"Cup Events" are the original MLF format that you see on TV. It's not BPT.

SMDH the tour and cups are both MLF format. Anybody see them on Belton today?

I think you're shaking your head too fast. Let me try to help. Here's the BPT format:

Day 1: Qualifying Round, Group A

Forty anglers compete and advance
Total weight carries to Qualifying Round Day 3
Day 2: Qualifying Round, Group B

Forty anglers compete and advance
Total weight carries to Qualifying Round Day 4
Day 3: Qualifying Round, Group A

Forty anglers compete
Day 1 + Day 3 = total weight
Anglers who finish in 2nd-20th place advance to Knockout Round (Day 5)
Winner advances straight to Championship Round (Day 6)
Bottom 20 anglers are eliminated
Day 4: Qualifying Round, Group B

Forty anglers compete
Day 2 + Day 4 = total weight
Anglers who finish in 2nd– 20th place advance to Knockout Round (Day 5)
Winner advances to Championship Round (Day 6)
Bottom 20 anglers are eliminated
Day 5: Knockout Round

Thirty-eight anglers compete
Zero weight to start
Top 8 anglers advance to Championship Round
Bottom 30 anglers are eliminated
Day 6: Championship Round

Ten anglers compete
Zero weight to start
Highest total weight wins


Here' are the MLF Cups which keep the format of the original show, completely different from the Live BPT event format. Four MLF Cup events will be shot in the dark and produced for television. Each MLF Cup event will result in six, two-hour television shows that will air on the Outdoor Channel. Thirty anglers will compete in each MLF Cup event, based on the points they accumulate during MLF Bass Pro Tour events.

Challenge Cup
Heritage Cup
Patriot Cup
Summit Cup

Days 1-3 = Elimination Round 1-3
10 different anglers will compete each day to catch the highest weight
The Top 6 anglers with the highest weight daily move on to Sudden Death

Day 4-5 = Sudden Death Round 1 & 2
Anglers race to a pre-determined Target Weight
The first 4 anglers to hit the target weight daily move on to the Championship Round

Day 6 = Championship Round
Eight anglers compete to catch the highest weight
At the end of the day, the angler with the most weight wins the Cup event
The Top 3 anglers in each MLF Cup event earn a spot in the General Tire World Championship



If it's still confusing after this consult the MLF website or contact Big O for a more detailed explanation.

Yes.... They were on Belton again today.

MLF format is catch weigh release all fish count biggest weight wins, its all the same to me whether bass pro tour or summit/challenge cup

Any sightings today?

I saw no one on Waco this morning.

They’re both the same format, but they are not the same thing. As mentioned, BPT is streamed live online, then packaged for TV and shown on TV at a later date. BPT is the top-level competitive circuit, that follows the style of the original MLF as far as every fish counts. The MLF Cup Events are essentially qualifiers for the General Tire World Championship. Cup events are the original MLF; BPT is the top tier circuit and runs a little differently, while still having every fish count (as long as it weighs at least 2 pounds).

https://majorleaguefishing.com/mlf-101/

The link above says for BPT:

After the Bass Pro Tour streams live on MajorLeagueFishing.com, it will be produced for television and result in 13, two-hour episodes that will air on the Discovery Channel.

The link above says for MLF Cup Events:

MLF Cup events will be shot in the dark and produced for television. MLF Cup events follow the original MLF format.

Group 3 should be on Belton today, tomorrow and thursday they should be on a different lake, and then another friday my guess is waco whitney or waco aquilla. On the World Championship they axed that this year with the covid shortened season, Redcrest is the sole big championship event for them now

MLF is a bit of everything. On some tours they get practice, on some they don’t. Some they are in one boat that you recognize, some they are in provided boats and you have no clue. Some they openly promote fish care by catch/weigh/release, some are five fish that they allow puncture cull clips and cullling of dead fish. Some they stream live, some they package for later. Some are called Cups, some are qualifiers, some are super tournaments, and some are regular season. Some have one set of anglers, some have another set.
And they are all MLF. It’s simple, just go to their website and look at the info. It’s conveniently located now since they moved it from some of the information in one place and some of the info in another.

Make sure you check it often because very little stays the same for long with MLF.

Sometimes they can bounce a fish around on the carpet, toss a fish back in the lake, and hug a fish with no repercussions. But that's only when there isn't some guy in a doofus referees shirt in the boat.

They were on Belton 10/6.



I'll be out there on 10/7 and post update.

That cedar ridge ramp? Anyone see them on waco today?

Saw one of the MLF trucks at Cabelas there around noon.

Yep Cedar Ridge. Didn't see any of them out their today 10/7.

They must be staying in downtown Waco. I saw a bunch of them there, along with the GoPro and Power Pole trailers.

Their hub is as the convention center, theres lost of posts on facebook of people doing meet and greets. They were told the lakes wiil be within 45 minutes so they either fished stillhouse, waco, brazos, whitney, aquilla, navarro mills or mexia yesterday and today