Welcome to Ice Shanty Moniiquey. Lots of great info and people here if ice fishing is your passion. If you would edit your profile to add your location, country, state/province is fine (or more specific if you wish) it can help us provide better answers to your questions or put your comments in perspective. There's folks here from all over
As far as the tournament, A.) It's still early guys. As doeslayer noted signup is the end of December so details usually emerge that month. B.) There has been some talk that the event may be discontinued so we'll have to see how that shakes out.
Isn't it great that it can still be the heat of summer and there's still a cool place to at least talk ice fishing?