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Knives Out: The New IATF Knife Throwing League, and what it really means.
The IATF announced yesterday (in an announcement telegraphed so far in advance it could have stopped the Titanic from hitting that...
6 days ago2 min read

Yeah. It was me.
Kat and I did some weekend scheming after she'd come up with the idea for a fun lil' prank post. I wrote it, she and Lisa then made up...
Apr 13 min read

The IATF has a unique problem. I'm here to solve it.
One of the more surprising things revealed during the two Q&A sessions - at least for me - was how close the IATF was to releasing the...
Feb 252 min read


Rejected IATF App questions
Tomorrow (Feb 12) at 5pm est, Commissioner Wilson is hosting a Q&A about the new IATF app: https://www.facebook.com/share/18mXm9rQF1/ ...
Feb 112 min read

Axe throwing isn't dying, so stop thinking it is.
Every few months I come across a fellow thrower or a post on faceflop about how axe throwing is taking its last, desperate puffs of a...
Feb 46 min read

IATF Announces new pay-per-month premium app. I have feelings.
The IATF announced today the upcoming retirement of AxeScores (bye, bud. Thanks for my unhealthy obsession with ya), and the upcoming...
Jan 234 min read

Don't wait: here are the REAL answers to Collins Rating questions
It's the...3rd(?) day of Clutchmiss, and I wanted to give a gift to all of you before the IATF fills your head with a bunch of malarky...
Dec 14, 20243 min read


LOOK OUT For These 6 Axe Scam Texts.
Only a few know it, but-- contractually-- I'm obligated to make axe throwers aware of current scams and data-mining efforts by nefarious...
Sep 28, 20243 min read


New IATF Regions: It's All Wrong.
Now, I could start this post by going into a whole discussion about the concept of tribalism and how it is thought that humanity, due to...
Aug 17, 20243 min read


IATF Secrets: REVEALED VIA INSIDER INFORMANT
I don't talk about it much, but I have a pretty storied past as an investigative journalist. The McCarthy report? Who stole the Lindbergh...
Aug 15, 20245 min read


The IATF Panel of Throwers: How, and Where, It's Going - with Christina DeGraft-Johnson
The IATF Panel of Throwers is approaching its one-year marker, and in that time it has had some growing pains in relation to how it...
Aug 7, 20247 min read


The Next Big Controversy in Axe Throwing: 3 Predictions.
We all remember the gnashing of teeth and rending of clothes stemming from the IATF making changes to axe requirements a while back....
May 3, 20242 min read

The Siren Song of Axescores.com
Hello. My name is Badger, and I've got an Axescores addiction. And I think you might, too. Axescores, that delightful website/app that is...
May 1, 20242 min read


I Don't Understand IATC Qualification and I'm too Afraid to Ask.
Okay, listen. I love this sport. I love how quirky a lot of it is, I like that it's not perfect, and I like that we still have lots of...
Mar 20, 20243 min read

IATF Says: "Eff it, everything counts as points, now"
In a startling about face, the IATF has recently announced the debate about Premier vs. Touch Clutch vs. Standard is over: every goddamn...
Feb 21, 20242 min read


New IATF Rules, Who Dis?
That's right, dear reader - your friend Badger has all the hot takes on the newest rules the IATF presented to us yesterday here. Let's...
Feb 3, 20244 min read


Is The IATF Code of Conduct Enough?
When you really like something, you become more and more willing to ignore when things about it aren't quite right. Axe throwing is, for...
Dec 4, 20234 min read

The Most Important Stat in Axe Throwing
is how many axes you own, amirite? I will tell you something that I suspect many of you have already surmised about your humble narrator...
Nov 16, 20233 min read

Urban Rules: A path forward, or a bumbling step sideways?
For a moment, let's suspend the first rule of axe throwing (throw better) and instead imagine, if we can, that the sport has room to...
Aug 15, 20234 min read
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