Category Archives: Sports Contests and Promotions

Sports contests and promotions for every business, from basketball half-court shots to football perfect punts into the bed of a pickup truck.

Baseball Contests and Promotions

Are you a college/university or professional baseball team looking to not only increase fan attendence, and generate some major excitement in the process? Now is the perfect time to step up to the plate and check out Odds On’s winning line-up of grand prize baseball promotions, which can be insured up to $1,000,000.

Ready to knock one right out of the park this season? Check out a few of our favorite ideas…

1.) Homer Hole Baseball Promotion
Homer Holes are a great, cost-effective way of generating excitement among your fans! Simply place a sign/template past the wall of the outfield. If a big hitter ends up knocking the ball through the hole cut in the template, a preselected fan will win your grand prize and Odds On Promotions will be there to write the check! Some ideas on how to pre-qualify your fan(s) consist of a t-shirt toss, lucky seat or raffle drawing. The choice is strictly up to you!

2.) Hit for the Cycle Baseball Promotion
Easy as 1-2-3! First (1), choose the game or series. Next (2), wait to see if your star player hits a single, double, triple and a home run. Lastly (3), if they do, then one extremely lucky fan will score a new ride, paid for by Odds On Promotions! This is the perfect opportunity to get your local Honda or Harley-Davidson dealership involved as the sponsor of the promotion!

3.) Grand Slam Inning Baseball Promotion
Not only an ideal promotion to insure all season long, but also a great way of keeping your fans in the stands late in the game! Simply pick an inning geared for excitement. If any member of the home team hits a Grand Slam, a randomly selected fan leaves a winner! On a tight budget? Cut the cost of the prize insurance by choosing the fourth batter as your lucky star of the game.

Interested in any of the above baseball contests? Have a promotion idea of your own? Give Odds On Promotions a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote! You can also obtain a copy of our Top 6 Baseball Promotions PDF by emailing us! Wanting to insure a promotion for a different sport? No problem! Odds On has a variety of other sports promotions for you to browse through!

$25,000 Scoreboard Payoff Pull Tab Promotion

Attention radio stations! Check out this pull tab promotion that you’re sure to love! Looking to team up with a sponsor (or perhaps, multiple sponsors) to draw a crowd to one of your live appearances? Check out what this radio station in Virginia is doing to drive traffic to multiple locations!

As part of their Monday Night Football live appearance packages, the station is giving sports bars owners the chance to make one of their patrons $25,000 richer, using Odds On’s Scoreboard Payoff Pull Tab cards!

Here’s how it works: All season long, a Monday Night Football party will be taking place at a different sports bar in the area. The first 100 customers to arrive each Monday night will receive a pulltab card, featuring a set of numbers for each quarter of that night’s game. If the last digit of each team’s score matches three quarters, they’ll win an instant $1,000. If they match all four, the lucky patron will score $25K, paid for by Odds On Promotions!

Odds On’s Scoreboard Payoff Pull Tab cards are cost-effective and simple for contestants to use! For a free, no-obligation quote on a promotion like this, feel free to give us a call at 888-827-2249… or email us for more information!

Winter Fundraising Promotions for Non-Profits

Looking to generate some additional funds for your cause this winter season? Odds On Promotions has a variety of different winter fundraising promotions that will help you achieve your fundraising goals… so bundle up and get ready to take some notes!

Ice Fishing
So you think fishing tournaments can only be held during the spring and/or summertime? Guess again! With an ice fishing promotion, you can still hold your fundraising fishing tournament regardless of the season (if your location/climate allows for it, of course). Feel free to charge people $X to get in on the excitement of possibly winning up to a $1,000,000 prize, compliments of Odds On! From weight match promotions to tagged fish promotions, we insure it all! Don’t necessarily want to insure a fishing-related promotion at your event? No sweat! Check out our scratch cards and our Lucky Envelopes promotion!

Poker Run
One of our most popular winter fundraising promotions! That’s right — a poker run promotion can even be held in the dead of winter, by using a snow machine, or even skis! Have your poker run contestants drive/ski to all 5 sponsor locations pick up their cards and at the final stop, have contestants enter their 5-card hand into Odds On’s Lucky Hand Poker Verification machine. If their hand matches our preselected winning hand, they’ll win up to $1,000,000 and Odds On will write the check! And remember, the best part of any fundraising promotion is that you decide how much you’d like to charge your participants!

Ice Melt Prediction
Take notes from this rotary club in Colorado and let your contestants make the call as to how long (down to the very second) they think it will take for a particular structure to fall through the ice next Spring. This winter, you’ll have contestants write down the day and time, down to the second, they think the “ice” will melt. You’ll reward the top 3-10 people who come the closest with a secondary prize and the chance to win a giant insured prize by entering their “lucky time” (XX hours, XX minutes, XX seconds) into Odds On’s handheld verification unit. If any of your qualifier’s times match the lucky pre-selected winning time they’ll win up to $1,000,000 and Odds On will pay out the prize! Odds On can help you adjust this promotion for any body of water that freezes … just give us a call today.

Need more ideas for winter fundraising promotions? We love to brainstorm, so give us a call today at 888-827-2249… or email us for a free, no-obligation quote! Have another idea other than what’s listed on this blog post and/or on our website? Let us know!

RBC Decathlon Insures Football Target Toss

Mark Rubin, Wall Street’s Best Athlete, raised $9,438 for pediatric cancer research.

On July 29, 2012, Wall Street came together at Columbia University’s Wien Stadium to raise money for the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and to crown Wall Street’s Best Athlete during The RBC Decathlon with a football target toss.

The RBC Decathlon, which recognizes and rewards fundraising alongside athletic prowess, gave qualifying participants the chance to prove their skills in such events as pull-up, bench-press and the 40-yard dash. Adding to the excitement, one lucky decathlete even got the chance to toss a football and win a $170,000 Aston Martin Vantage convertible, courtesy of Aston Martin Long Island.

In the Aston Martin Long Island Football Throw, each competitor was given 3 tosses and were scored based upon both distance and accuracy of their shots. For example, a 50-yard throw that landed 5 yards from The Decathlon’s target would have been recorded as a 45-yard throw. The decathlete with the longest toss, Michael Bissmeyer, won the the chance to throw the football through a target opening and win the Aston Martin. While Bissmeyer didn’t quite have the perfect spiral, he did head home with bragging rights for having the longest, most accurate toss of the day.

Of course the really big news from this event was how much money was raised for the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center! The RBC Decathalon raised a very impressive $1.278 million to support pediatric cancer research.

“To incorporate a game-of-chance as a component to this fundraising event elevates the competition and level of intrigue. Working with Odds On Promotions and Zak is great; the process is simple and straightforward,” notes Dave Maloney, Executive Producer of the RBC Decathlon.

For more information on this football target toss, be sure to check out The Decathlon’s Facebook page… and if you’re interested in insuring a football target toss of your own, feel free to give Odds On Promotions a call today for a free, no-obligation quote at 888-827-2249. You can also email us at any time.

$10K Multi-Contestant Pass Punt & Kick Promotion

Colleges & Universities: Looking to increase excitement at your next big game? This University in the Northeast did just that at their football fanfest event for students and season ticket holders by insuring a fabulous multi-contestant Pass Punt & Kick football promotion!

Here’s how it worked: On the specified promotion date, three fans were drawn at random via registration forms to come down and participate in the progressive Pass Punt & Kick promotion. All 3 contestants threw (passed) the football, starting from behind the back line of the end zone. Then, starting from behind the exact spot where the previous pass hit the ground or crossed a sideline out of bounds, the top two contestants punted the football towards the same end zone. Finally, the top contestant kicked a field goal through the goal posts at the opposite end of the field from where the sequence began.

If the contestant successully made the field goal, they would have been be awarded $10,000… and Odds On Promotions would have cut the check! While there was no winner, a fabulous time was still had by all. Check out the recap on their website!

Interested in running a promotion like this, where multiple fans can have a chance to win big during your next big game and/or fanfest event? Give Odds On a call today at 888-827-2249 for a free, no-obligation quote… or email us with any questions!

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