This a single poler normal response and not knocking you but in these tournaments, especially in lakes that only have white crappie, a jig pole just won't get it. They also have had one pole tournaments but these tourneys only bring low numbers of entries. It's about money, plain and simple. A town or an area sponsors the tournament and they want as many people to enter as they can get, hence a large number of people falling in love with their area and returning time and time again. I personally fish places that I would never have fished if not being introduced to that area by Crappie Masters. Bait shops, hotels and resturants survive by selling their wares, plain and simple. I have caught them so many ways and mostly because of fishing the bigger tournaments, you have to adapt and conquer. They set the dates 9 or 10 months in advance, who knew it would be snowing the second day of the Crappie Masters at Grenada in 2016? Mike Valentine surely didn't, I am a better fisherman because of the bigger tourneys, just a fact and our sport is growing because of them too. This in turn will bring more management to our resources which in some cases is really needed across the country.