEEO’s suggestions on books to read before you travel to Austria. Our book club is a way for teachers and other participants to learn through literature about the places they will be traveling. Reading about Austria is the next best thing to being there! Reading fiction or nonfiction based on a country gives travelers the context needed to have deeper, richer experiences abroad. It is completely up to the participant whether they choose to read them, as the GEEO book club is not a required element of our programs. We hope our participants will enjoy the books we have ..read more