Flash · ~6 hour window
A notification drops the night before. One species, one region, one morning. Fish it or miss it.
Every other week
Alternating freshwater and saltwater events, so each water gets a full tournament every month. Runs itself on schedule — winners are verified by a human.
Twice a year
Semi-annual majors. Bigger boards, bigger bragging rights, and the flagship prizes worth planning a season around.
Catch & releaseEvery tournament fish swims back. Entries without a clean release don’t count.
Regional bracketsTexas doesn’t fish against the Shenandoah. You compete against your own water.
No cash potsMedals, merch, tackle, gift cards. Prizes you keep, not payouts that attract cheaters.
Spot-safePublic entries show a zone, never a pin. Your honey hole is not the entry fee.
Every angler knows the tournament photo that doesn’t add up — the gallery upload from three summers ago, the tape measure that starts at two inches. Kaizu tournaments are built so that the honest angler never has to wonder.
Entries can only be captured live, in the app, with the measurement in frame. Every entry is screened automatically, and anything that looks off goes to a human reviewer before a winner is called. No winner is declared by an algorithm.
Joining takes seconds. Cheating takes more effort than fishing.
Live capture only. The entry photo is taken inside the app at the moment of the catch — no gallery uploads, ever.
Measure in frame. Scale or length board visible in the shot, or it doesn’t score.
Screened, then reviewed. Automatic first pass; flagged entries get human eyes.
Winner confirmed by hand. Boards close on schedule, but a person signs off on every result.