The Houston Canine Disc Club is excited to host a Skyhoundz DiscDogathon 2024 World Qualifier on October 28, 2023, and an UpDog Challenge event on October 29, 2023. The Halloween-themed event will be held at Swanny’s Bar & Grill located at 6224 Theall Road, Houston, Texas. It is a family-friendly event with top handler and canine competitors all coming to enjoy the Halloween festivities.
Saturday’s Skyhoundz games will include 5 games – Bullseye, Freestyle, Pairs D/A, Spot landing, and Time Trial with two world qualifying levels – normal and micro. Saturday evening there is a Howloween Canine Costume Contest, a handler Fidget competition, and tent decorating competition. Sunday’s UpDog Challenge will include 4 games – Pairs 4WayPlay, Greedy, Boom, and Throw N Go.
For more information, rules, scoring, or past results on the Skyhoundz DiscDogation World Qualifier, please visit www.skyhoundz.com. IMPORTANT: Only Hyperflite flying discs are permitted in Skyhoundz Competitions. Check out Hyperflite’s website, www.hyperflite.com, to purchase discs for the Skyhoundz event. For UpDog Challenge, please visit www.updogchallenge.com. The club will have Hyperflite and Hero discs for sale at the event.
Registration the 2023 Bark in the Dark event is closed. Good luck to all the competitors.
There will be on-site day-of-competition registration for Intermediate, Novice and Junior handlers.
The field will open for tent set-up on Saturday morning at 7:30 a.m. The administration tent will be open at 8:00 a.m. and players’ meeting will be scheduled for 8:30 a.m.
Competitors are allowed to decorate their tents in Halloween themes. We will be handing out awards on Saturday and Sunday for best decorated tents. We ask that all decorations stay inside or behind your tents and do not extend towards the playing field. As a reminder, after the Skyhoundz games on Saturday all competitors are invited to participate in a handlers-only competition: fidget spinning. It is a free competition and afterwards we will have the canine costume contest and then awards.
Running orders and schedules of events will published on the club’s Facebook page in the afternoon on Friday, October 27, 2023.
Please check out our frequently asked questions page for answers to common questions such as parking, field set-up, competitor tent set-ups, and rain delays.