Saturday, April 25, 2015 Starting Time 6:30 am or Safe Light

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1 Ca sh Aw Priz ard es ed Saturday, April 25, 2015 Starting Time 6:30 am or Safe Light Entry Fee: $175 (Team of 2 per boat) Includes: Big Bass Pot - Attendance Prizes, Goody Bags - Free Coffee, Donuts, Breakfast Sandwiches Tournament Morning - Friday night Banquet Catered by Half Sauced BBQ (all above included in entry fee-one meal ticket per participant) Signup Early, at the Pre-Tournament Banquet or 5am at Lakeview Resort No late Fee For additional information: Take-off: Lakeview Resort Sunrise Beach, Mo Lake of the Ozarks Boat Launch: Please launch your boat from Shawnee Bend Public Access and assemble by water at Lakeview Resort Friday April 24, 2015 Thank you Banquet & Tournament Pre-registration Doors 5:30pm, silent auction, dinner and preregistration. Dinner Catered by Half Sauced BBQ Silent Auction 7pm Doors 7:30 pm. Location: Indoor Pavilion at Lakeview Resort. Cost: One meal ticket per participant. Additional Call: MDA 314/ Ask for Justin Fahs or HSO 636/ Ask for Greg David Cell 314/ Sponsorship opportunities still available! 2014 Tournament Winners & MDA Ambassador Zack Winkle

2 Directions From Hwy 5 (14 miles N. of Camdenton / 2 miles S. of Sunrise Beach) take Hwy F 1/2 mile to Hwy TT. follow Hwy TT 3 1/2 miles to the end. Stay right at the Y on Lakeview Resort Blvd. Follow Lakeview Resort signs From Hwy Business 54 (Bagnell Dam Blvd) to stop light. Cross Community Bridge to Hwy MM. Continue 6 + miles to Hwy TT, turn right and go 1 1/2 miles to end. Stay right at the Y on Lakeview Resort Blvd. Follow Lakeview Resort signs. Mention you are with the MDA/Home Service Oil Buddy Bass Tournament when making your reservations. Must bring own towels, coffee filters and hand soap

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5 A Special Thanks To All 2014Tournament Sponsors Large Mouth Bass Sponsors.. **Sponsorship Opportunities ** **Still Available**

6 A Special thanks To All 2014 Tournament Sponsors Mangelsdorf Enterprises Sandra Overberg Govero Land Service Gas Equipment Mirage Products **Sponsorship Opportunities ** **Still Available**

7 Rules & Regulations 1. RULES: KNOWLEDGE OF THESE RULES IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF EACH CONTESTANT. Failure to read these rules or ignorance of them is no excuse. The following rules for the HSO Buddy Bass Tournament to benefit MDA on May 10, 2014, will be interpreted solely by the tournament director. The director reserves the right to reject any entry if he/she feels it is not in the best interest of MDA. Entry form and attached waiver, release and consent must be completely filled out and signed by BOTH contestants. Any announcements made at the tournament site take precedent over written rules. In case of breakdown, or early departure from the tournament lake, the team doing so must contact the tournament director or appointed staff member. Failure to do so will result in the loss of any point earned at that tournament. 2. ELIGIBILITY: All individuals, 18 years of age or older with a paid entry fee and signed waiver are eligible to fish. This is an open event. Teams will consist of two (2) people per boat. 3. ENTRY FEE: Entry fees are $175.00, which includes a Big Bass Pot. Registration at the ramp. No refunds. No Late Fees 4. PAYBACKS: The tournament will pay one place for every eight (8) teams entered into the tournament based on 100 teams entered. 5. CHECK-IN and PRE-MEETING: ONE TEAM MEMBER MUST CHECK-IN EITHER THE NIGHT BEFORE OR MORNING OF TOURNAMENT! FAILURE TO DO SO WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE DISQUALIFICATION. A pre-meeting will take place on the water approximately ten (10) minutes prior to the official start on the water. Idle by live well check may take place at any time either on or off the water. Any extreme violations will be grounds for disqualification from this and future events. 6. SCORING: Large mouth, small mouth and spotted bass will be scored, five (5) fish limit, lake rules apply. Any frozen or iced fish presented for weigh-in will result in immediate disqualification. Short fish will result in a one (1) pound penalty plus the loss of the fish. The use of ice in a live well as a cooling agent in hot water is permitted. The dead fish penalty will be one (1) pound penalty per fish. No more than five (5) fish are allowed in live well (in possession) at any time. Anyone bringing more then five (5) fish to the weigh-in scales will not be allowed to weigh-in ANY fish. Courtesy bumping will NOT be allowed at the official weigh station. A courtesy bump board may be provided near the weigh-in line. Once fish are turned over to the weigh-in officials, contestants cannot touch ANY fish again except to choose the big fish of the stringer for weighing. Lake of the Ozarks note: 12 inch Kentucky s will continue to be allowed unless changes are announced the morning of the tournament. Make sure that it is a Kentucky if it is less than 15 inches. If it is not a Kentucky and less than 15 inches, you will receive a short fish penalty and also be subject to a fine from the State for possessing an illegal (short) fish. 7. POLYGRAPH: All contestants, by signing the official entry form, consent to receive a voice-stress, or polygraph test. Tests will be given at random at the tournament director s discretion. Anyone who fails the test will be immediately disqualified. 8. SPORTSMENSHIP and SAFETY: Safe fishing and safe boating practices are expected during tournament hours. Life jackets and the outboard kill switch must be used any time the boat s big motor is running at above an idle. No alcohol or controlled substance can be used or allowed in the boat during the tournament hours. 9. PROTEST: All protests must be submitted in writing to the tournament director within fifteen (15) minutes of the weigh-in completion. The appointed Tournament Advisory Board will handle all protests. 10. LATE PENTALTY: One pound per minute, up to ten (10) minutes, then disqualification. 11. TIES: All ties will be broken by 1) Big Bass, 2) Most fish weighed in, and last 3) By earliest entry. 12. TACKLE and EQUIPMENT: Only artificial lures and pork lures are allowed. Rod and reel fishing only, one rod in use at a time. All boats must be equipped with an operable kill switch attached to the big engine. All rules (laws) for the particular body of water must be obeyed. 13. BOATS and MOTORS: Any boat 14 feet or longer powered by a motor 10 horsepower or more with a kill switch will be accepted. Kill switches must be in good working condition. All boats must meet B.I.A. and Coast Guard requirements. No over powered boats. Each boat must have a functional bilge pump and properly aerated live well. 14. LOCATIONS: Anywhere on the tournament lake, except 50 yards of another contestants, anchored boat, 50 yards from any gas pump or public dock, and any designated off limit. No trailering of the boat during tournament hours without consent of the director. 15. OFF LIMITS: Point to Point of Public Launch Number 2 (PB2) and any other location announced at pre tournament meeting and/or morning of tack off. Any location marks off limits by water patrol. 16. INSURANCE: Boat owners must have at least $100, of Boating Liability Insurance. Proof of insurance may be asked for at any time and maybe a question on the polygraph test. Friday April 24, 2015 Thank you Banquet & Tournament Pre-registration Doors 5:30pm, silent auction, dinner and pre-registration. Dinner Catered by Half Sauced BBQ Silent Auction 7pm Doors 7:30 pm. Location: Pavilion at Lakeview Resort. Cost: One meal ticket per participant. Additional tickets may be purchased night of banquet.

8 Help For Today, Hope For Tomorrow! Since it s founding in 1950, the Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) has become one of the nation s largest and best-known voluntary health agencies, dedicated to conquering more than 43 neuromuscular diseases that affect a million Americans of all ages. We never stop fighting. MDA individuals and sponsors, like you, raise funds year-round to help make possible our worldwide research efforts, which funds some 400 individual scientific investigations annually, representing the largest single endeavor to advance knowledge of neuromuscular diseases and to find cures and treatments for them. MDA provides a vast array of comprehensive medical services; from the 235 hospital-affiliated clinics across the country, enhancing mobility and independent living that is available in each community through MDA s local network of field offices, to over 90 MDAsponsored camps offering a wide range of programs for young people ages 6-21, where activities are geared toward abilities not disabilities. For more information visit THANK YOU FOR CARING! Meeting & Banquet

9 We need your support for our Annual Home Service Oil Co. Buddy Bass Tournament to Benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Date: Friday, April 24 th & Saturday, April 25 th, 2015 Lakeview Resort, Sunrise Beach, MO Please join us on Friday, April 24 th from 5:30pm-7:30pm, for tournament pre-registration and dinner located inside the Pavilion at Lakeview Resort. Silent auction and tournament rules to follow dinner. Tournament: Saturday, April 25 th ; Take off at 6:30am (safe light) Visit for more details It's MDA/HSO Buddy Bass Tournament time again and we are looking forward to another record breaking year! We are going back to Lakeview Resort, just around the corner from the Shawnee Bend Ramp on Hwy. TT just across the new pay bridge and Half Sauced Barbeque will be catering our meeting, FREE dinner and silent auction on Friday. Last year, along with our Shamrock campaign, we raised almost $50,000 for MDA. As always we continue to strive to break our own record, year after year, and without key sponsors like you, we simply can t do it. Our sponsors are the lifeblood of this event and we want to make sure we have plenty of time to be sure you get the proper recognition for your contributions, so; We are starting our campaign early again this year because we want to give our sponsors the maximum exposure on all our literature, web sites, tournament flyers, radio ads, direct mail and whatever we put in front of the public to promote our MDA/HSO Bass Buddy Tournament. So, if you would be so generous, around the most generous time of the year; Christmas, to find it in your heart and your pocketbook to commit (not pay at this time) the same level of sponsorship or higher than last year, check it off on the attached mailer and put it back in the mail, we can get the campaign off and running on the right note at the right time of the year; Merry Christmas! THANK YOU! SEE YOU ON APRIL 24, 2015, AT LAKEVIEW RESORT ON BEAUTIFUL LAKE OF THE OZARKS. PS Please make your lodging accommodations as early as you can at Lakeview Resort. Last year was a complete sellout and we don t want any of our friends left out. David Mangelsdorf President & CEO Home Service Oil Co. Name/Company: Trolling for Sponsors Contact Person: Address: Phone: You can count on us as: LARGE MOUTH ($1,000) Two (2) boat entries, Promotional in print, Name & logo on all event materials (over 5,000 distributed) identifying your company as a Large Mouth Bass Sponsor, Sign with company name and logo displayed at event (sign provided), Special mention on Home Service Oil Company/MDA Buddy Bass Web Site. SMALL MOUTH ($500) One (1) boat entry, Sign with company name and /or logo displayed at event (sign provided), Company Name listed on tournament brochure, Mentions on radio, Listed on Home Service Oil Company/ MDA Buddy Bass Web Site. CRAPPIE ($300) Company name displayed at event, (sign provided). BLUE GILL ($100) Name listed at event.

10 ANNUAL MDA/HSO BUDDY BASS TOURNAMENT SAVE THE DATE!! Annual MDA/Home Service Oil Buddy Bass Tournament Friday, April 24 & Saturday April 25, 2015 LOCATION Same as last year: Lakeview Resort, Lake of the Ozarks MO Muscular Dystrophy Association Attn: HSO Buddy Bass 530 Maryville Center Dr., Suite 410 St. Louis, MO Muscular Dystrophy Association Attn: HSO Buddy Bass 530 Maryville Center Dr., Suite 410 St. Louis, MO Muscular Dystrophy Association Attn: HSO Buddy Bass 530 Maryville Center Dr., Suite 410 St. Louis, MO 63141