THE BASS FEDERATION
LAKE HARTWELL RUNDOWN
Here ’ s how the schedule breaks down at the 2021 World Finals and National Championship :
During the first two days of competition , all competitors will fish on Lake Hartwell . The weights of the teams in the running for the National Championship are kept separately . At the end of Day 2 , the top two anglers from each state in the World Finals pool advance to the HSFWF Semi-Finals , while the remaining anglers head to the Second Chance round . The Top 10 anglers in the National Championship standings advance to the National Championship Semi-Finals on Day 3 . On Day 3 of competition , the World Finals pool battles for a spot in the Top 20 as their weights reset back to zero . The Top 20 move on to Saturday ’ s finals .
As for the High School National Championship , Day 3 is the final day of the event . The team with the highest three-day total weight wins the $ 10,000 scholarship . All 10 finalists from the National Championship advance to the World Finals Day 4 .
For the final day , all weights start back at zero . While there can only be one winner , there are still plenty of opportunities for each team to return home with a reward : More than $ 3 million in scholarships , electronics , prizes and fishing gear will be handed out at the conclusion of the event .
“ It really is a great event for the kids , and I ’ m looking forward to seeing it come together again this year ,” Cartlidge said . “ These kids work hard to get better at this sport , and it ’ s really great to see their joy when they succeed .”
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP SET FOR MISSISSIPPI RIVER BATTLE
It ’ s going to be toasty in Quad Cities , Illinois at the end of the July for the 2021 Junior World Championship , but the bite might be even hotter on the Mississippi River . The Junior World Championship will run from July 28 through July 30 . The two-person team event continues to grow each year , and in 2021 TBF is introducing a new format for its younger participants .
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“ We ’ re getting more kids involved this year by switching to a new format ,” Cartlidge explained . “ We ’ re taking the top 10 percent of the participants in each state this year instead of just two kids from each state . It ’ ll be a three-day event instead of the two-day event it ’ s been in the past , but the entire tournament — including practice and travel — should only take up one full week of the calendar , to make it easier on families to travel .”
TBF has active junior programs in almost every state across the country and Cartlidge encourages the more kids that sign up the better . In the past , only one team of two would advance to the JWC , but if there are 30 teams that sign up in a given state , the top three advance . Forty in a given state means the top four advance , and so on .
The participants fish out of their own boats with their own boat captains . The first two days of competition , the full field competes with their qualified teammate . The field is cut to the top team from each combined TBF division for Friday ’ s final championship round . The winning team of the JWC will receive $ 10,000 in college scholarships .
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