The Upshot

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas welcome in three distinguished tournament directors that have run World Championships — Doug Bjerkaas, Jeff Spring, and Nate Heinold — for a roundtable discussion about what it takes to run a top tier professional event and how the TD world is changing.

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas welcome in three distinguished tournament directors -- Jussi Meresmaa, Sean Jack, and Steven Storrie -- for a roundtable discussion about what it means to be a TD in 2019 and the challenges facing the "profession."

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas welcome in the holidays on their final standard format show of 2019. Charlie also gets a boatload of disc suggestions for his new bag as the guys go shopping.

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas talk about Catrina Allen's return to Prodigy and some other FPO signings before chatting with Steve Dodge (13:18) about leaving the Disc Golf Pro Tour, dealing with criticism, and his new board game, Birdie.

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas talk about the latest player transaction news before discussing the effects of switching bags on players' games, based on data from the 2019 season.

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas react to Paige Pierce's new deal with Discraft and what it means for the FPO division. Later, they open up some listener mail and give thanks during this holiday week.

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas discuss Paige Pierce's departure from Dynamic Discs and what it means for her and the company. They also touch on other player extensions before digging into Steve Dodge's op-ed calling for the PDGA to suspend the National Tour. Later in the show, Madison Walker stops by to talk about women's disc golf, her 2019 season, and more. (44:50)

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas welcome in Nikko Locastro fresh off the news that he will be sponsored by Westside Discs in 2020. Later in the show, the guys talk about the 2020 National Tour media announcements.

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas talk college disc golf and the start of the 2020 offseason hot stove. Drew Gibson stops by for an interview about his new Infinite Discs deal (16:18).

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas look back at the 2019 season, the major storylines, the statistical stars, the big winners, and more. Plus, some chatter about where disc golf is headed when top players decide to leave the tour.

Jamie Thomas holds it down solo on this week's show and discusses the 2019 Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship and his three week trip for the final stretch of the disc golf season.

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas discuss the Hall of Fame Classic and the final National Tour standings before turning their attention to this weekend's Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship in Charlotte. The end of the season is almost here! Note: Jamie is on the road and had some audio difficulties this week. Sorry for the volume inconsistency!

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas dive deeper into the USDGC, including some under-the-radar storylines, a review of the course, and more thoughts on James Conrad's victory. Later in the show, they take a look at the 2020 schedule before diving into some thoughts on the final National Tour event of the season, the Hall of Fame Classic.

Charlie Eisenhood and James Conrad talk about the final round of the US Disc Golf Championships with 2019 champion James Conrad!

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas break down a wild moving day at the 2019 USDGC. Tournament leader James Conrad stops by for a chat before he chases his first major on Saturday.

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas break down the second round of action at the 2019 USDGC!

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas come to you live from the 18th fairway at Winthrop Gold at the 2019 US Disc Golf Championships. Featuring guest Nathan Queen.

Charlie Eisenhood rolls solo for the 2019 USDGC preview show, looking at the betting odds for the top 10 players and giving his thoughts on what we might see unfold in Rock Hill!

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas discuss Kristin Tattar's win at the US Women's Disc Golf Championships before turning to a conversation about the changes to this year's USDGC course and media structure.

Charlie Eisenhood (back from his honeymoon) and Jamie Thomas dive into a preview of the US Women's Disc Golf Championships, including an interview with Spotsylvania Disc Golf Club VP Kristen Parsley (27:02). Also: how does Paige Pierce's nine tournament win streak this year compare to last year's? And a look at the GMC, including another dominant performance from Paul McBeth.

While Charlie enjoys his honeymoon, Jamie schemes to cover events on the East Coast, Sean Jack stops by to break down the MVP Open, and some reactions to the 500k Show topic. Be sure to visit DiscGolfPins.com to pre-order the limited edition Upshot Pin!

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas welcome in four listeners for our 500,000 listens episode! Hear from Zach about marketing around "sponsored" professionals (2:27), Kevin about moving pins from round to round (16:30), Zach about a European mini-tour during the season (27:36), and Gabe about the future of the amateur divisions and ratings-based competition (40:19).

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas kick the 500K listens episode to next week after the big news this week about Steve Dodge selling his majority stake in the Disc Golf Pro Tour. New DGPT CEO and Tour Director Jeff Spring comes on to talk about the future of the Tour (4:04) before the guys give their thoughts on the news (44:04). Plus, chatter about the Delaware Disc Golf Challenge and this weeken...

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas break down more aspects of the World Championships after Paul and Paige both went 5x, including Ricky Wysocki's sublime play in the final two rounds, Catrina's putting woes, an analogy to basketball, and more. Later in the show, the guys talk about the Delaware Disc Golf Challenge and its unfortunate timing for the second straight year plus some mail from the mai...

Charlie Eisenhood and Jamie Thomas discuss the final round of the 2019 PDGA Pro World Championships!