Official 2015 Oregon Rockfish Classic Announcment

I called chinook bend and reserved a spot. It is priced per tent/ vehicle in the site but they said with us they are a bit lenient. The cost is 25 to be close to the festivities, or 30 to be on the river plus the 20%. I booked mine from Thursday night to sunday and I only have a hammock if someone wants to join me.

Any thoughts on hard cider for the ladies/men who don't drink beer as cider is fast growing in the PNW. Don't get me wrong, I love Ninkasi and don't really care about cider, but just another option for others to have fun.

Any thoughts on hard cider for the ladies/men who don't drink beer as cider is fast growing in the PNW. Don't get me wrong, I love Ninkasi and don't really care about cider, but just another option for others to have fun.

I live in albany, I could go talk to two towns cider if one of the administrative gives me some more information on how they could sponsor

I have a Question/suggestion for all the volunteers of the ORC. I know a kayak Is a big motivator for the ORC(I know it got my attention) and I understand if there isn't going to be one given to the 1st place person. What there was a way to set up a Pre raffle. Could the people who are setting up the link for paying for the tournament also add a link or page to buy raffle tickets. Obviously you guys would decide how much the raffle tickets would cost and what kayak would be raffled. If there was a way we could do this I know me personally would buy $100 of raffle tickets. Now im not very good at math(joke) but 100+ competitors + family and friends + 5 to 10 dollar raffle tickets = at least a couple thousand dollars. Also all of the additional money(left over after buying a kayak) would go to HOW or any other charity that may be in the mix. This will get more people to pitch in and buy raffle tickets. This may not be formulated very well but that could be the long day I have had and beer I have drank.

So my finally thoughts on this are it is a win-win for everyone. There would still be a kayak being given away at the ORC and the Charities would get more money. 

Am I just crazy, or would this work? anyone agree/disagree? or have there two cents to put in?

Any thoughts on hard cider for the ladies/men who don't drink beer as cider is fast growing in the PNW. Don't get me wrong, I love Ninkasi and don't really care about cider, but just another option for others to have fun.

I live in albany, I could go talk to two towns cider if one of the administrative gives me some more information on how they could sponsor

Two towns is awesome!

All I request publicly at this time is that the ORC stays an NWKA event.   With that, I don't really care who puts in the time to facilitate it, but please keep it an NWKA event.  Right now with NA making all the decisions, changes and moving all the info and updates to Facebook, it leaves me wondering where is this going long term? 

I know Facebook is all the rage right now and is great for those that use Facebook for communication, but this should be an NWKA event, thus fully disclosed on NWKA forums throughout it's entirety.  If it is now going to be a full on NA event with a different direction, it possibly renamed something else.   

On top of that, I fully support raising money for HOW, along with Depoe Bay's Neighbors for Kids.  In the past few years, HOW has been supported separately from the ORC entries with small side bets like the Barbie Rod challenge, donation can, and a great dinner/breakfast put on by Ling Banger and company. 

I too would like to know why the registration was raised this year, and what the breakdown is "before" the signup gets underway, rather than after it's all over.

I will reply more in depth later however folks please realized that Next is not making all the decisions and in fact the decision of higher entry and no boat were largely in part made by several of the guys who planned previous years events through meetings with them.  More than anything I have come in just to do logiatics and sponsor outreach.  Next is simply providing resources and staff at their expense to ensure everything goes smooth as possible and that everybody has a good time.  The decision to not give away a kayak is not at a planning level bit is at a sponsorship level.

There has always been updates on the facebook and absolutely we will put updates in this thread as well.  The reason you will see the Facebook (which has existed since long before i was part of this plannjng) utilized more for is to keep sponsors wanting to support the event.  I absolutely hate social media personally but every vendor now days views these pages as important marketing assets and so we want to be sure to give them the support and exposure the deserve thorough this avenue.   100% does not mean we wont do updates on NWKA or keep this an NWKA event.

I will work on gettjng a solid breakdown for entry fees this week and also make slme announcements about prizes and all as the stakes are a lot higher than anybody is giving credit for.  While we may not be giving away a Hobie there are tons of other sponsors stepping up to make this event successful and we have some really cool stuff in the works.

 I just checked ORC on Facebook. On April 3,2015 it was stated that sign-ups would be happening "soon". That was a month and a half ago.........

 With less than two months until July11.... where is the sign-up and registration

 Get on it !!!!
 Put it on NWKA's home page.

I thought NWKA was a social media and more specifically one for guys that buy kayaks and fishing gear? I would think the fishing and kayak gear sponsors "that should be who sponsors these things"would want more of us looking at there gear then say snowboarders, hikers, mountain bikers? Not trying to fan any flames just putting my$0.02 in.

Thank you for the official announcement. I will try and rally a bunch of NCKA to come up again this year. Couple questions...

- This is NOT a Hobie Worlds Qualifier?

- The entry has risen to $50 this year. The extra money going as cash prizes? Does this include launching fee?

- No Boat for 1st place this year?

- Not an official NWKA only event?

- Is this a non-profit event? Charity donation?

Thanks for putting this together. I run several NCKA events and I know how much work these can be. Keep up the good fight.

Mike

Registration is live!

Registrstion is live and link will be up here shortly.  Sorry for delay in putting uo registration- we wanted to ensure we did through new system which should make easier on everybody

While forums like NWKA is a social media they are jot monitored or treated near the same as Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram unfortunately (like isaid I hate Facebook and all personally).  Announcements will be put in both places.


This years event is not a qualifier.  Again a group decision that verh much incliluded last years planners.

No boat but a very nice prize pack for 1st place that should easily rival or exceed the value of a boat and be more useful to anglers hopefully.

Entry fee breakdown i will get together this week for folks.  There will be some new ways to win and some new goodies for anglers which we will outline as well.

100% a Charity non profit event.  Next and other sponsors will not benefit from the entry fees or other funds.  Entry will support the event, HOW, and Neighbors for Kids.

Utilizing multiple facets of social media only gets more attention to the event, NWKA will always be its home, but it's also going to get announced other places because it gets a great response and can be shown to a much broader audience, which gets more people in the sport, and on NWKA.

Next Adventure has been the largest sponsor of this event for a while. They donate money and resources to make this tourny happen, as you all remember the "Free Boat" last year was a $2,000 Next Adventure gift card. Next doesn't want to do that this year. Not my call, but not unreasonable in the slightest. 

The planning of this event has fallen a lot on myself and CJ, in no way are we making all the decisions. We are just the go between for sponsors, and the ones putting together the day to day operations of the event. Most of this is on our time.

This is everyones tournament, if you want to find a way to raffle a boat or get one for a prize, by all means please do so, make this event the way you want, let us know how we can help.

 I will say that the door to help plan is and always been open, and very few if any community members have attempted to help beyond comments online.

Wait, so you raised the price to a specific amount, and can't explain why you arrived at that amount? That seems bass-ackwards to me. The legit way to go about it is to add up your costs/desired donation per registration amount, and THEN use that figure as your registration fee. An arbitrary, un-itemizable figure which you guys can't explain at the drop of a hat doesn't sit right.

It's a non profit tournament and you're raising the price to $50?  WTF?