How It Works

The Kingfish Cup is a limited entry tournament series that will pay over $450,000 in prize money to winners in 2018.  It will offer 120 teams the opportunity to compete over a course of four qualifying events to earn an invitation to a Championship event which will pay out over $110,000 to its winner.  The Kingfish Cup qualifying events are the Jolly Mon, Got’em On, Fall Brawl and Rumble King Mackerel tournaments.  The 120 teams that choose to sign up to participate in the Kingfish Cup will fish these four events to amass the highest three fish point total; there will be one drop weight available out of the four events.  The 30 teams that amass the highest three fish point total will receive an invitation to compete in the NO ENTRY FEE Kingfish Cup Championship event.  In addition, any Kingfish Cup team that wins 1^st place in a qualifying event will earn an invitation to the Championship; thus the largest possible field to fish the Kingfish Cup Championship will be 34 boats.  This final event will be held November 1st-4th from Ocracoke Island, NC. 

To participate in the Kingfish Cup, the  120 teams must pay the required minimum Level 1 entry fee of $1000.  There will be two optional entry levels; Level 2 fee is $2000 and Level 3 fee is $3000.  Entry to Level 1 will close when the 120 boat field is filled.  However, teams within this 120 boat field may add additional optional Levels to their entry up until June 15^th, prior to the start of the first qualifying event, the Jolly Mon.  All 120 teams participating in the Kingfish Cup will compete for Level 1 money while only those teams who enter the optional Level 2 and/or Level 3 will be competing for that level’s money. 

Level 1, 2 and 3 money will be awarded in two different ways.  The first will be through the qualifying events; Jolly Mon, Got’em On, Rumble and Fall Brawl.  In each of these qualifying events, the top 5 finishing Kingfish Cup teams will win money based on which level or levels of entry they are participating.  The second way that Level 1, 2 and 3 money will be awarded is at the Kingfish Cup Championship event.  The 30-34 teams who qualify for the NO ENTRY FEE Championship will be competing for the remainder of the purse not awarded in the qualifying events.

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