Some really bad pegs I've heard, I''ve been told that the winner and runner up were pretty close to each other ,then it was a rapidly diminishing return the further away competetitors were from them.
not so far away some top class matchmen could only scratch for ounces.
The tidal is the best place for a match of that importance providing the organisers choose a day /week when there are really big tides that top and begin to run off around the matches starting time, that way its pretty likely that the end results will be better for everybody taking place.
Take last week as an example, low tides, gin clear and hard to get a decant result, this week very high tides, all clouded up water and its fishing really well.