YOUR TWF affiliated active club can earn spots for your TWF members in the Bass Pro Shops / Cabela’s National Team Championship (NTC) each year and it is very easy.
- First thing is TWF does not individual teams to the NTC, never has. Rather TWF awards a TWF club or sanctioned event allocated spots for them to qualify their TWF members into and attend to represent YOUR club/circuit or event. Further, no team is allowed to “buy” a spot into the NTC. Every team must earn their spot via a legitimate sanctioned TWF club or event, and all anglers must be a TWF member before qualifying. Only TWF clubs and members who meet those requirements and are qualified before Dec 31 each year are eligible to attend the following year’s NTC.
- Every active sanctioned TWF club earns one (1) spot to award for just for being a sanctioned TWF club each year .
- Earning a minimum of (3) club spots is easy too just for signing up with TWF defined above and hold (4) or more club tournaments a year (cannot just be TWF sidepots as sidepots have their own NTC spots that come with them) and then sending us your club event results so we can help promote your club and verify events.
- Results of your all your annual club events should be submitted to TWF ASAP after the event (sooner is better for your club exposure) and certainly within 30 days. NO results will be counted toward your clubs event numbers that are received after January 10th, 2025.
- All TWF clubs who hold a minimum of (4) club ran and managed events per year (prior to Dec 31 each year) (that are not TWF sidepots) and send in their event results to TWF for posting on the national www.walleyefederation.com website earn (3) NTC spots to award to your TWF members! This serves a couple of needs:
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- We WANT to promote YOUR club and your TWF anglers! Send us results and maybe a picture and we will help promote YOUR TWF club, and TWF anglers, and walleye fishing in general on a national website.
- AND this also verifies that your club is a legitimate walleye club holding events. What we want is people fishing and legitimate TWF qualifiers to a true National Team Championship.
The more TWF members you have fishing and the more events you hold the more spots you may be able to earn!
In the event there are left over spots after the 1st initial allotment of NTC bids goes out to the clubs and in order to help reduce the reallocation processing times, all reallocated spots will be awarded based on the SIZE of your TWF mother club TWF memberships as of Dec 31 of the qualifying year as follows:
Active TWF clubs will have opportunity to fill reallocated spots based on TWF Mother club membership as follows; For (24) TWF mother club members = (1) reallocated bid, (36) TWF mother club members = (2) reallocated bids, (48) TWF mother clubs members = (3) reallocated bids, etc.) While there MAY be a situation arise that there is more reallocated bids using this formula than there are open spots left before we reach the event limit, spots will be filled on a first registered basis until the event is full then all reallocated spots remaining will be void. So when you receive your reallocation notice DO NOT wait, register early or you may left be out. NOTICE – Mother club status canbe changed ONLY once time each year and ONLY changed by the angler themselves by contacting TWF directly at 580-765-9031.
ALL anglers attempting to qualify for the National Team Championship (NTC) must be ACTIVE TWF members. Anglers who are not ACTIVE TWF members in the year in which they qualified (Dec 31. deadline.) may not be allowed to participate in the NTC, this would also include eligible substitutions.
HUGE benefits just for joining TWF and it is low cost.
Every TWF club and member gets FULL TWF benefits such as:
- up to 3 Million Dollars per member of liability insurance coverage for all your club events
- 10,000 AD&D event coverage for every member,
- Eligibility to compete in many TWF sanctioned events such as the National Team Championship (NTC) or Masters Walleye Circuit (MWC) event and MUCH more.
