I'm putting on my Bastard Hat and envisioning how a hard-a$$ should run this tournament.
1st - I would setup a Facebook page and the only people I would accept as members would be the B&T's....if you want to be a weigh station....learn to use a computer. They would be required to post every fish weighed in within 24 hours of being weighed in....and it wouldn't cost OTW a thing to implement.
On the water would then update the standings on that same 24 hour interval on their website.
2nd - Seperate the tournament. Team Competition or Monthly Prize, not Both. If you sign up for a team then you fish for that team....not a monthly prize. If you post a fish to your team that isn't big enough to make the top 10...your team gets penalized 10 points and you forfeit your Golden Ticket....you're a "Team"....you should be talking to each other at the very least. If the team competition is all about comraderie then this shouldn't be an issue.
For the Monthly Prize Competition, if you weigh in a fish after 24 hours of the last upodate that doesn't make the top 3 for that previous update for the monthly....you don't get your golden ticket.....sorry, it’s the 21st century, hop on the internet once in awhile....if you aren't internet savvy, then I guess you ain't getting a golden ticket.
Lastly, for the catch and release portion, a Picture would be required to enter a fish. These pictures should then be posted on the OTW website and the Facebook page to promote the C&R aspect of the tournament more Efficiently/Effectively.
These are the rules....if you don't want to play by them then pucker up
Have some fun with this....thats really why I threw this up here just for S&G...but I bet it would make sense on some points.
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