The 2008 Los Sueños Signature Billfish Series
consists of two tournaments: January 9-12 and March 12-15.

Format: Boat tournaments, exclusively catch and release.

Sanctioning: Both tournaments are sanctioned by the World Billfish Series and IGFA/Rolex

Target species: Marlin (all species) and Pacific sailfish.

Scoring: Points will be awarded for each successful release, 500 for any species of marlin and 100 for Pacific sailfish.

Monitoring: The Tournament Promoter will provide IGFA-certified observers who will rotate on participating boats and complete the scorecards, which will be verified against the Committee Boat’s radio log. Each boat is responsible for supplying a digital camera or video recorder with date/time stamp capabilities and must provide photographic or video evidence of each marlin release.

Entry Fee: $7,000 per boat per tournament or $10,000 per boat for the series (both tournaments). The entry fee includes six social tickets for all tournament events; four angler bags; and T-shirts and caps for anglers and crew. In addition, the entry fee qualfies boats to win trophies and cash prizes as defined below.

Prizes: All boats are eligible for trophies and cash prizes, to be awarded to the top three boats per tournament based on overall billfish release points. The cash jackpot will be distributed as follows: 50% to first place, 30% to second place and 20% to third place.

“The cash prize purse will vary in accordance with the number of entries received, but is estimated at $150,000 based on the participation of 50 boats.

As the tournament promoter, Los Sueños will put up an additional guaranteed cash prize of $50,000, to be awarded to the boat with the highest combined billfish release points for the entire series. Boats must fish both tournaments to be eligible for this additional prize.