Guys the best way to convince someone to stop doing something great is to complain or nit-pick at the rules. Take it from someone who does a 140% + payout tournament and is amazed when people complain about little things. That 140% payback does not take into account the $40,000+ in expenses we absorb for putting all of these on as well.

I'm pretty sure the people doing the Big Cash Tournament ( I have never met any of them so I can't be accused of anything) are putting in some major time putting this together, have plenty of expenses after seing the fliers and paid out major cash for fishing on the river, way over 100% payback.

Everyone complains that tournaments like this aren't around and then when they come to your neighborhood you complain about small things that are apparently in the rules.

Just don't complain if they cancel the tournament next year based on the complaints, I know a lot of people who stopped doing great tournaments because of the headache and constant bashing they took by anglers.

From everything I've seen it looks and sounds like they ran an awesome tournament with a crazy low turn-out for that kind of money and spent a lot of time and money to get to that point. Let's be thankfull for what we have.

The glass can't always be half empty.

Matt