Minnesota Disc Dog State Champs 2025 Competitor Information

Roxanne
Sep 9, 2025
5 min read

Updated: Sep 17, 2025

Get in Disc Doggers, we're going camping!

Welcome to Camp Champs 2025! We're so excited to for your to join us at this year's Minnesota Disc Dog State Championships! Our theme this year is Summer Camp! This is your official welcome letter and will have all the information you need to know before and during the event.

Location

Ham Lake Resort

2400 Constance Blvd NE Ham Lake, MN, United States, Minnesota 55304

Link to Resort Info

Dates

September 19th Evening

September 20th All Day

September 21st All Day

Map

Schedule

Friday

1:00pm - Check in Begins

3:00pm - Fireball followed by 4WayPlay Pairs

5:30pm - Human Games

6:30pm- Trivia

Awards to follow Trivia

Saturday

8:00am - Pancake Breakfast

9:00am - Games Start

6:00pm - Potluck + Awards

Game Schedule:

Blue Field	Green Field
Freestyle Greedy Frizgility - Flex Field	4WayPlay - Pam Plan Frizgility - Flex Field

Sunday

8:00am - Pancake Breakfast

9:00am - Games Start

5:00pm- Awards

Game Schedule:

Blue Field	Green Field
Freestyle Throw N Go Time Warp - Flex Field	Spaced Out - Pam Plan Time Warp - Flex Field

New for 2025!

We have implemented some changes to this year's state champs to allow more teams to play while also still appreciating the camaraderie that comes from playing a single field.

Pam Plan - We will be running the Pam Plan during Freestyle. A style of event running that was created by Pam Martin with USDDN to help eliminate the “dead time” during Freestyle judging after the round has ended. We want our judges to feel like they have the time to write meaningful and thoughtful feedback and focus on scoring without rushing, and the Pam Plan allows that AND the ability to run more dogs. The short summary: after a Freestyle team has finished and cleared the field, a non-FS dog will play a round of a 60 second game. Once that round finishes, assuming the FS judges are ready, the next Freestyle team will take the field. Play continues in this alternating style. The Pam Plan is not walk up style - there will be a set run order for the duration of Freestyle and the 60 second game. For Freestyle teams or judges, they will run their game round after FS has finished to ensure we aren’t overworking their dogs or rushing anyone after they’ve judged.
Flex Field - We will also be running a Flex Field for one game each day (Frizgility on Saturday & Time Warp Sunday). The flex field game will be setup as follows; two identical fields that are prepped for play of the same game, but only ONE dog plays at a time, and both fields have a set run order. When the team on Blue Field finishes their round, their priority will be to leash their dog, leave their discs, and get off the field. Then, the dog that is ready on Green Field immediately starts their round. When the Green Field dog is playing, disc runners will clear the Blue Field discs and the next dog will get set up and ready to play. Once Green Field, dog ends and is leashed, the Blue Field dog unleashes and plays their round. Play continues in a repeated fashion of back and forth play between the two fields. There will be a fence set up between fields to help with visual barrier, but the field set up will allow our members to enjoy watching BOTH fields of play without it feeling like a 2-field event. Both fields will have sufficient buffer space per UpDog rules as well. Dogs that need space will be strategically placed in the run order to promote success - but please know, only ONE dog will be off leash at a time with this set up. Flex Field is fully run order - none of these rounds will be walk up style.
Disc Runners - this is an official volunteer position at State Champs with 2 people assigned per game half, similar to how we schedule a Head Judge, timer, line judge, etc, that are solely in charge of picking up discs and bringing them to the designated table for teams to pick up later. We are asking our teams for a new exit strategy for any game with 4 or more discs to NOT pick up discs after your round ends, but instead leash up your dog and leave the field. Disc Runners will grab all of your discs for you! Focus on leaving the field so the next dog can get ready.

FUN STUFF AND AWARDS!

State Champion - Determination & Divisions

The top placing Pro team will be crowned State Champion. Overall winners for Intermediate and Novice will also be awarded.

Winners will be determined by their scores in Freestyle (50%) and their best three games of the six games played on Saturday and Sunday (50%). Playing both days of champs gives you more points towards that overall award! Friday games won't count towards overall winners for Champs. They're just for fun but will still receive game points and placements.

Divisions - We will be assigning divisions to teams based on their past scores. We are using UpDog's Triple Crown criteria to determine placement in divisions. You MAY play up divisions, you may not play down divisions once it's been determined for your team(s).

Awards for Everyone!

EVERY SINGLE PLAYER will receive a special camp themed award that they can add their placements and awards to all weekend long. We'll be awarding up to 5th or 10th place in each division (based on sign up numbers) and we have special award types to hand out as well! Our goal is that each player goes home with great memories, accomplishments, and things to be proud of from the event.

Games & Special Awards

Link to all the fun stuff & award previews

Run Orders

Please click the link below to view the current run orders. The run order is subject to change! If you have concerns, questions, or would like to request changes made to the run order please see below for contact information.

Run Orders!

Withdraw & Refunds Deadline - Friday September 12th

Requests must be made via email to MNDDC.President@gmail.com

Deadlines for Changes to Run Order:

Wednesday Sept 17th

Please DO NOT message event hosts on Messenger or leave comments on Facebook posts to make changes to run orders, divisions, withdraws, etc.

Thank you!

Rules

Please see below for links to the various rules and guidelines for all of the games being played at State Champs. It is the player’s responsibility to read the rules prior to the event. Event hosts will be available to help with questions. The UpDog Challenge website also has Virtual Player’s Meetings to watch on Youtube.

UpDog Challenge -

General Rules - Freestyle

Time Warp - Greedy - Throw N Go - Spaced Out