Fish Finder Contest

The Fish Finder Contest
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The Fish Finder Contest, is 5 weekends of fishing in 5 different towns.
This contest will take place in one town per week. This contest will last for 5 weekends. This Contest will change towns each Saturday. This contest will push you to the limits!
Fish Finder Champions
Flair Minamoto - 31 Points
Taikee Vetrae - 29 Points
Bee Striker - 29 Points
Engel - 27 Points
Serenia Mellorian - 23 Points

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18GQcQyP-RGQYp3mp9ScotxCq4Rs0RCCT70Xn7imemjE/edit?usp=sharing
Crossroads - Town 1 -
Date : April 11, 2020
Start Time : Noon Central
Duration : 8 Hours
Water Type : Fresh
Prize : First Place - 150,000 Gold - Taikee Vetrae
Second Place - 100,000 Gold - Phamyns
Third Place - 75,000 Gold - Vectorgammar Marsdon
Forth Place - 50,000 Gold - Serenia Mallorian
Fifth Place - 25,000 Gold - Skathi Widsdohter
Rules : Each contestant will turn in one fish, the largest fish they can catch during that time.
At the end of the 8 hours, 5 winners will be awarded based off of the size of the fish they chose to submit. Once a fish is submitted the contestant is done for that day. Each contestant must have their 1 fish to me ( @Phamyns in game) via trade window or in game mail by noon central Monday morning.

Solace Bridge Outskirts - Town 2 -
Date : April 18, 2020
Start Time : Noon Central
Duration : 8 Hours
Water Type : Fresh / Salt
Prize : First Place - 150,000 Gold - Bee Striker
Second Place - 100,000 Gold - Engel
Third Place - 75,000 Gold - Mizzgoofy Bestwoman
Forth Place - 50,000 Gold - Flair Minamoto
Fifth Place - 25,000 Gold - Taikee Vetrae
Rules : Each contestant will turn in one fish, the largest fish they can catch during that time.
At the end of the 8 hours, 5 winners will be awarded based off of the size of the fish they chose to submit. Once a fish is submitted the contestant is done for that day. Each contestant must have their 1 fish to me ( @Phamyns in game) via trade window or in game mail by noon central Monday morning.

Crossroads Alleys - Town 3 -
Date : April 25, 2020
Start Time : Noon Central
Duration : 8 Hours
Water Type : Salt
Prize : First Place - 150,000 Gold - Flair Minamoto
Second Place - 100,000 Gold - Serenia Mellorian
Third Place - 75,000 Gold - Skathi Widsdohter
Forth Place - 50,000 Gold - Engel
Fifth Place - 25,000 Gold - Irishize
Special Notice : @Strider99 Set a new Bluefin Tuna Record!!
@Flair Set a new Marlin Record!!
Rules : Each contestant will turn in one fish, the largest fish they can catch during that time.
At the end of the 8 hours, 5 winners will be awarded based off of the size of the fish they chose to submit. Once a fish is submitted the contestant is done for that day. Each contestant must have their 1 fish to me ( @Phamyns in game) via trade window or in game mail by noon central Monday morning.

Justice Hold - Town 4 -
Date : May 02, 2020
Start Time : Noon Central
Duration : 8 Hours
Water Type : Salt
Prize : First Place - 150,000 Gold - Flair Minamoto
Second Place - 100,000 Gold - Drachnyen Nurunodo
Third Place - 75,000 Gold - Denny Crane
Forth Place - 50,000 Gold - Bee Striker
Fifth Place - 25,000 Gold - Irishize
Rules : Each contestant will turn in one fish, the largest fish they can catch during that time.
At the end of the 8 hours, 5 winners will be awarded based off of the size of the fish they chose to submit. Once a fish is submitted the contestant is done for that day. Each contestant must have their 1 fish to me ( @Phamyns in game) via trade window or in game mail by noon central Monday morning.

Crossroads Estates - Town 5 -
Date : May 9, 2020
Start Time : Noon Central
Duration : 8 Hours
Water Type : Fetid
Prize : First Place - 150,000 Gold - Drachnyen Nuruodo
Second Place - 100,000 Gold - Taikee Vetrae
Third Place - 75,000 Gold - Bee Striker
Forth Place - 50,000 Gold - Engel
Fifth Place - 25,000 Gold - Erich Ruhl
Rules : Each contestant will turn in one fish, the largest fish they can catch during that time.
At the end of the 8 hours, 5 winners will be awarded based off of the size of the fish they chose to submit. Once a fish is submitted the contestant is done for that day. Each contestant must have their 1 fish to me ( @Phamyns in game) via trade window or in game mail by noon central Monday morning.

Each contestant will be awarded points based on their placement during each week. At the end of the 5 weeks an additional 200,000 Gold will be awarded to the contestant with the most over all points.
If you require further information, please ask below, in game, or with DM to @Phamyns

 

I don't know about anyone else, but I'll be there. I was lucky I checked the date, because I thought the 11th was Sunday not Saturday

 

@Phamyns Can you add a subsequent post to this thread and perhaps the Discord #events channel just prior to each new round as I just happened to notice the Solace Bridge contest in the looking for group as it was ending?

 

Sorry I missed today's event. I was busy giving my computer a tune up. It's GPU fan had started making a little noise, so I gave it a nice cleaning.

 

Hope the event's been going well. I'll get it updated again for this week's update -- happy fishing!

 

A plea to all those that fish during these tourneys, please display your fish caught on the leaderboards!

Gives all those who fish a target to beat everyday!

 

Hello a big thank you to Shawn and Phamyns for this incredible contest
one day a week was perfect and the prizes so generous

I enjoyed every Saturday !

 

Grats to the winners! And yes -- thank you Phamyns and friends for running this series of events!

 

Hi there

What im wondering is why the fish finders cloak was not announced ?
Why was it a secret participation prize that all the fishing community "veterans" probably all knew about .....
The worst part is i participated for several hours, 2 out of the 5 weeks.... but after finding out that i had zero chance i decided to not submit my random useless fish (mostly amberjacks and mahi mahi ).....
IF i knew that there was a pariticipation prize ( maybe advertised somewhere HERE ) i would of absolutely entered my fish no matter what ....
Just like i do in the catnip weekly fishing contest. I submit my entries to receive the cute little spinning trophy....
of course i would of entered these fish to receive a + 12.5 BAIT RECOVERY cloak to wear while i fish ...
I think this is unfair, especially since there is no other way whatsoever for me to get this cloak..... and it sucks because i do enjoy fishing very much but now its like i feel like im on the outside of this inner fishing circle where only the elite are aware of stuff like this ....

I dont know how this can happen. This is NOT a consolation prize..... a cute little trophy/thanks for participating in the phamyns contest , this is a fishing game changer, its an item that helps you out while fishing .... I find it extremely suspicious that this cloak comes out right before they remove the allowance of wearing two pax rings....






@Elgarion @Phamyns @Phamyn @Chris

 

Sorry, I'm unaware of any fishing cloaks for this contest, but @Phamyns will have more knowledge on this since this was a player event. Perhaps their just new copies of his old streaming cloaks back when we did offer unique enhanced ones. Maybe if you sent in fish late which were caught during the timeframe of the contest, he could hook you up, but that's up to him since it was his contest. Also, these cloaks have nothing to do with the Pax rings changes.

No conspiracies here as far as I can tell in any regard.

 

I had no idea, it was a nice surprise to find the cloak in my mail box, thanks @Phamyns!

 

To my knowledge, no one except Phamyns and Atos knew about the cloaks. The rest of us just participated because we enjoy fishing and being social in the game.

 

i won the contest and i had no idea there was a cloak until the contest was over.... and if it was such an advantage why am i not winning the catnip contest every week. If you fished enough you would know that your bait really doesn't add much advantage at all and most of fishing is luck and rng if anything. We have had folks catch bigger and better fish using nothing more then minnows and having less then gm skill. So having the ability to not burn your bait doesn't really give you any advantage at all or all of the folks who have been fishing the contest from the beginning who were not using bait would be winning every time and that is just not the case. For the record most of us fishermen didn't need the fish finder cloak nor the second pax ring to not use bait as we all had bait recovery skill, a legendary pax ring, and the buff.

 

Wow. You know, I don't think Phamyn's had any ill will here. But yet you guys want to tear him apart. Folks who run these events put in a lot of time and effort and aren't out to screw anyone. I think you will find that the fish finder cloak won't make that much difference, because the efficacy of rare bait itself is questionable. It's not a conspiracy and I wouldn't blame Phamyns for never running another event again if this is how folks are going to react.