Tournament Question and Frustration

[Saberneko]

Can anyone clarify Tournament rules on the time limit and what is counted before and after it expires?

I joined the recent World Bass Tournament and was on my way to go to the Semis (Top 10).  I was able to squeeze in one last Unique Bass and had it hooked on my hands with 2 seconds left.  As limited expired, I tried to keep this larger bass by dropping a smaller Unique, but was able to drop the bass, BUT UNABLE to keep the larger bass before the results window show pops up without my last fish.  As a result, I ended up with only 9 fish and dropped like 50+ ranks and failed to qualify.

As this is my first tournament, I didn't know that the time rule is absolute.  I was under the impression that everything counts as long as you have the fish on your hands before the time expired or at least you are allow a little time to put the fish in the net.  Very tough lessons learned! 

I am hoping that developers can make this rule clearer or enable a function to at least allow you to add/drop/replace your fish after time expires.  Another way is to just show the results window AFTER the Fish menu is closed or when you go into Inventory.  It's VERY frustrating of having to just fished 2 hours (and spent even more hours practicing) and go from a MILE HIGH to a DEEP LOW after this experience.

Just thought I vent a little and also share my experience so it doesn't happen to other people.

Anyway, off to Bolivia.  Hope my luck improves and I don't get messed up on technicalities!

 

 

Edited April 14, 2022 by Saberneko

[Saberneko]

To follow up on my bad luck, I tried to enter the Bolivia tournament today and had an IMMEDIATE Time's Up Window upon entering the tournament at the boat dock.

I saw people posting Youtube videos of having only 30 mins to compete instead of 2 hours, but I had literally 0 seconds.  Ended up not being able to play at all.

Hope the team is able to fix this before the next Tournament.

FYI -- I'm on the xBox side, but playing on the PC.  I've updated to the latest version 1.7.15.

 

 

 

Edited April 15, 2022 by Saberneko

[Tapatalgud]

Times Up bug hit me as well and I was not allowed to compete in Q3. Seems to be a wide problem and I don’t think there will be anything done about it. Devs haven’t been very good solving this kind of issues in the past and considering whats going on in Ukraine we have to give them a break. Its a miracle that the tournament took place at all. I ended up doing custom comp with a friend instead.