{"id":2865,"date":"2018-02-02T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/?p=2865"},"modified":"2018-02-06T11:39:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T16:39:29","slug":"2018-cka-rookie-of-the-year-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/?p=2865","title":{"rendered":"2018 CKA Rookie of the Year Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We are proud to announce, for the first time in CKA\u2019s 5-year history, that we will crown a 2018 CKA Rookie of the Year (ROY) at season\u2019s end. &nbsp;As kayak angling continues to grow (in particular kayak bass fishing), we devised the ROY as a way to welcome and reward newcomers to our series who fish throughout the season with us.<\/p>\n<p>And so: The Rookie who achieves the four highest event point totals at the conclusion of the 2018 season (Gate City Kayak Classic) will be our first ever Rookie of the Year.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eligible participants cannot have fished <em>any<\/em> CKA events in the first 4 years. Season 5 must be your first season.<\/li>\n<li>No additional entry required.<\/li>\n<li>Eligible participants will have their (4) <em>best<\/em> finishing point events count towards the title.<\/li>\n<li>Please contact CKA via Facebook Messenger and\/or the CKA Website to identify yourself as eligible and that you will be participating (results will be posted throughout the season).<\/li>\n<li>Prize announcements will be coming soon and throughout the year as we continue to build upon a one of a kind prize package.<\/li>\n<li>Rookie of the Year receives an automatic bid to the entry-free Tournament of Champions in October.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharelinks\" style=\"\">\n\t<a title=\"2018 CKA Rookie of the Year Announcement\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/?p=2865\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"56\" height=\"20\" alt=\"facebook\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-google-twitter-share\/images\/facebook.png\"><\/a>\n\t<a title=\"2018 CKA Rookie of the Year Announcement\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/share?url=https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/?p=2865\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"60\" height=\"20\" alt=\"google plus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-google-twitter-share\/images\/googleplus.png\"><\/a>\n\t<a title=\"2018 CKA Rookie of the Year Announcement\" Nagar\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=2018 CKA Rookie of the Year Announcement https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/?p=2865\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"70\" height=\"20\" alt=\"twitter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/facebook-google-twitter-share\/images\/twitter.png\"><\/a>\n\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; We are proud to announce, for the first time in CKA\u2019s 5-year history, that we will crown a 2018 CKA Rookie of the Year (ROY) at season\u2019s end. &nbsp;As kayak angling continues to grow (in particular kayak bass fishing), we devised the ROY as a way to welcome and reward newcomers to our series who fish throughout the season with us. And so: The Rookie who achieves the four highest event point totals at the conclusion of the 2018 season (Gate City Kayak Classic) will be our first ever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[32,25,141,24,27,26,136,140],"class_list":["post-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tournaments","category-uncategorized","tag-carolina-kayak-anglers","tag-cka","tag-cka-roy","tag-kayak-bass-fishing","tag-kayak-tournament-fishing","tag-largemouth-bass","tag-rookie-of-the-year","tag-roy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/ROY-banner.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8fryh-Kd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2875,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions\/2875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolinakayakanglers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}