Yikes - I'm like you, I'm not sure what the benefit is other than having both groups fishing together. The tournament is actually a Water Valley tournament, they came to MCC asking us would we hold a tournament for them in conjunction with their festival. In return they would sponsor MCC. The tournament is an open tournament with no club membership required. MCC uses the tournament as one of our regular season events to encourage participation. MCC will not make a penny off of any team that fishes the tournament. Although crappie.com stands to increase their finals payout if teams sign up for both tournaments. I just don’t understand the need for the two separate tournaments running at once. I have no problem with trying to get both clubs to fish together. I just think there is a better way. I think when Ken asked crappie.com to join in he had good intentions and was trying to smooth over bad blood from a previous bad encounter. I would of preferred that both organizations agree to use the tournament as a regular season event. That way we would all weigh-in together and had one big tournament.