Sturtevant, Wis., May 23, 2008- BRP congratulates Charles Johnson from Rocky Mount, North Carolina for winning the third Evinrude Ultimate Fantasy Fishing Experience Challenge and for finishing first-place in the Beaver Lake FLW tournament in Rogers, Arkansas.
Johnson's victory earns him a new Evinrude E-TEC 150-horsepower outboard engine valued at over $14,000. The grand prize package, still up for grabs, includes a fully loaded Ranger Z520 Comanche boat, and a once-in-a-lifetime day spent fishing with a favorite Team Evinrude pro angler. With two tour events remaining, new Evinrude Ultimate Fantasy Fishing Experience Challenge players have plenty of opportunity to win valuable tournament prizes and even accumulate enough points to win the grand prize.
Johnson was one of only five players who accumulated 172 Evinrude Power Points in the contest. The winner was determined based on players' answers to a tie-breaker question regarding their team's total weight for fish caught during the tournament. Johnson easily beat out second-place finisher Randall Valentine, from Corona, California by 12 pounds, 2 ounces. Valentine's second-place finish earned him an all-expense paid fishing trip to Wild Life Farms Resort in Casscoe, Arkansas.
Third- and fourth-place finishers include Scott Ashby, from St. Cloud, Minnesota, winner of a Minn-Kota®Maxxum Pro Trolling Motor, and William Ponting, from Murrieta, California, recipient of a Lowrance®X96 Fish Finder. Ashby's and Ponting's guesses were respectively 16 pounds, 10 ounces and 17 pounds, 4 ounces behind the winner.
Phillip Little from Whitesburg, Kentucky is the new overall point leader after three events with 509 Evinrude Power Points. With two tour events remaining, new Evinrude Ultimate Fantasy Fishing Experience Challenge players have plenty of opportunities to win valuable tournament prizes and accumulate enough points to win the grand prize. Currently less than 100 points separates Little from over 100 players, so it's still anyone's game.
"The contest excitement for Evinrude is more than we anticipated,"said Richard Palmersheim, vice president, Marketing and Strategic Planning, Outboard Engines, at BRP. "This added exposure for Evinrude E-TEC engines further validates the positive consumer response to a state-of-the-art technology. We are all anxious to award the final prize this summer and see the results of this exposure - more people on Evinrude E-TEC powered boats."
About the Evinrude Ultimate Fantasy Fishing Experience
It's not too late to begin playing the Evinrude Ultimate Fantasy Fishing Experience Challenge. Players who sign up today still have two more chances to win prizes and accumulate points toward the grand prize, a package worth over $60,000. BRP is awarding $175,000 in prizes. Getting started is simple.
Step 1: register at http://www.evinrude.com/en-US/fantasy ;
Step 2: pick a team of three anglers from a pre-selected group of 15 Evinrude pros;
Step 3: watch as you earn Evinrude Power Points based on the performance of the pros you selected.
The next FLW tournament is scheduled at Ft. Loudoun-Tellico Lakes in Knoxville, Tennessee on June 19-22. Players can begin registering their new team of three Evinrude pros up until the eve of the tournament.
The grand prize winner will choose a fantasy fishing trip with an elite Team Evinrude angler who will share his successful fishing tips and techniques to teach the winner how to catch even more fish. The pro will demonstrate how to use the new Evinrude E-TEC 250 H.O.-powered Ranger Z520 Comanche boat, the Minn-Kota Maxxum Pro trolling motor and the Lowrance fish finder, and even help the winner pick out the best equipment to purchase with the winner's $2,500 Cabela's gift card. Four additional prizes are awarded for the second, third, fourth and fifth highest cumulative Evinrude Power Point totals for all five tournaments. Complete details, including official game rules, can be found onwww.evinrude.com.