Are you an avid follower of the Wal-Mart FLW Tour? Do you enjoy playing fantasy sports? Have you ever dreamed of winning $5,000 just for playing a simple game? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you should consider signing up for the FLW Outdoors Fantasy Fishing Challenge. This fantasy-fishing game has become a staple of the FLWOutdoors.com experience, and widespread participation has brought the contest back for another run in 2006.
Beginning immediately at FLWOutdoors.com, visitors will be able to sign up for the FLW Outdoors Fantasy Fishing Challenge – a compelling interactive contest where fantasy-fishing skill could net you a handsome payday. However, you’ll need to hurry, because registration for the first challenge of the season – in conjunction with the FLW Tour season opener on Lake Okeechobee – will end Tuesday, Jan. 17, at 11:59 p.m. Eastern time.
It’s so easy
If you’re a past player, FLW Outdoors welcomes you back for another year of fan-based punditry. If you’re uninitiated in the Fishing Challenge, getting set up and playing is easy. Here’s how it works:
• Registering online for the FLW Outdoors Fishing Challenge; it’s a quick process.
• Then simply click on the names of the pros from the Angler Roster who you think will place the highest in the next scheduled FLW Tour event. That group of five becomes your “Pro Team” for the next contest. If you want some great tips for coming up with hot picks, visit the Fishing Challenge Tool Box, a virtual treasure chest of prognosticating pointers.
• If your Pro Team earns the highest score among all Fishing Challenge contestants, you’ll win a cool $5,000.
• Players can register for a chance to win the top award of $5,000 or many other great prizes at each of the FLW Tour’s seven events in 2006, so be sure to set up your Pro Team for each event.
For every fantasy FLW Tour event – Lake Okeechobee, Lake Murray, Pickwick Lake, Beaver Lake, Kentucky Lake, Lake Champlain and the 2006 FLW Tour Championship at Logan Martin Lake – the top point scorer will win a guaranteed $5,000 in cash. While outpredicting every other Fishing Challenge player is never an easy task, it’s not the only way to win great prizes. In fact, the FLW Outdoors Fantasy Fishing Challenge offers 25 guaranteed prizes for the top-ranked participants in each contest. Contestants who finish in second through 25th place will receive valuable prizes including miniature die-cast boat replicas of official FLW Tour sponsor boats, FLW Outdoors hats and t-shirts, as well as free memberships to FLW Outdoors.
The game
After the conclusion of every event, contestants will receive point totals for each of their five selected anglers based on their real-life performances at the actual tournament. For example, if one of your five anglers won the FLW Tour event, you would be awarded 200 points for his or her performance – the same amount of points that angler will earn toward the 2006 FLW Tour standings. If one of your fantasy anglers finished in the runner-up position, you would receive 199 points. A third-place finish by one of your Pro Team members would be worth 198 points, and so on.
If you don’t win the first time, you still have six more chances to win great cash and prizes in conjunction with the remaining FLW Tour events. So don’t delay. Sign up now and test your fantasy-fishing savvy.
Remember, registration for the next FLW Outdoors Fantasy Fishing event on Lake Okeechobee in Clewiston, Fla., ends Jan. 17 just before midnight.
Related links:
How to play (including Tool Box tips)
Official rules
Prizes