Waterfowl Festival Calling Contests
2012 Waterfowl Festival Calling Contest Results!
Times:
Friday, November 8th
3:00pm, Senior Preliminaries
Saturday, November 9th
12:00pm, Junior Preliminaries
7:00pm, Finals
Location: Easton High School
Each November the best callers in the world flock to the Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland. With audiences of 600+, five contests and incredible prize packages on the line, the stage is always set for an exciting evening. The beauty of Easton's contests is the level playing ground. Anyone, novice or master, can blow. Proud duck and goose callers representing at least 16 states and Canada make the journey to Easton for the coveted titles.
Admission
Attendance at the preliminary rounds is free, and admission to the finals on Saturday evening is $5, or free with a Festival VIP badge.
Registration
Registration can be made in advance by downloading (here) and submitting the registration form or on site before the preliminary rounds begin in each division on Friday and Saturday.
REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED BEFORE PRELIMINARY ROUNDS!
Questions?
Click here for Calling Contest Frequently Asked Questions
2013 Contests
World Championship Goose Calling Contest®
Senior Division: Callers of any age, $100 registration fee
Junior Division: 16 years and younger, $25 registration fee
The World Championship Goose Calling title is the title that all goose callers strive to achieve. Since 1976 this contest has attracted the top callers in the US & Canada and easily boasts the best competition in the nation. A caller may be named World Goose Champion up to three times, after which he will be retired from World Goose competition. After achieving the World Champion Goose Calling title, a caller is qualified to compete in the World Goose Calling Champion of Champions Contest, which occurs every five years. The next Champion of Champions Contest will be held in 2015.
World Championship Live Goose Calling Contest™
Senior Division only, $100 registration fee
Introduced in 2006, this contest embraces the vocabulary of geese in their natural habitat. Throw out the clinical routines of typical contests, close your eyes and picture geese flying overhead, feeding in a field or bobbing on water. These are the sounds you will hear. For the callers, it is a more relaxed experience that comes from their heart and their love of the birds.
World Championship Live Duck Calling Contest®
Senior Division only, $100 registration fee
Beginning as an exhibition competition in 2003, the Live Duck was met with much success and continues to draw a crowd. Always an exciting contest, the callers enjoy the freedom of this contest. Callers must simply sound like real live ducks as heard in the wild.
Mason-Dixon Regional Duck Calling Contest
Senior Division, $50 registration fee
Note: The Senior Division includes callers who will have reached their 17th birthday by the date of the World Championship Duck Calling Contest in Stuggart, AK held Thanksgiving weekend.
Junior Division: 16 & younger, $25 registration fee
The Mason-Dixon is a qualifying contest of the World Championship Duck Calling Contest in Stuttgart, Arkansas that takes place each Thanksgiving weekend. The World Duck is an invitational in which only duck calling champions of a sanctioned contest may compete. The Waterfowl Festival is proud to have hosted the Mason-Dixon Regional Duck Calling Contests since 1976.
Sponsors of the 2012 Calling Contests
Canada Goose $5000 +
Canvasback $1500 - $2499
Wood Duck $650 - $1499
Albright’s Gun Shop
Aqua Pools
Avery Outdoors
Bowen's Waterfowling Adventures
Eastern Shore Vacation Rentals
Final Flight Outfitters
G & K World Championship Calls
Higdon Decoys
James Myers Company
Molly's Place
Real-Geese Decoys
Snow Goose $350 - $649
Charles Jobes Decoys
Ducks Unlimited - South Atlantic
Sean Mann Outdoors
Tim Grounds Championship Calls
Specklebelly Goose Up to $349
Duck Brand Bands, Inc.
Field Proven Calls
Shore Sportsman