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“The first 30 minutes of the tournament was where it was slow. The technology was running slow, the app servers for the app were running slow, but we tried to communicate that all fish that were taken, photos were received on a consistent schedule, even if it didn't get uploaded until later in the day.”
“Then after that first bit, it ran pretty well,” Johnson added. “We were really, really happy with how the FishDonkey app worked. They were a good partner. We're really thankful they were able to tweak it to fit our style of a contest.”
One concern going into the 31st iteration of the Brainerd Jaycees $150,000 Ice Fishing Extravaganza was cheating — or tomfoolery, as the organizers describe it — and how organizers could ensure the results were legitimate during a virtual event when judges couldn’t view the fish in person for themselves.