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Originally Posted by intrepid24
I'll throw this out there, and it is not accussatory, but the idea of a club w/ ~hundreds~ of members who have no idea of who their members are(personally or at all) having signed up, and some in both divisions does raise some thoughts.......
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Which club are you referring to? To me its a fun tournament and I could care less if a club has 5 or 500. The club portion of the striper cup is simply for bragging rights only, no $$ involved.
Its the big $$ prizes some people will most certainly be cheating at in order to win. When you consider its a coastwide tournament and there's countless weigh stations with obvious disparities between all of them, it just opens the doors for bad behavior.
Look at the Vineyard Derby for example...there's what, 2 weigh stations and any leading fish is dissected and checked for alterations before going on the leader board. Still, people cheat and get busted at the MV Derby even though they're under a microscope....how do you think the striper cup will fare with regard to quality control? The possibilities for abuse are endless.
If I remember correctly, it was one of the smaller clubs (15-20 guys) of "professional" fishermen who had a team member busted for poaching. So much for club size.
Just in case Sea Dangles thinks I'm changing my mind, I'd like to remind him I'm still in and look forward to the tournament...