Team Trout Slayer Brigadoon Lodge Fly Fishing Tournament

[Marc Thompson]

***PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE POST BEFORE RELPYING***

Brigadoon Fly Fishing Tournament
Date:  Saturday, March 17, 2012
Where:  Brigadoon Lodge, 8137 Highway 197, North Clarkesville, GA 30523 http://brigadoonlodge.com/
Time: 7:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
- 10 teams of two people
- Entry fee is $150 per team
- Participant-judged event:  Fish, Judge, Fish, Judge
- 5 beats
- 2 hours fishing allowed for each session, with 30 minute break in-between
- Beat drawing will start at 7:15 a.m. on Saturday.  One team member must be present from each team at the drawing.
- Fishing will start at 8 a.m. for the first session

The Brigadoon Fly Fishing Tournament is a one-day event, which will permit two-person teams to match their skills against other teams. Team awards will be given for 1st ($500.00), 2nd ($300.00), and 3rd ($150.00) place.
A minimum of eight teams will be needed for the tournament to take place. A maximum of 10 teams will be permitted.   
A non-refundable registration and entry fee for each team is required. Registration details can be found at the bottom of this page.

Rules:   FIPS-Mouche rules will be followed, with the addition of:
- All trout must be released within 90 seconds from the time the fish is presented to the judge for scoring.
- No littering, and competitors and judges must do everything to maintain bank integrity.
- Any competitor blatantly damaging property or harming trout will be asked to leave.


To register for the competition:
Please email your registration request to comps@teamtroutslayer.com with the following information...
Your name, your teammate's name (if available), the team you are representing (if applicable), and if you desire to be on a waiting list if the competition has already filled up.
You will receive an auto-reply to let you know your registration has been received so please add comps@teamtroutslayer.com to your safe-senders list. This is also where your confirmation of enrollment will come from as well as payment details for enrolled teams.

We will list the registered participants and waiting list as soon as we get them.

***REPLYING TO THIS THREAD/TOPIC WILL NOT REGISTER YOU FOR THE COMPTETITION***

[Ben Vandevender]

Sign me up!

[Jamie Sullivan]

Sign me up.  I'll let you know later who my teammate is.

[Mark Adams]

Please sign up Mark Adams and Bret Nelson as a team.  Team Lard A$$ plans to be there.
Thanks,
Mark

[Joey Walraven]

Email sent...

[Jim Hlavacek]

Sign me up!

[Scott Brown]

Sign up Me and Pat!

Email sent & confirmed

[Pat Brechbill]

Yea, sign me and Scott up. Thanks

[Mark Adams]

Please sign up Mark Adams and Bret Nelson as a team.  Team Lard A$$ plans to be there.
Thanks,
Mark

PS. Did send e-mail immediately after posting

[Marc Thompson]

***REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED FOR THIS TOURNAMENT***

Here is the list of registered entries.

1) Ryan Tomczyk - Jason Niles - Trout Slayer
2) Ben VanDevender - Kenny Simmons - Dead Drift
3) Jim Hlavacek - Kelly Calvo - Trout Slayer
4) Jake Darling - Chuck Head - Stonefly
5) Bret Nelson - Mark Adams - Dead Drift
6) Gabriel Wittoch - Seth Sullivan - Dead Drift
7) Marc Thompson - Jason Galloway - Trout Slayer
8 ) Patrick Clark - Marius Sima - Trout Slayer
9) James Berzsenyi - Landon Williams - Trout Slayer
10) Scott Brown - Pat Brechbill - Dead Drift

I will update the waiting list as it comes in but here is who I have so far...
1) Joey Walraven - no teammate yet - Dead Drift
2) Jamie Sullivan - no teammate yet - Dead Drift
3) Tim Fisk - Hunter Hoffler - ?
4) Bob Lux - no teammate yet - Dead Drift


I've adjusted the auto-reply from the emails you are sending to notify of the registration being closed. If you still want to be on the waiting list please go ahead and send an email. I didn't get the auto-reply adjusted before some emails were sent and the registration was full.

That was fast. I will email you from the same email address with payment details for the competition. Thanks for your entry and we look forward to a first class event.

Marc Thompson
V.P. Team Trout Slayer

[Ryan Tomczyk]

am I in ?

[Marc Thompson]

am I in ?

I should take you out.

[Hunter Hoffler]

Hunter hoffler and tim fisk are team NC

[Dejon Hamann]

Marc and I have been chatting this morning and he has communicated the details and difficulties of staging this, their first competition.  It is my assessment that they have attempted to follow the spirit of TroutLegend's open registration process to the best of their abilities with a limited/exclusive venue and overwhelming interest.

Let's cut our newest team a little slack here and congratulate them on getting their first competition on the calendar!  I'm sure comp #2 will be even better.

[Marc Thompson]

Evidently there has been talk off of this board regarding the validity of this comp. This was an open registration competition that was posted based on the rules and regulations that were provided to me before and after submitting our application for the comp to be a sanctioned event. If you are upset about not getting in the competition then I'm sorry. I understand that Brigadoon is a high ticket item and getting the opportunity to fish trophy waters for such a great price makes the competition even more desirable. I'm sure if we were doing this competition at Cochran Shoals on the Chattahoochee we would not be catching the same slack (for lack of a better word).
If anyone has issues with me, Team Trout Slayer, or anyone on Team Trout Slayer then please contact me directly via PM and I will provide my email address and phone number so we can get things worked out. It is my goal as VP of Team Trout Slayer to represent this team in the best of my ability and to communicate with people the best I can so I am more than willing to discuss any and all issues or suggestions.
As a team, Team Trout Slayer has a goal of becoming the best thing to ever happen to fly fishing both in and out of the water. We are taking a professional approach to the competitive fly fishing world and want to do things in that manner. That doesn't mean we aren't a young team and in the learning process of how to do things but that we have high standards and goals for our team. One of the ways we decided to manage professionalism was to better our registration process by using email instead of a simple reply on a forum thread. This seems to have worked well for most people while for others they didn't like it. I haven't heard a complaint from anyone that registered in time though. For future reference we will not be doing tournaments this way but will be keeping our competitions private and only announcing the tournaments after TL board approval and by posting them here. We will also be posting an opening registration time and date.
There will always be someone who doesn't like the way something is done but we are all adults here. Let's try to communicate and treat each other as such.
I have been given suggestions and options for future competitions and will certainly take those into consideration. It isn't my or anyone on Team Trout Slayer's intention to upset anyone or to not include anyone in any event but as I'm sure you understand we have limitations for this location and event.

Thanks
Marc Thompson

[Mark Hanes]

Comp looks good to me!  It Is always great to see a new team up and running congrats on the first comp.

[Wes Neal]

Thanks guys for the good wishes!  We are very excited about our very first comp...we definitely have learned a lot, that we can do better for the next time.  Thanks!

Wes

[Ryan Tomczyk]

Thank you Marc and Dejon for all the time you spent working on this.  This was a difficult venue for us to get. A lot of time and effort went into getting the approval from Brigadoon.

Thanks Again!
Ryan

[Dejon Hamann]

Registration for this comp is full.  Please contact the event organizer as referenced above directly for further information or to be put on a waiting list.