Albert falls Classic

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Deceiver

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I see the Classic is on for the last weekend in August, however i have some concerns. First prize is 50000 for the biggest fish, and the biggest bag is 10000. Compared to other years boats and cars, this is significantly less. Now before everyone jumpas around stating i am being a spoilt brat, i quick thing to remember... the entry fee has remanied at 1250! Now for those travelling from Gauteng and need to book accomondation etc etc, your trip is going to cost close to 5-6 grand.

One bag prize, one big fish prize, nothing for the Juniors or the ladies? So now some maths, if 150 boats fish the comp, that will equate to R187500, less the R60k prize money, and lets say 20k for the Marquee, leaves you with R107500, adhoc expenses of 15000, leaves you with R92500. What i want to know is what SABAA are going to do with this revenue?

Please also note this also excludes any sposered prizes, if they have a "boat show" that extra advertising spend they will get.

Surely in these ecomonic times we/sabaa should be looking at reducing the entrance fee, encoureging more anglers to attend, and giving companies like Yamaha, Mercury, Triton, Rapala VMC, and the likes more reason to advertise/sponser these events for the betterment of the bass industry.

I for one am all for SABAA making money which they can put back into the sport, however this needs to be accounted for.

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CarloT

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This is exactly why I'm not fishing it this year. Entry goes up, prize value comes down. Does not make sense!
 
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Vaalboy101

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Look, I have not received any entry forms neither have I been able to confirm the format, but I doubt the guys will only have two prizes.

I cannot see how Ladies, Juniors and luck draws will omitted.
 
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Mombakkie

Senior Member
We had a comp down here recently as well which I didnt enter for the same reasons. Entrance fee was R950.

First prize was R12000(5 fish bag weight). Big fish prize R2000.

There and back is 500km so lets say towing a boat R400 petrol for the vehicle. 50 litres of petrol for the boat gives another R400. Accomodation another R400 for 2 nights. Pluys another R300 for food, tackle and entrance fees to the dam etc. So the weekend costs you R1500.

So if you catch the biggest fish you come home with a net win of R500. Sure you may be a 2 man team so you can share some of the expenses but then you share whatever you win as well.

Not worth it.
 
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HennieS

Senior Member
I was pondering about responding to this post! I know the history of the Albert Falls Tournament well and was also part of the organizing of this tournament at some stage. Firstly I would like to mention the SABAA has never made such a big amount of profit out of Albert Falls, the most they ever did is probably in the region of a fifth of what you estimate. This also only happened once they managed to get some decent sponsors together, before that, the tournament ran at a loss and the prizes were BOUGHT with the entry money.

Speaking about sponsors, all the brands mentioned is USA companies and with the current financial climate I can almost guarantee you that sponsorships will not be forthcoming from those companies. At best they will expect you to pay cost price for whatever price you want. I currently deal with USA companies and the first thing that goes is marketing. The USA and UK is really taking strain in the current financial climate, we have not seen the impact! So be careful to judge and rather wait for SABAA to announce the detail, I am sure they will do their best to keep this Tournament alive and as popular as ever. This is the only official money tournament that SABAA have and they will not let it slip.    
 
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basstacle4see

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Keep in mind that the prize money is spread much wider. In the past the winner took the big prize....the rest of the prizes were consolation prizes in comaparrison. I think the new prize structure will let more people win more, except of course the guy that comes first...my 2c
 
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Vaalboy101

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I spoke to Guy Holmes last night. Apparently the plan is to have 128k worth of cash/sponsored prizes. Biggest fish prizes 1-10, biggest bag 1-3, Ladies & juniors 1-3.

Guys reiterated that this event must be seen for what it is, namely a SABAA fund raiser and that a detailed income/expenditure statement will be available on the SABAA website after the comp.

I am just trying to find an application form at this stage.
 
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