Quote Originally Posted by LindaH View Post

If the $85-95 registration is a deal breaker, then would it have mattered if it was in March or October? These are the things the KRA needs to know so that they don't change it to March and then have the same lack of participation. They truly did try to address what they heard last year by making some changes this year, but it didn't seem to help.

Maybe distrust will be the catch 22 that is the death of this tournament before it even had a chance. The fishermen won't fish because they don't trust that ALL of the prizes will be paid and the KRA has to lower the prize money because they can't trust that there will be enough participation to break even and lowering the prize money is one of the reasons that some did not participate. That would be very sad.

Linda,

I think you're attempting to fight some things that can't be fought. There will always be a few bad apples that are convinced someone, somewhere is cheating in an open tournament. That's an inevitable fact of tournaments. You shouldn't take it as a reflection of what you're trying to do. It's simply the way of things in an open tournament. You will NEVER please all of the people all of the time.

This tournament is kind of in a bad situation. We can all appreciate what you're trying to do, but you'll never be able to get around a few issues.

Issue #1 is that there will be someone that complains. It's inevitable.

Issue #2 is that you're holding it on a crappy body of water. There's a whole lot of people that just won't fish the river. I'm one of them. That's not a bad reflection on this tournament, it's just the way it is. I don't want to spend all kinds of money to not catch fish, and have my prop/lower unit damaged by trash in the water.

There are other things about your format that can be tweaked, but you'll never get around these two issues. They'll always be there.