Free Crappie Masters Tournament Entry

Paul Alpers and Slab are working together to offer us an opportunity to fish the CM Tournament at Grenada, Apr 5th and 6th. This offer for the free Crappie Masters Entry is for newbies only. The idea is to promote the Crappie Masters to attract new participants. So just like signing up for new phone service or cable service, this offer only applies to new customers "so to speak".

Even though it excludes those who have fished in a Crappie Masters Tourmanent before, it's a great opportunity for those that have not.

We will sell raffel tickets at each of the regular C.C FJ Tournaments preceeding the CM event (Jan 19th at Chotard, Feb 23rd at Washington, and Mar 16th at Sardis). Tickets are $10.00 each and you may purchase one ticket for each FJ fished, that includes the 2012 and 2013 seasons. All proceeds will go to helping the FJ Series pay for permits and fees. The drawing for the free entry will be after the weigh-in at the Sardis FJ, Mar 16.

Many thanks to Paul and Ed for setting this up.[/QUOTE]

Question. As I read that, it first sounded like any person who has never fished a Cm tourney will get to fish it for free. Then later on you talk about raffle tickets and a drawing for free entry fee. You know I get confused easily so could ya explain abit more? Is it free or are we having a raffle to help pay for a drawn name?

Going to sell raffle tickets for $10.00 each and draw the winner at the Sardis FJ.

still confused. Is the entry fee for folks that have never fished a CM tourney free or are we drawing for the entry fee to be paid? Sorry, just don;t understand

I guess you can say it's kinda free. You have to pay for the raffle ticket. But the funds generated for the raffle tickets will remain with the C.C FJ Tournament to help with your expenses. The CM entry is free to your club, but the club will charge $10 a raffle ticket to help generate funds for the club. Make sense?

And don't forget, you can only buy one raffle ticket for each fruit jar fished. If you fished 4 of them, you can only buy up to 4 tickets.

But also realize that you can't have already fished a CM. The idea is to introduce newbies to the CM. So it's likely there won't be all that many raffle tickets sold.

So if you buy a raffle ticket, you automatically get free entry into the CM tourney if you've never entered one before? I recon you just keep the stub and turn it into the CM bunch when you register? Just trying to make sure I got all the details. I've never fished one of their tourneys and MAY fish this one.

You go in a drawing, hense a raffle.

Rees got it.

There's a raffle drawing and the winner gets the free entry. Like I said, there might not be that many raffle tickets sold so you'll definitely have a good chance to win. All the proceeds from selling the raffle tickets goes to the Fruit Jars. And a newbie gets a taste of the Crappie Masters. It's win/win situation.

Using raffle tickets was the only way we figured we could randomly select a winner for the free entry. And selling them got the club a little extra money.

One more point. This is a Crappie.com sponsored prize, so raffle ticket purchases are limited to Crappie.com members.

FYI, Jared (Jigging15) just did this in MO, and it worked out great. He says roughly 5 teams entered the raffle entering 18 raffle tickets and one of those 5 teams won (obviously). Other teams did not enter because they had participated in a CM before. So it worked out exactly like planned. A CM newbie gets to check out a CM tournament for the price of a raffle ticket, and the club got a little monetary support to help run the club events next year.

Jared has a nice summary of the year posted, I promoted it to an article on the home page. He;s going to post about the CM winner shortly.

Got ya Bossman. I had it in my head that anyone from here that had never fished them could fish for free. To many fumes form staining my hardwood floors last night. Recon I lost more brain cells than I could handle LOL

Here's the post about the MO winner Jared put up earlier today:
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/mo-to...ml#post2067563

I'm in for sure--heck of a deal-unless I don't win the raffle:)

Lol. If you win how would you choose your partner for the cm

I hope this goes over well over here for you guys. Mike our winner was pretty excited. He bought two tickets "$20" and won the entry worth $325 to the One Pole Ultimate challenge. Great way for someone who has been thinking about fishing a Crappie Masters event a cheap way way to get in. If their name is drawn. I believe if you win you could use your normal partner, fish alone or choose any other partner that has not fished with Crappie Masters before.

Sure Nessa would be my partner but if she don;t wanna fish it I can track someone down

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Originally Posted by South65

Lol. If you win how would you choose your partner for the cm

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That would be hard--maybe do a raffle:)

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Originally Posted by KDAVID1

That would be hard--maybe do a raffle:)

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Or a poll.. Those really work well on this board

So they must also have never fished a cm also?


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Originally Posted by South65

Lol. If you win how would you choose your partner for the cm

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either fish it by yourself or get somebody that has never fished CM

Ok I got a question. Will we be able to purchase tickets for one of our tournaments if we dont or can't fish that particular tournament? I like the idea of having that extra money for fees and such.

Sure cray.....just show up for the weigh in and buy a couple of raffle tickets....or you could get somebody to buy them for you. Heres what the major says.........." We will sell raffel tickets at each of the regular C.C FJ Tournaments preceeding the CM event (Jan 19th at Chotard, Feb 23rd at Washington, and Mar 16th at Sardis). Tickets are $10.00 each and you may purchase one ticket for each FJ fished, that includes the 2012 and 2013 seasons. All proceeds will go to helping the FJ Series pay for permits and fees. The drawing for the free entry will be after the weigh-in at the Sardis FJ, Mar 16."

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Sure cray.....just show up for the weigh in and buy a couple of raffle tickets....or you could get somebody to buy them for you. Heres what the major says.........." We will sell raffel tickets at each of the regular C.C FJ Tournaments preceeding the CM event (Jan 19th at Chotard, Feb 23rd at Washington, and Mar 16th at Sardis). Tickets are $10.00 each and you may purchase one ticket for each FJ fished, that includes the 2012 and 2013 seasons. All proceeds will go to helping the FJ Series pay for permits and fees. The drawing for the free entry will be after the weigh-in at the Sardis FJ, Mar 16."

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So even if youi dont fish this year you can buy a raffle ticket for each one you fished last year??:dono

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Originally Posted by "G"

Sure cray.....just show up for the weigh in and buy a couple of raffle tickets....or you could get somebody to buy them for you. Heres what the major says.........." We will sell raffel tickets at each of the regular C.C FJ Tournaments preceeding the CM event (Jan 19th at Chotard, Feb 23rd at Washington, and Mar 16th at Sardis). Tickets are $10.00 each and you may purchase one ticket for each FJ fished, that includes the 2012 and 2013 seasons. All proceeds will go to helping the FJ Series pay for permits and fees. The drawing for the free entry will be after the weigh-in at the Sardis FJ, Mar 16."

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Thanks G

It says "Tickets are $10.00 each and you may purchase one ticket for each FJ fished, that includes the 2012 and 2013 seasons."

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So even if youi dont fish this year you can buy a raffle ticket for each one you fished last year??:dono

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Yes.

So even if youi dont fish this year you can buy a raffle ticket for each one you fished last year??:dono
Yes or no?? Just answer the question, pretty simple.

Rees....he answered yes.....now buy some tickets dadgummit:biggrin and good luck to ya

Thanks, guess I will take 2 when the time comes unless the Champioship counts, in that case I'll take 3. Thanks guys.

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Thanks, guess I will take 2 when the time comes unless the Champioship counts, in that case I'll take 3. Thanks guys.

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atta boy:ThumbsUp

Don't want to forget this either. I'll have tickets at the Washington FJ.