In 2008 we will offer two ‘winner take all’ pools of money for
teams to opt into if they choose (ENTIRELY OPTIONAL). There will be a
$100 pool and a $250.00 pool available. Each team may enter either pool
OR both pools if they choose, but a team can only enter a pool once. All
of the money that is put into these pools by teams registered in the
tournament will be awarded to the team who entered the pool and lands
the HEAVIEST SHARK OVERALL among the teams that entered that pool. (the
tournament does NOT take any money from these pools of money*.it all
goes to the winner of the pool!). Therefore, even though the overall
tournament winner will again be determined by a point system in 2008,
the pool winner will be based on a SINGLE SHARK WEIGHT ALONE. The rule
of a minimum 9.0 foot fork length for blue sharks applies to the betting
pools as well as to the general tournament (i.e., no blue sharks with a
fork length of less than 9.0 feet can be weighed in for the pool money).
In theory, a team could win both the overall tournament AND one, or
both, of the ‘winner take all’ pools, if they were registered in the
pool(s) and a shark that they weighed in over the two days that helped
them win the tournament was also the heaviest shark overall weighed in
the ‘winner take all’ pool(s) during the tournament!

In the unlikely event that nobody wins either of the ‘winner take
all’ pools (because none of the teams in the pools weighs in a single
eligible shark), all of the team’s entry fee will be refunded at the
end of the tournament.

We will have an individual available at the Captain’s dinner on 8/21
to enroll teams into these pools, if they wish to enter. The pools will
be a ‘cash only’ event, so be sure to bring cash for this if your
team decides ahead of time that they want to enter one or both of these
pools of money.