Striper Cup standings

[livinit]

Originally Posted by johnny ducketts

Why should you limit who participates?.. After all it's called fishing and not catching.. I should know.. you guys need any bluefish?

25 is an arbritary number, make it 30 or whatever, but there should be a cap. How does having a team like S-B.com who has 100's of members along the entire east coast fair to local teams who do not have the opportunity internet based teams have? One and only way to level it is to put a cap. Have S-B.com have several teams if they have so many members. Have a S-B.com Team 1, Team 2, etc. and possibly start a calcutta between the several S-B.com teams as a side competition. Putting a cap is not limiting participants . . . you can still fish the tournament as an angler. Putting a cap will create more teams, more participants.

[Back Beach]

Originally Posted by livinit

25 is an arbritary number, make it 30 or whatever, but there should be a cap. How does having a team like S-B.com who has 100's of members along the entire east coast fair to local teams who do not have the opportunity internet based teams have? One and only way to level it is to put a cap. Have S-B.com have several teams if they have so many members. Have a S-B.com Team 1, Team 2, etc. and possibly start a calcutta between the several S-B.com teams as a side competition. Putting a cap is not limiting participants . . . you can still fish the tournament as an angler. Putting a cap will create more teams, more participants.

I disagree with a cap. It’s a fun tournament with good competition. As far as the teams go, it’s a trophy only prize. If there were substantial dollar value prizes for the teams, I would agree with you. S-B has a lot of users, but based primarily out of Mass/RI. That's where all of our landings come from, and they are all shore fish.
Technically, you are an S-B member seeing as you posted here, but the core team is really only the 25-30 guys that signed up. As I've said already, lower the ratio on the surf caught fish to 1.15 or 1.2 and the field will be pretty level, IMO.

[Clogston29]

I agree that the factor is too high. 1.2 or 1.15 seam about right to me. Separating things completely into boat and surf would just split things up and take something away from it IMO.

If we do win, do we all get to take the cup for a day and parade it around our towns like the stanley cup?

[Slipknot]

When the rules first came out for this year I said 1.3 was too much. I feel 1.1 is more than enough and I fish from shore.

I disagree with a cap.

If the rules could be more clear and could do away with possible cheating, that would be a plus.

The tournament ends way too early in the year in my opinion and many others. I guess they want me to sign up still as I got an application in the mail yesterday.

[Mike P]

It's just a trophy. They're trying to re-create the spirit of the Schaeffer Cup. The club thing is supposed to be about friendly competition. A club with 100 members of every skill level, or a club with 15 cherry picked high-liners, all of whom are full-time comms in season, and fish 5-6 nights out of season---which has a better edge?

luds and clogston were both good enough and lucky enough to find a body of nice fish that stuck around for awhile--that's the only reason we're in the lead.

All of this back and forth is what's soured me on this, and why I'm on "inactive" status and almost definitely won't enter again. Imagine if there was real money at stake

[zacs]

Mike, don't let a little healthy debate sour you.

It is all in good fun.

[BrianS]

just curious, as ive yet to weigh anything in, what canal area shops do weigh ins? I know M+D's but outside of that I wouldnt know where to go?

[Slingah]

Originally Posted by BrianS

just curious, as ive yet to weigh anything in, what canal area shops do weigh ins? I know M+D's but outside of that I wouldnt know where to go?

here ya go
http://www.onthewater.com/stripercup...rstations.html