Get some sleep

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by scottw

just doesn't make any sense...the tournament is months long and actually a series of weekly/monthly tournaments...OTW allows registration throughout the tournament(which makes perfect sense given the nature of the tournament and for maximum participation).... I'm sure that many anglers decide to register throughout the season as a result of joining a club or encouragement from a competing team, your rules would not allow new registrants after the first day (or month) to join a club/team which might discourage participation, which I'm sure is not the goal of OTW....if you make an exception for new registrants and allow them to affiliate with clubs/teams after one of your dates, it hardly seems justifiable to allow them(new registrants) to join a team after one of your dates while not allowing previously registered but unaffilitated anglers to affiliate, the only difference between the two is the date on their registration.....and in both cases, as long as any fish that is being entered is caught after the date of registration/affiliation, why would it matter ???????

Because the club tournament is run separately from the individual one, with separate standings. Ideally, it would be limited to legitimate fishing clubs, like the Schaeffer Cup was, with membership rosters and meeting halls. With dues, and by-laws, and all the rest of the trappings of fishing clubs. Perhaps even a vote among existing members on new members. Then, you could allow adding members to the team roster, after they join a real club. But since they allow, in effect, "pick-up" teams, there has to be a cut-off date to make it a fair contest. If I'm a heavy hitter, I can sit on the sidelines, see how the standings shape up, and then offer my "services" to a team that wants to make a mid-tournament push on a team that's been together since the start. Why does every professional sports league have a trading deadline?