BPT Obsession with "Records"

[RichF]

Seriously, is anyone else irritated by the commentators obsession with anglers "breaking records" in these events??  The BPT has been around for 5 dang events and all you hear is "so and so just broke the record for most fish caught in a knockout round, blah, blah."  Like, these "records" have been around for what...3 months??  

[Team9nine]

“Show me your two best bass!”

 

””A 5 bass limit!”

 

”Boom shak-a-lak-a. G-G-G-Giant bass!”

 

Oh wait, wrong trails. I’ll put up with record talk for a while longer just so I don’t have to listen to any of the above again, anytime soon ?

[Tim Kelly]

I agree, especially weight records. Irrelevant weights that are going to be scrubbed the next day. I really don't get it. I've tried very hard to enjoy the BPT, but I just find it irritating. You can't follow an angler through the event and get a feeling for how he's doing as the weights are constantly getting scrubbed and starting again. They might as well just have a one day tournament for all 80 anglers and have done with it. It's a shame as I really enjoy the MLF tournaments, it just doesn't seem to work for me as a tour event.

[Way north bass guy]

37 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

“Show me your two best bass!”

 

””A 5 bass limit!”

 

”Boom shak-a-lak-a. G-G-G-Giant bass!”

 

Oh wait, wrong trails. I’ll put up with record talk for a while longer just so I don’t have to listen to any of the above again, anytime soon ?

That’s why I never, ever watch weigh- ins. So annoying and repetitive. 

[scaleface]

56 minutes ago, Team9nine said:

”Boom shak-a-lak-a. G-G-G-Giant bass!”

I cringed just reading it . 

[flatcreek]

3 hours ago, Team9nine said:

“Show me your two best bass!”

 

””A 5 bass limit!”

 

”Boom shak-a-lak-a. G-G-G-Giant bass!”

 

Oh wait, wrong trails. I’ll put up with record talk for a while longer just so I don’t have to listen to any of the above again, anytime soon ?

I prefer the Sheli Sanders report

3 hours ago, Way north bass guy said:

That’s why I never, ever watch weigh- ins. So annoying and repetitive. 

Yeah man, that train has left the station..

[Jim- Indiana]

On 5/21/2019 at 10:49 AM, RichF said:

Seriously, is anyone else irritated by the commentators obsession with anglers "breaking records" in these events??  The BPT has been around for 5 dang events and all you hear is "so and so just broke the record for most fish caught in a knockout round, blah, blah."  Like, these "records" have been around for what...3 months??  

It surely annoys me, but thought it may be just me! .... IMO .... they are making a mockery of the "Century Club" ! Know that  their spokes people are supposed to promote their product, but a bigger part, is to not annoy the audience! Marty could use a tune up, in that department!

 

[Troy85]

On 5/21/2019 at 11:17 AM, Way north bass guy said:

That’s why I never, ever watch weigh- ins. So annoying and repetitive. 

I really enjoy watching Elite Live events, but I almost never watch the weigh-in.  Every now and then if I'm really bored I'll watch them weigh-in on the last day of the event, but even that is rare.  Glad to see I'm not the only one who gets bored watching the weigh-in, I thought maybe I wasn't a true bass fan. LOL 

[OCdockskipper]

I'm the opposite of some of you, I enjoy Dave Mercer.  I find he deals with 70 - 100 anglers coming across stage better than any other MC I have heard since Ray Scott.  He is miles ahead of the Scarecrow in Skinny Jeans who does the post game show for BPT, that dude has not learned the cadence of when to raise your voice for excitement and when not to.  He sounds like a 4 year old on a sugar high.

 

For BPT, there are hits & misses for me.  For the coverage, the team is not bad overall.  The straight man has a voice that you can put up with for hours on end, JT Kenney is funny in a realistic, down home way.  Covering fishing is very different than other sports, there is so much dead time.  The closest analogy would be golf.

 

Where I see BPT missing it is in the event format & acting fake.  If you are going to fish the same lake for multiple days, why drop weights?  What sense does it make for 40 people to fish Table Rock on Day 3, then only 10 fish it on Day 4 starting from scratch?  They are setting themselves up for situations where Angler A catches 80 lbs on days 3 & and 80 again on Day 4, but comes in second to Angler B who catches 50 lbs on day 3 and 81 lbs on day 4.  Dropping weights only makes sense if you are changing bodies of water.  I would highly suggest the first 2 days (4 overall) of fishing happen on a large lake (like Table rock), Day 3 happen on a nearby medium sized body of water and day 4 on a smaller body of water.  That would justify dropping the weights and also not give any angler a reason to do anything other than catch as many fish as possible every day.

 

As far as acting fake, I'm talking about the "news conference" at the end of events or the award ceremony.  There is no press there and there is nearly no crowd there either, quit acting like there is.  I understand the slogan "Fake it til you make it", but they are taking it to ridiculous heights.  BASS anglers get excited and emotional on stage because of the interaction and reaction of the crowd that is there for the weigh-in.  If BPT can't draw folks to watch a post game show, don't pretend like they have.  Make it a sit down interview in a room instead of having these anglers try out their acting skills in front of a non-existent crowd. 

[stepup]

I think I am in the minority but I like the idea of MLF but I guess I am traditional and I like to see a sack taken in and weighed. I like to see a traditional derby with friday cut lines and saturday cut lines. I like to see the guys who can bring a 20lb bag to the scale 4 days in a row. I like the idea of MLF format and I think it maybe better for television coverage but I still haven't saw where it is way ahead or way behind the other 2 tours. What I would like to see is Fishing get the same style of coverage golf gets and actually have live coverage for the final 2 days. I think you could create enough excitement and actually have a good shot at getting a following. I understand you can't have a full 8 hours of live coverage but even if you could get it to where at say 7:00 on Monday we could watch the tournament from this past weekend. This waiting  3 months to watch the tournament kind of stinks.