These days Ryan with so many different venues to chose from thebest tip I could offer would be:
1. Concentrate on 2 (local) venues if you want to be regularly successful.
2. Go and watch a few matches on each venue and work out what the winning methods and baits are. After a match most match anglers are more than happy to tell you how they fished it and with which baits.
3. Have a practice session or two on different pegs and make up enough rigs to cope with the match, and then make a few more just in case.
4. Prepare well for your first match, have all of your kit clean and in good repair, your baits as fresh as possible and if using groundbait make sure it is riddled well to avoid lumps.
5. Keep an accurate record (write it down straight after the match) of how you fished, what you did right, and wrong, and learn from both for the next match. Make the necessary changes to your match plan for the next event, if necessary.
6. Write down your match plan and re-read it before you kick off.
7. Give yourself as much time as possible to rig up and try to make sure that you have a few minutes spare before the 'all in' to reflect on what you have learned.
8. Have everything neatly to hand including spare top 3's or 4's as required. Ease and economy of movement are great time savers.
9. You catch 'nowt with your hook in the air' so make sure that you retrieve and re-bait and re-cast as swiftly as possible.
10. Feed to your bites but keep the feed going in. If the bites are slow to come then reduce the amount of fed but NOT the regularity of your feeding.
Good luck and let us know how you get on.