Yes you are correct with your last statement……

After registering and qualifying to fish the “Semi” final, Anglers then had to phone Angling Times stating that they be able to fish it, failure to contact Angling Times ment that you did not intend to fish the semi and your place would have been given to another!!

Instructions on the above were printed in the Angling Times and on their web site!

thats not quite right i quallified and had a phone call from angling times if i was going or not so you should of had a phone messasge as well?????
if not take it up with a/t see there response

Hi all

For the 2010/2011 county champs all anglers had to register online. If they did not have the internet they could call the office to register over the phone.

Up until July time all names were printed in the tables (unregistered and registered). Then in the final tables (top 20 for each county) unregistered anglers were removed. In the paper we then asked anglers to contact us telling us whether they would fish their qualifier or not. I then called anglers who hadn’t contacted us that were in the top 20 to ask if they were fishing their qualifier or not.

I’m sorry you got turned away, there must have been a problem with your regstration as even if you were on the top 20 list and hadn’t told us you were going to fish and we couldn’t get hold of you, you would still be able to fish. I presume we never got your registration details which would expalin why your weren’t in the published top 20 and didn’t receive a phone call.

Abi – Angling Times

Next year we are working on a better registration process (making it more well known to anglers as some were not aware they had to register and perhaps send confirmation emails out for registration)

it seems u dont need to register just moan alot

Well in the southwest an angler forgot to register
But was allowed to fish the final and qualified
So what’s the point in registering

Waste of time registering did it twice no joy then I emailed them no response, they need to get there act together.

Did you try ringing? Always found it much better contacting them directly.

@Simon P wrote:

… failure to contact Angling Times ment that you did not intend to fish the semi and your place would have been given to another!!

After looking at the results in the paper last week I was wondering if AT did contact anyone outside the top 20? The attendances were very poor on a lot of the qualifiers.

It seems that the interest in this completion is very low. Could it be due to it being a team match finale?

Hello all

Gary K – Did you speak to Sarah before the day of the qualifier? If you had called before the qualifier I could have got you a place. Other anglers that called us saying that had registered but the details hadn’t reached us, we let fish. We did ask anglers to confirm with us if they were fishing their qualifier. On some qualifiers I rang down the list of registered anglers to get more anglers fishing their qualifier. SOme of the anglers in the top 20 I couldn’t contact – emails and phone calls were ignored so I didn’t know whether they were going to fish their qualifier. It would have been unfair to offer their place to someone else further down the list and then get an oversubscribed qualifier if they decided to show.

tonywilliams – There has been a problem with some anglers registering which we were not aware of until the final week of registering. It seems that anglers were registering their friends if they did not have an email address. The computer system only accepted one name per email address so some details were submitted but never reached us. We are working on an improved system for next year. Anglers that simply did not register or did not attempt to register were not allowed to fish their qualifiers accept in those counties where less than 20 anglers registered.

mickyd- Which email address did you email? I responded to all emails sent to [email protected] or directly to myself.

missabite – There is now an individual final as well as a team final. We are always wanting to hear of suggestions for improvements to the competition so please email your ideas to the County Champs email address mentioned above. When we have a meeting to discuss the 2010/2011 competition and improvements for 2011/2012 I will mention any improvements I receive.

Tight lines

Abi – Angling Times

When does it start again then? 🙂

All details will be announced in the paper shortly after the final. Like last year there will be a gap between the final and the competition starting again to give us time to reflect and make any adjustments necessary to the running of the competition.

But I’m having a good run now! 🙁 :p