2010 KOTL dates, payouts and rule changes

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Just received this from Yvan, thought I'd pass it along.

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Hello Gentlemen,

Hope Fall Fishing, Hunting, or both seasons have been good to you.

We are excited for 2010!! This year looks promising as 2009 brought us bigger payouts and new venues. It also brought us many new faces and teams and wtih the economy the way it was, thats very positive. We beleive 2010 will continue to grow.

Before we get into whats new, let's reflect on 2009 a little. I would like to congradulate all the winners, you have represented yourselves and your teams very well. Thank You!

Congradulations to our King Of The Lake Overall Champions "Striker" Capt: Eric Marcinkowski for his dedication and victory.

On to 2010.

As you may know we have always looked at ways to improve the series. We have have been proud of many of our changes and we look forward to some of the minor changes for the upcoming year. These are the changes for 2010.

1: Polygragh: We have altered this rule. We have decided to include tournament supplied observers on day 2 of each event to the top 10 teams from day 1. If at that point there is an action that is in question and the team representative doesn't agree with the disqualification there may be an option to take a polygragh at a later date to clear this situation up. This is an explanation of how the rule is to be handled. Basically if you are in the top 10 after day 1 we will put an observer on your boat for day 2.

2: Overall scoring: We have taken a good hard look at making our overall competition stronger and bigger. We want to market this the best we can. In order to increase the field and to bring winnings up we decided to go with the following. Take your best 3 scores for the year. You can fish all five and you take your best 3. To give incentive to the teams that fish all 5 or even 4 we will be giving those teams and additional 10 points for the 4th and another 10 points for the 5th. Thats an additional 20 points for showing up! Enough of an incentive but not too much to compete against if you fish only 3 events. There was 20 teams that fished 2 and another 20 teams that fished 3 events. We think this will hopefully push some teams to enter the overall The payout will be 1: 50% , 2: 30%, 3: 20% (100%) payback

3:Payouts: Last year the goal was to pay our $220 000 in our five events. We fell short of our goal but gave out more money than any other tournament series on the lake. We paid out $146,000 in prize money over the five events and took in $135,000 in entry fees. That's $11,000 more than we took in!!

We are excited about this years payouts. We have brought back (For Free) Saturday and Sunday big box of the day. Last year We found that if you dind't have a good first day it was tough to win any money. This year you can win $2000 for one good day!! As well we based all payouts on 75 teams which has not been done on our end before. We always worked with 100 team payouts and when you don't reach 100 it drops. We are going to use the same 105% again but this payout is more realistic to reach. We had 2 tournaments at roughly 75 teams last year. The winner can still take home $19,000.

Here is the Breakdown

Based on 75 teams

Big Fish Friday

1 - 1000

2 - 625

3 - 375

Sat and Sun Big Box (each day)

1 - 2000

2 - 1000

3 - 500

Overall

1 - 15000

2 - 7000

3 - 3000

4 - 2000

5 - 1000

6 - 1000

7 - 750

8 - 750

9 - 500

10 - 500

DATES

St. Catharines - April 23-24-25

Wilson- May 7-8-9

Whitby- June 25-26-27

Oswego- August 20-21-22

St Catharines- Sept 3-4-5

If there are any other amendments or changes we will notify you as soon as we can but the same format as last year applies.

If you have any questions please email me and I can clarify. Our website will be updated shortly with the new dates.

Thank you

Yvan