"go-bassn" wrote in message
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No different from any other sport that uses a bracket format (tennis,
pool,
ncaa basketball etc). How bout that $500k prize though!

Well, there is a slight difference--in all those sports, the opponents face
each other and influence how the others play, thus actually defeating them.
I can't think of another sport that parallels fishing, with the total weight
component.

500k is a huge prize, but I wonder if that's the right way to do it. I know
they get lots of ink with that payoff, but the 2nd place got just 10% of
that, whereas the Classic paid 2nd place 25% (I think) of 1st place. Golf
tournaments pay a much higher % of the 1st prize to other top finishers.
Those are just observations, I don't know what the "right" way is, if there
even IS a right way. What if they dropped 1st prize down to 300k, say, and
spread the wealth around a little more? I just don't know.