The club held it's April meeting last week and there were several significant rule changes that were voted in. The biggest was reducing the entry fees for each tournament from $30 back to $25 for the 2009 season. The big bass pot will be $1 each for first and second big fish, which will be voluntary and not part of the entry fee. The other major rule change was reducing the number of plaques from one in every four entries to one in every five entries per event. The plaques will be capped at five per tournament.
I applaud the membership for recognizing that some tweeking of the tournament rules were needed and hopefully these will ensure good turnouts at our tournaments. The payback schedule will have to be changed a little to accomodate for the lower entry fees, but I don't think it will have a major impact on anything. I will give the entire entry fee breakdown when I confirm it with the president but I believe it goes like this:
$3 - classic fund
$3 - plaque fund
$1.50 - scholarship fund
$17.5 - payback
And remember, entry fees and registration forms for Michigan Center are due April 19th. Give me a call at 787-7878 if any questions.
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Still with the scholarship fund?
ReplyDeleteThe scholarship fund is still $1.50 per entry so we didn't see any reason to mess with it. In a 20 man tournament first place would net about ten extra dollars if this was eliminated, not enough to make a big deal over I thought.
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