When did Fantasy Fishing hit the big time?

CREATiVESPORTS-Marc · Post by **CREATiVESPORTS-Marc** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:51 am

I saw this today and my jaw dropped. Playing fantasy baseball for $100k first prize seems kind of small when you can play fantasy fishing (FantasyFishing.com). Time for Greg to get some sponsors and up the anty...

FLW Fantasy Fishing is offering anyone who plays the game the

opportunity to participate in being part of winning $7.3 million in cash

and prizes without going fishing and in the comfort of their own home.

Participants can play FLW Fantasy Fishing for free by logging onto

FantasyFishing.com to enter for their chance to land the catch of a

lifetime. There is $6.7 million in cash being offered to FLW's Fantasy

Fishing participants, plus an additional $600,000 in valuable prizes

including Ranger boats, a Chevy SUV, Yamaha and BRP ATV's and personal

watercrafts, and hundreds of thousands of dollars in Wal-Mart and Sam's

Club shopping gift cards, tens of thousands of dollars of BP free gasoline

gift cards plus a whole lot more -- all guaranteed to be awarded to the

winners of the FLW Fantasy Fishing game in 2008.

Fans can follow the action along with Hogan as the fantasy-fishing

season kicks off February 28, 2008 in conjunction with the Wal-Mart FLW

tournament on Lake Toho in Kissimmee, Fla., and culminates August 14-17,

2008 with the world's single largest and richest professional fishing

tournament the Forrest Wood Championship Cup in Columbia, S.C. Consisting

of seven events, FLW Fantasy Fishing mirrors the Wal-Mart FLW Tour schedule

in 2008 that includes six regular season tournaments and the Forrest Wood

Championship Cup tournament.

FLW Fantasy Fishing participants will play the game by earning points

based on their fantasy fishing team of ten anglers' placement finishes for

each one of the seven FLW tournaments throughout the Wal-Mart FLW Tour in

2008. Each one of the six regular season tournaments will award $100,000 to

the participant with the most points in each one of the six individual

tournaments plus an additional $100,000 will go to the participant with the

most points in the Forrest Wood Championship Cup. The $1 million cash grand

prize will be awarded to the individual who accumulates the most points

over all six regular season tournaments and the Forrest Wood Championship

Cup Tournament.

Tom Kessenich · Post by **Tom Kessenich** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:55 am

I think Greg and I got something in the mail about this recently. I recall someone telling me about fantasy fishing not long ago. If it's a sport of some kind, there's going to be a fantasy connection somehow.

Captain Hook · Post by **Captain Hook** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 10:57 am

Hey - there are a LOT of Big-mouthed Ass out there

Team Herron · Post by **Team Herron** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:01 am

What i dont get is the weekly award. HR4411, is pretty clear that to not be considered gambling it cant be based on the outcome of one event. $100k to the weekly winner sure smeels like gambling.....but you'd think Wal-Mart would have doe its diligence, so who knows.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:55 am

Originally posted by Team Herron:

What i dont get is the weekly award. HR4411, is pretty clear that to not be considered gambling it cant be based on the outcome of one event. $100k to the weekly winner sure smeels like gambling.....but you'd think Wal-Mart would have doe its diligence, so who knows. I don't think our lawyers would allow us to run this competition, how about you Jesse?

And by the way, where is this kind of sponsorship revenue for baseball and football?? Wish we could find some of this.

[ February 06, 2008, 04:56 PM: Message edited by: Greg Ambrosius ]