Kinda like the Classic being held the following year also? Man, the big tournament types got all the moves. They’re slick, I’ll yell ya.

Word going around there are at least 3 - 5 big former BASS names currently plying their craft for BPT who say they are not going to attend the classic in spite of their sponsors needs and wishes. They are being pouty faces and think they have more influence than they really do and by them not showing up for the classic in support of their sponsors will be making some sort of statement. Sadly, they are miscalculating as bad as MLF leadership did when they lured all those lemmings over to BPT and it’s going to backfire spectacularly. I am not sure who those anglers are listening to over there, but whomever it is, isn’t putting the best interest of the anglers first and those lemming still listening and carrying water for MLF are going to get burnt a second time over because they aren’t thinking for themselves. They won’t be coming back to BASS when that org goes down in flames... too much egg on face. Maybe they will be able to resurrect their careers and image in the upcoming NPFL tour.

From what I understand about what was said in the podcast is that the monies allocated for the Redcrest was moved to the heavy hitters tourny.

My thinking is that they only get so much money allocated to tourny payouts in which the reason to move the Redcrest to 2021 so they can possibly budget the money there or not have a heavy hitters next year. We shall see........

You get more insane every time you post

But that’s been the way all along hasn’t it, at least in recent history it has. But that didn’t answer the question I posed. Where did the money that was slated to go to the anglers who qualified for the 2020 Redcrest go? This will be the second such championship tournament purse that’s been absorbed into the MLF corporate till... how is that demonstrate it’s a league that’s better for the anglers and growing the sport if they keep running off with promised or implied purse monies? At some point even the slowest of anglers are going to catch on to what is happening... I think some already have tbh.

The money is going 1 of 2 places. Someone's pocket, or being used to keep the organization afloat.

If that is so then MLF had opportunity when they announced that knee jerk reaction tournament to clearly state the heavy hitters was going to be in leu of the Redcrest. Contrarily, the way heavy hitters was announced, it was implied this “was in addition to” the normally scheduled program. I can’t believe there aren’t some anglers over at MLF that aren’t smarter than that... some of them, at least some of them have to be seeing that MLF leadership is doing and how the type of skimming that’s is going on.

I think they are. Unfortunately, not all of them have the $50k to buy themselves out of a poor situation. Wait until that fee gets cut in half, or they full-fill their 3 year obligation and let's see where they are at.

Big O, math's hard isn't it?

The Redcrest is being held in 2021. The payout for the last Redcrest was $739,000.

In place of Redcrest in 2020, the BPT added the "Heavy Hitters Tournament" for a total of nine, rather than 8 events. The purse for that ADDITIONAL tournament is $745,000.

Looks to me like the money is all still there, regardless of what the tournament's called.

Actually, BPT increased the 2020 payouts by $6,000

Wrong. 2005 Classic was in July in Pittsburg and won by KVD and then was moved to the first event in 2006 and won by Luke Clauson in February in FLA. They didn't skip one

If that’s the case, perhaps the communications director(s) at MLF should be replaced.

Go back and look at the press release about the heavy hitters tournament. Something I call the knee jerk reaction addition. It was clearly stated in that announcement that was “in addition to” the regularly scheduled program, making it now 9. Furthermore, if It was the understanding by the anglers that was going to supersede the Redcrest, then I am pretty sure those who have a significant social media presence that has talked and promoted the heavy hitters addition would have said something, but no, they haven’t. It also seems one of the angler/owners is confused on the deal, as he didn’t mention heavy hitters being in leu of Redcrest when he made statement there was no championship tournament to fish and qualify for.

How is it one of the co-owners of the organization is so far out of the loop? Are they actually in the loop like it was implied they would be, or was that an illusion that was sold to them as a bill of goods?

The MLF defenders are going to go into full defensive mode to try and make everyone not look at the fact that MLF has for a second time now skimmed championship tournament money purses away from the anglers.

Man, I hope they dont try to pull some b.s. with scheduling to try and foul up the classic.

Which championship purchases have they "skimmed"? If you're talking about purses that went away with the purchase of FLW by BPT. That's how business works, sometime. My company bought another company many years ago. My company has a max of five weeks vacation. The company we bought had a max of 6 weeks vacation. Guess what happened to that sixth week of vacation when we bought the other company. Poof! Gone.

Companies buy other companies all the time and don't carry on business the same way the company that got bought did. It's just a fact of business life. If you don't like it, start your own fishing league.

Let me make this a little easier for you. Original 2020 BPT schedule. 8 events plus Redcrest which paid out $739,000 for a total of 9 events.

New 2020 BPT schedule. 8 events plus Heavy Hitters which pays out $745,000 for a total of 9 events.

Again, BPT added $6,000 in 2020 prize money.

Please explain to me how BPT ran off with tournament purse money when they've increased the payout for 2020?

Why are you referring to yourself in 3rd person?