Fan engagement is good for those attending the Expo, as access to those anglers on Saturday and Sunday is easy. The attendance is the best REDCREST yet. And no, we don’t think it will ever be a Classic. The Classic on the other hand is too crowded for us to visit with everyone we have in our booth. This one is not as crowded, and we were fairly busy yesterday until late afternoon. The crowd drifts through here from top floor to second floor, and it always has in Birmingham.
Low compared to what? The Classic or last year's Expo?Originally Posted by Mark Perry
Shouldn't shock anyone they're not pulling Classic Expo type attendance numbers. If the numbers are considerably lower then last years RC that'd be a concern.
BPT isn't BASS, it never will be.
That is why I asked it as a question. I'm curious as well.
From pictures and videos I saw on social it looked like very light crowds. However, maybe those are deceiving. From two people there on Friday, I heard it was less people than the first one in Tulsa.
They packed the Tulsa REDCREST with several schools and more from the area. They have not packed other events with local efforts. The crowd at Charlotte and Birmingham were both better. Birmingham seems about 30% larger than Charlotte from our observations internally. The crowds seem good at opening and Charlotte was wrapped around the building one morning we noticed it. The Birmingham Saturday crowd was reasonably within our expectations, which we don’t expect today.
We pack up here today and start laying carpet in Tulsa tomorrow. Next year there is some space between the events.
We went yesterday, moderate crowd. The young anglers had very, very easy access to the pros, i.e. KVD, Jordan Lee, Casey Ashley, Randy Howell, Paul Elias, Jimmy Houston, Roland Martin.
They had some nice boats to look over, definitely was the B team representing the manufacturers that I spoke with, except for Phoenix Boats. The Phoenix rep I spoke with (Jeff Hartung) was amazing and knew the product very well.
He actually changed my mind about Phoenix, I will be giving them another chance to win my business this summer. There were a few wannabe pros there, but thankfully, a larger number of young and upcoming anglers (high school -college age) anglers attended. Overall good show for what it cost.
I think they made a mistake by not keeping it the FLW cup name. No one knows what a redcrest is. The name sounds like a bird or duck to me. If it was within 2 hrs I would have went just to check on it as we don’t really have any good fishing expos in the Louisville area. MLF I’m not really a fan of the format but like many of the anglers that fish it.
And that will continue for many many many years at the Classic. How long will it continue for Redcrest?
It was okay. Got some good stuff on sale but it is not even in the same stratosphere as the Classic expo.
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I remember when they announced what the championship will be called and explained why Redcrest. Ducketts said “I thought it sounded cool”. Thats the only reason, because he came up with the name.
Companies are rebranded all the time, sometimes it makes sense, other times it’s makes people wonder.
i don’t have any ill will against MLF, I definitely find many of their decisions comical and ego driven, it’s also hilarious to watch the die hard fans and actual MLF plants lose their minds on here. I’d go to redcrest if it was closer. Wouldn’t drive 2hrs but I also don’t attend any of the elite events on 1000 islands or Cayuga even though they’re both under 2hrs
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I live a couple of hours away from Birmingham in NW Georgia and always go to the Classic Expo when in Birmingham, Knoxville, etc. Won't make the trip for the Redcrest. Chicakamauga would be a good venue for it as fishing would be pretty good and Chattanooga could support a smaller venue like the Redbreast Expo.
That is the gold standard as it should be. It's got decades of history and rightfully so. It's not an apples to apples comparison by any stretch.
It just seems there always has to be a comparison. It's the reason they split off into their tourney.
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There’s a comparison because MLF made it so.
From the very first one, they beat their chest saying redcrest will be bigger than the Classic. So obviously people are going to call them out and compare it to the classic based on claims directly from BPT ownership. When that didn’t come to fruition, they attempted to ban BPT anglers from fulfilling contract obligation to attend the classic. When that blew up in their face, BPT scheduled a tournament on top of the classic the following year force their way. To boost attendance numbers to compete against the classic, they also made attendance mandatory for college and high school anglers in the past
all comparisons and criticisms could’ve been mitigated to some degree if BPT humbled themselves from the get go. It’ll never be the classic, and finding their own identity would prove more beneficial. They 100% brought it upon themselves.
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The comparisons are their own fault. They could have easily just created their new league and done their own thing. Instead they chose to constantly take shots at BASS. Say their RedCrest was the true Super Bowl of bass fishing. Make commercials saying livewells are evil....etc. etc.
Its all their own doing, and as it ended up they themself are on the s#it end of that comparison.
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