u/bryan91919

Im surprised there's not more chat about this how's everyone feeling about it? Here's been my experience:

I didnt touch till day 2, wasnt going to participate but end of day 1 I finished trading my accounts and said "why not?"

Having alot of fun but not sure at the moment its reflecting skill as much as one would hope. To get in top 1000 you need 10k profit at this point, doing so in a couple days is gambling, but thats the game here.

I think round 2 will be a lot more interesting, I expect a lot will win with almost no profit, I'm betting a lot of the guys who will get there took a lot of risk and bought back in a few times, which I don't think will work well round 2.

I doubt ill make it to round 2, I'm up 5500 now and doubt ill make top 1000, unless I go big and get lucky, which I will if I'm not close friday. Kinda hoping a lot of those will get greedy and blow up in next day or 2 thinning out the big balances.

Overall its a nice distraction for the dead time in between serious trading, I can't really copy trade with it because the risk id take with my fundeds wouldn't add up anywhere near what it'll take to make top 1000.

I'm a little nervous about accidentally hedging, not sure if hedge rule applies to world cup account traded along funded accounts, but not gonna risk it.

Next year I think qualifiers should have trailing drawdown that never locks, this would thin out some of the gambling.

I'm relatively new and went out with my new gun today, got a clean shot at a barricuda im guessing was 30+ pounds. Shot it from about 7 feet away, looked like a clean hit, fish swam away and didnt look injured, after fumbling my reload (new gun, only shot 1 or 2 times) i noticed the spear tip was bent on a 25+ degree angle. Its a 6mm spear on a 100 cm gun with 2 16mm bands.

What im wondering is: is it reasonably believable I bent the tip hitting the fish, or, is that unlikely enough that what likely did happen is i bent the tip in the previous hour without knowing it/ or bent it while reloading.

I'm comfortable believing i just overlooked the bent tip and missed the fish for one reason or another, but I would hate to not buy a bigger spear if this is something that happens with medium sized fish and thin spears.