You buy a ticket based on the most common competition type you enter, be that open, club or big money match standard. Your tournament entrance fee then qualifies you to win prizes:

1. For the country’s overall best-ranking angler across the season.

2. For the country’s best-ranking angler by the match type category you selected (open, club or event)

As a bonus, if you rank the highest at the end of the season within the anglers of your organiser, you will be invited to a one-match final in March and fish for the organiser cup.

It’s £50 for the 13-week season (the equivalent of £3.84 per week), and the more that enter the bigger the top prizes, but we have guaranteed £1,000 for the overall country winner and £500 for each match type winner.

SCORING

1. Matches must have a minimum of 10 anglers to qualify for points.

2. Anglers must have weighed something to be eligible for points. A DNW does not get points.

3. Matches with 15+ Anglers get 10 points for the win, down to 1 point for the 10th position. Anglers also get an ‘additional’ 5% points bonus proportional to the number of competitors in their match to credit winning in a larger competition.

4. Matches with 10 – 14 Anglers get 8 points for the win, and custom top placements receive points:
– If 10 anglers are in the match, the top 4 receive points
– If 11 anglers are in the match, the top 5 receive points
– If 12 anglers are in the match, the top 6 receive points
– If 13 anglers are in the match, the top 7 receive points
– If 14 anglers’ are in the match, the top 8 receive points

5. The tournament will run for 13 weeks and use the best ten-match results from the angler’s competitions.

6. If an angler competes in several matches during one week, only the best match result will count and display in the results table.

7. The new rankings are calculated each Monday.

8. After the 13-week season is complete, if there is a tie on points, it will go down to how many first places each angler achieved, then second and so on.

MATCH ENTRANCE CRITERIA

9. Your organiser must score the match using the free Hot Fishin’ platform for your results to be eligible for points. They can create an account here. 

10. It is the job of the match organiser not Hot Fishin’, to upload match results to the platform after matches.

11. Although all anglers in matches scored on the Hot Fishin’ platform will appear in results tables as competitors, they require a claimed angler account to buy a ticket and appear as a paid contestant to win prizes.

SUBMITTING MATCH RESULTS

12. The deadline date for submitting match results is midnight, three weeks after the Sunday following the match. This is to give organisers time to record, publish, verify and finalise their match results.

13. Our system will automatically finalise any match that has not been finalised before the deadline and the match results will be assumed to be correct – although any errors in the results will still be the responsibility of that organiser.